Sentences with phrase «judges recuse»

I noted a few days ago efforts to mandate judges recuse in instances where a party, attorney, or law firm contributed to the judge's campaign.

He was arraigned by Lockport City Judge William Watson, who was assigned the case after all of the Niagara Falls judges recused themselves.

The Hamburg man facing charges for posting a sign opposing the state's gun control law will get another day in court after a second town judge recused himself in the case.

The case was transferred to Riverhead Town Justice Court — where Judge Richard Ehlers presided Tuesday — after each of the Southold judges recused themselves from the case.

Watson, who received the case after all Falls judges recused themselves, ordered Scott to perform 75 hours of community service.

And you're not taking about a judge recusing himself from a case.

The judge who authored the opinion was brought in from neighboring DeKalb County after all Fulton County judges recused themselves because the county was a defendant.

More than the precise scene of the «Sicilian» one - finger salute, however, is the fact that it was given at all to litigants who might suggest that a judge recuse himself.

The first occurs when one of the parties to the case either makes a formal motion or suggests informally that the judge recuse herself.

Even so, most of those biases are not so extreme that it makes sense to try and have the judge recused.

Judge Laser, sitting by special appointment from the Arkansas Supreme Court after all of the 20th Judicial District judges recused, noted that this was «one decision [he would] rather not make.»

Lord Pannick QC had written a newspaper article criticising Smith J's handling of an unrelated case involving British Airways, in which the judge recused himself from the case after complaining about losing his luggage on a flight home from Florence.

Not exact matches

The US District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

Her appearance Thursday before Pakistan's Supreme Court was put off when one of the three judges in the case recused himself.

I have also filed a complaint against Tony Jones» attorney and the family court judge (is she the attorney's former law partner and if so why didn't she recuse herself from this case?).

In the legal system, not only are judges supposed to recuse themselves when they have doubts about their ability to be objective; they are also supposed to recuse themselves when the public might have doubts about their ability to be impartial.

This is why judges are supposed to recuse themselves when they know one of the parties involved in a case, or when they have an economic interest that might be affected by the outcome.

Two more McHenry County judges have recused themselves from hearing the case of a lawsuit to settle the ownership of the Crystal Lake lake bed.

To get the warrant, the approval of Rosenstein (deputy AG), the head of the DOJ criminal division, the US Attorney for SDNY (though he recused himself from this for some reason, so whoever substituted for him), and a federal magistrate judge or district judge are required.

An important caveat is that a new justice will generally recuse from any case in which that person previously played a role either as an attorney in a firm or office that was handling the case at the time the justice was working there, or as a lower court judge.

He said the judge had recused herself in past matters involving the board of education.

Trump has come under fire for suggesting that Judge Gonzalo Curiel «should have recused himself» from the fraud case against the presumptive Republican nominee's now defunct Trump University.

Two other cases were rescheduled because judges had to recuse themselves, due to potential conflicts of interest, and there was not a quorum of judges to hear the cases.

City Court Judge James Cecile said he recused himself because he has known Conner for 25 or 30 years and because Conner worked on his campaign and those of his family members.

Cecile said he remembers a few instances where charges were lodged against relatives of a judge or a former city court employee, causing all the local judges to recuse themselves.

It's not unusual for an individual judge to recuse himself or herself from a case, said Rick Trunfio, chief assistant district attorney.

Harrieta Jane Akweley Quaye, the judge presiding over the fraud case involving the National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Adams, has recused herself.

Stevens supported his argument by citing Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., [39] where the Court held that $ 3 million in independent expenditures in a judicial race raised sufficient questions about a judge's impartiality to require the judge to recuse himself in a future case involving the spender.

Hevesi's lawyer had asked the judge to recuse himself due to conflict of interest.

Trump implied Saturday that the Trump University lawsuit filed against him by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman may have been a conspiracy involving President Barack Obama, and also suggested he might ask that the judge in the case — who is Hispanic — recuse himself.

The Albany judge agreed to take the case after judges in Rensselaer County recused themselves from the politically explosive investigation.

Associate Judge Leslie Stein, a former City Court judge who joined the panel last month, recused herself MoJudge Leslie Stein, a former City Court judge who joined the panel last month, recused herself Mojudge who joined the panel last month, recused herself Monday.

All six judges in an Alabama county have recused themselves from presiding over the lawsuit filed by failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore against some of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

It's a misdemeanor, delayed for almost a year with two judges having recused themselves.»

Judge denies Dallas County Republican Party's motion to recuse Judge Eric Moyé from hearing the disqualification case of Senator Royce West and other democratic candidates!

A Rensselaer County judge has appointed Albany County District Attorney David Soares as special prosecutor in the criminal case against former Troy police union president Aaron Collington, after two other prosecutors recused themselves from the matter.

Brooklyn Federal Judge Roslynn Mauskopf recused herself Monday from presiding over the suit because she is a close personal friend of the former federal judge, Barbara Jones, who served on the bench in the Southern District of New York for 16 years before leaving to become a partner at a white shoe law Judge Roslynn Mauskopf recused herself Monday from presiding over the suit because she is a close personal friend of the former federal judge, Barbara Jones, who served on the bench in the Southern District of New York for 16 years before leaving to become a partner at a white shoe law judge, Barbara Jones, who served on the bench in the Southern District of New York for 16 years before leaving to become a partner at a white shoe law firm.

Awards A controversy emerged just a day before the National Book Awards ceremony as author / blogger Janice Harayda suggested that Kathi Appelt, a judge in the Young People» s category, should recuse herself because finalist David Small had illustrated her novel.

Ten judges will hear the case en banc (Chief Judge Garland has recused himself due to his nomination to the Supreme Court).

It is standard practice for a judge with $ or family interests in a company to recuse himself from being judge on a case regarding that company.

Defendants» attorneys should demand that any judge that uses anything that emits greenhouse gases should be forced to recuse himself.

Stroud declined to recuse himself from the case and suggested Ripley was judge - shopping in a bid to get his client a better decision.

Milanes initially filed his lawsuit in federal court in Puerto Rico, where he also filed a motion to recuse all the district's judges and asked for appointment of an outside judge to hear the case.

Answer: No, sometimes every judge serving on a federal appellate court finds it necessary to recuse themself from an appeal pending in their court, and federal appellate judges serving on a neighboring circuit will be assigned to sit by designation to resolve the appeal.

Kaplan also disagreed with Den Hollander's argument that the judge should recuse himself because he is a Columbia graduate.

Ripley said he was pleased with the Supreme Court decision, adding that it's unusual for a judge to be recused from a case that way.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority has rejected a petition from a group of retired judges seeking rules requiring judges and justices to recuse themselves from cases involving significant donors...

Therein, I wrote: «In my experience, some federal appellate judges will be more reluctant to recuse where the recusal is triggered by an amicus than if the same grounds for recusal involve a party to the appeal.»

Among the new rules is a provision that requires judges to recuse themselves from hearing cases where the judge knows or learns that a party, a party's lawyer, or the law firm of a party's lawyer has made...