Sentences with phrase «judicial districts use»

Many judicial districts use driver licensure or voter registration lists, or both, to find jurors that reside in the district.

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Judge Barbara Rothstein, a visiting U.S. District Judge from the Western District of Washington state and past director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C., offered a reality check on how science is used in the courtroom.

Alexandria, Va. (November 24, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA), joined by the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB), filed a «friend of the court» (amicus) brief in the First Judicial District Court of Nevada in the case of Lopez v. Schwartz, urging the Court to grant a preliminary injunction to halt the pre-registration process Nevada has initiated to use public funds to provide savings accounts for private education.

The Los Angeles Unified School District filed court papers Tuesday asserting that a new tentative agreement with the teachers union has satisfied judicial orders to use state standardized test scores in instructor evaluations.

(Washington, DC)-- Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit on December 2, 2015, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking records of communications from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials regarding methodology for collecting and interpreting data used in climate models (Judicial...

The author, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, addresses the audiences for opinions and explains judges» use of rhetoric in judicial opinions as a tool to stay within the constraints placed upon them by law, yet have some room to develop the law in certain ways.

In 2014, the Federal Judicial Center surveyed district court judges on the use of social media in the courtroom.

A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed a set of model jury instructions for district judges to help deter jurors from using cell phones, computers or other electronic technologies during their jury service.

The motion was denied by the Southern District of New York and affirmed by the Second Circuit, but the Second Circuit noted that the issues raised had «considerable resonance because the fairness and integrity of the courts can be compromised by inadequate constraint on a monitor's aggressive use of judicial power.»

The Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements (along with 13 co-sponsors) is recommending the House endorse use of bipartisan commissions to consider and recommend nominees to fill vacancies in the federal district courts and the U.S. Court of Appeals.

She recently represented a judicial candidate in which the process used to count ballots was challenged on constitutional bases before a federal district and circuit court, and was the subject of litigation in the Ohio Supreme Court as well.

This report details the judicial nominating commissions used to select supreme court justices in 30 states and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger, No. 15 - 1406 (SCOTUS April 18, 2017), clarified the standard to be used by district judges in imposing «inherent power of the court to control judicial process» sanctions as far as setting an appropriate amount of sanctions, reversing a $ 2.7 million sanctions award in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Goodyear after a case was settled.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation's judges in a Jan. 28 memo that the new jury instructions «address the increasing incidence of juror use, of such devices as cellular telephones or computers, to conduct research on the internet or communicate with others

This measure will avoid a multiplicity of proceedings in several judicial districts in relation to the same company and fraudulent practices, and hopefully use government resources more efficiently and lower costs.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson of Kansas, the chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, told the nation's judges in a Jan. 28 memo that the new jury instructions «address the increasing incidence of juror use, of such devices as cellular telephones or computers, to conduct research on the internet or communicate with others about cases».

The Lex Machina Copyright Litigation Report breaks down the thousands of copyright cases filed in the last 5 years to showcase how this data can be used to inform litigation strategy: from detailed analysis of different judicial districts useful to forum planning, to timing data on trial and injunctions that can drastically improve budgeting, as well as top parties and firms for firm marketing and outside counsel selection.

For her, the site is a lesson in judicial politics: «Voters in the 10th District should remember, as our mothers used to say, that you are known by the company you keep, or kept.»

The admonition requires the Galveston Judge of the 405th Judicial District to obtain four hours of instruction with a mentor regarding the proper and ethical use of social media by judges.

Judge Howard Harrison is one of the Senior Judges on the 15th Judicial District of Florida, described as those judges who ``... are used for lengthy trials or special category cases; educational, professional or personal absence of a presiding judge; vacancies; and cases requiring out - of - circuit judges.»