Sentences with phrase «judges more power to»

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Get more seats in the legislature, get more governors elected, get more judges on the bench — the path to electoral power in a democracy is pretty straightforward.

Federal judges found more problems in Texas» voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities, who former President Barack Obama set out to protect at the ballot box before leaving office.

Its hands full with restoring power, Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric utility will not need to defend a contractor's lawsuit seeking damages of more than $ 4.5 million, according to the judge in the island's financial restructuring case.

The treatment of other religions by Islam must be judged by a simple test: How did the Muslim rulers behave for more than a thousand years, when they had the power to «spread the faith by the sword»?

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

As a result of such an «epistemological break,» the power of objectivity and the «objectivity» of the powerful must be judged according to new and somehow more stringent standards.

To be more functional means the discovery of the relevance of the gospel to every human situation, to judge, challenge, broaden, vivify, and transform life through the power of God in ChrisTo be more functional means the discovery of the relevance of the gospel to every human situation, to judge, challenge, broaden, vivify, and transform life through the power of God in Christo every human situation, to judge, challenge, broaden, vivify, and transform life through the power of God in Christo judge, challenge, broaden, vivify, and transform life through the power of God in Christ.

Both views are embedded in our national history — the republican view more in the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson in its opening lines refers to «the laws of nature and of nature «s God» that stand above and judge the laws of men; and the liberal view more in the Constitution, where there is no reference to God at all, and the emphasis is upon the balancing of powers.6.

Paddy Power may think it's just 33/1 that the most insane move ever could happen, but given that Leicester City were priced at 5000/1, here's a list of things we'd judge as more likely to happen any time soon than Salah rocking up at Old Trafford...

I think at this point Didi is much more valuable because he's a left - handed hitter in a righty - heavy lineup and, with Bird up in the air health-wise, it's more important to have some lefty power in between Judge, Stanton and Sanchez.

In one sense, their use constitutes one more form of accountability, as those politicians who like to draw their moral and rhetorical power from religious traditions must do so at the cost of being judged by those very traditions.

In May 2016, Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced the former Albany power broker to 12 years in prison, fined him $ 1.75 million, and ordered that he forfeit more than $ 5 million in what the prosecution said were ill - gotten gains.

Secondly, he said that although judges were putting into effect their new powers to give indeterminate sentences under the Criminal Justice Act 2003, they were not yet using the power under that law to give more community orders «as fully as they might».

Rice also wrote to her senator, Republican Charles Fuschillo, to raise concerns about DAs losing power if judges had more sentencing discretion of drug offenders.

When those frustrations escalate to authorities with much more power, he recognizes the need to change his reactions to avoid police, truancy judges and consequences much higher on his priority list.

Will the powers - that - be continue to be more concerned with creating a testing and data system that ranks and sorts schools and educators, in the quest for the perfect industrial algorithm to judge teachers, students and schools?

In his «historic» call for «education reform», an end to teacher tenure and a disproportionate transfer of public dollars to charter schools the Governor failed to point out that (1) Connecticut already has one of the longest probationary periods for teachers in the country — four years — which gives school administrators more opportunity to judge a teacher's capability than do those in most other states and that (2) in 2010 the Legislature adopted major revisions to the teacher evaluation process that already gives Malloy's Department of Education the power to revamp how teachers are evaluated and require school administrators to actually conduct appropriate evaluations.

Drive it in a straight line and you'll get plenty of power, enough to push you back in your seat, but you may be left wanting a bit more if you were judging it on looks alone.

Now aged 40, he was recently judged in ArtReview magazine's «Power 100», to be more influential than Charles Saatchi, Christie's chief, François Pinault, or the million - dollar - a-canvas painter Gerhard Richter.

Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year's Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost - effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy's peak power needs.

To the extent that their lawsuit has focused a spotlight on how ludicrous the rating of attorneys (and judges) has become, more power to theTo the extent that their lawsuit has focused a spotlight on how ludicrous the rating of attorneys (and judges) has become, more power to theto them.

But getting back to my original question: are small - time judges more likely to abuse their power than those who play in the big leagues, such as those who sit on federal courts?

12Judicial deference to jury verdicts may have been stronger in 18thcentury America than in England, and judges» power to order new trials for excessive damages more contested.

For example, a casual perusal of the online legal research service Westlaw reveals that «mumbo jumbo» appears at least 251 times in judicial opinions.8 «Jibber - jabber» shows up just seven times (although surprisingly used by parties, rather than in statements from the court), while the more prosaic «gobbledygook» has 126 hits in the legal database.9 Believed to have been coined in 1944 by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick of Texas, «gobbledygook» has been used by everyone from political figures referring to bureaucratic doublespeak (for example, President Ronald Reagan's stinging 1985 indictment of tax law revisions as «cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to have high - priced legal and tax advisers») to judges decrying the indecipherable arguments and pleadings of the lawyers practicing before them.

Peter Henning at White Collar Crime Prof agrees that district court judges have more power, and says that defendants need to present strong sentencing evidence before the district court.

From 3 August 2009 the commission has acquired meaningful enforcement powers which should get in substantially more cash and lead to increased work for long suffering district judges.

In the digital era, as more & more of our information is handed over to corporations in order to participate in the necessities of life, I worry that these corporations, and not judges, will serve as the check on abuse of police power.

Frank Addario, a former president of the CLA, says chief justices should have more powers to tackle the small minority of problem judges.

Significantly, Hryniak also makes a decision by a motion judge to exercise his or her fact - finding powers and determine whether there is a genuine issue requiring trial more difficult to review on appeal.

The judge stated that the power of attorney was «no more than a tool which enabled the defendant to manage the sale of the property on his mother's behalf».

But my initial reaction is that it's unfortunate (but not surprising) that for both Supreme Court nominations, the president has chosen well - connected insiders with ties to the executive branch, rather than individuals who are more likely to bring a more «independent» perspective to issues of government and especially presidential power... On the other hand, I'm pleased that Miers is (a) not from an elite law school; (b) not a federal judge; and (c) spent the vast majority of her career outside the beltway.

Masters are similar to judges, only with more limited powers in terms of what orders they can make.

Because more and more judges are reading briefs on computer screens, rather than on paper, in Part 1 of this program, attendees learned how to leverage technology as well as principles of document design and web usability to maximize the persuasive power of their briefs.

Legislators can try to change who sits on the courts by expanding or contracting the number of judges on courts, and they can give themselves more power over choosing judges.

The proposals, set out in Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offenders, include: rewarding early admissions of guilt with up to 50 % reduction in sentence; increased use of restorative justice measures; introducing reforms to make offenders directly compensate victims of crime; and simplifying the sentencing framework so that judges have more discretionary powers.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

More specifically, they are seeking declarations that Québec could not, consistently with section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, grant its provincial court exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases where the amount at issue is more than $ 10 000 or any powers of judicial review over provincial administrative tribunals, because these powers are reserved for federally - appointed judMore specifically, they are seeking declarations that Québec could not, consistently with section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867, grant its provincial court exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases where the amount at issue is more than $ 10 000 or any powers of judicial review over provincial administrative tribunals, because these powers are reserved for federally - appointed judmore than $ 10 000 or any powers of judicial review over provincial administrative tribunals, because these powers are reserved for federally - appointed judges.

So an interesting problem that maybe our judicial (and former judicial) members can enlighten us on is — why judges almost NEVER use the powers that they have long possessed to sanction lawyers under Rule 11 — or more modestly, simply require them to bear the costs for unjustified litigation costs that they have imposed on others with arguments that are not substantially justified under 28 U.S.C. 1927?

Judge Sullivan could have exercised his power to reach a decision more favorable to Gura and his team, but he didn't.

David Corker felt that judges need to be more robust in using their case management powers, noting that the current disclosure regime does not require «key to the warehouse» disclosure.

More surprisingly, executive belligerence towards the judges and a determination to emaciate them of their powers has been demonstrated both in the US and the UK, the former by attempting to put detainees beyond the reach of the judges in Guantanamo Bay and the latter initiating incessant attacks on the judges for undermining the welter of government legislation.

This is not at all beyond the powers of IT folks at the moment; and word processors can be customized, if need be, to enable machine readable judgments to be crafted by judges or their assistants with no more fuss than they now encounter using Word.

The new Code of Civil Procedure puts much more case management power in the hands of judges (articles 154 and following), allowing them to take measures to expedite the file and shorten the trial length.

This is notable because the principled approach tends to place more discretionary decision - making power in the hands of trial judges.

This will give trial judges, who are closer to the action and better able to spot abusive tactics, more power to award fees.

The Chief Justice may, in writing, delegate all or any of his or her powers under section 38A to any one or more of the Judges.