Sentences with phrase «judicial opinions»

There is empirical evidence that judicial opinions cite law review articles less often now than in earlier decades.

A precious few scholars read judicial opinions from first word to last; and apparently no one is reading law review articles any longer.

Part I explains the various ingredients found in a typical judicial opinion, and is the most essential section of the essay.

It explains what judicial opinions are, how they are structured, and what you should look for when you read them.

I guess what I'm getting at is that the density of relevant information content in judicial opinions varies by more than an order of magnitude.

The same is true when reading a lengthy judicial opinion.

Nor does he have colleagues on an appellate panel who can edit his drafts of judicial opinions and offer their guidance.

His thought - provoking argument is fodder for seminars and judicial opinion writing classes.

They learn to read judicial opinions, analyze the law, and then apply the law to a set of facts.

But some version of that doctrine is needed, or we will have to get very used to (a) injustices, as interpreted by the society we live in from time to time, and (b) more attempts to amend the Constitution to improve the wording and to avoid the consequences of judicial opinion as out of step with its times as the SCC was in 1928 (where no doubt it spoke for the values of a good portion of society, even then.)

By combing through tens of thousands of published judicial opinions with the help of 17 law students and three undergraduates, using search terms such as «brain disorder,» «biological,» and «CT scan,» however, Farahany's team found that use of such evidence is growing for a wide range of violations including robbery, fraud, and drug possession.

Coverage includes judicial opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court (1754 - present), Federal Circuits (1924 - present), Board of Tax Appeals (vols.

With all of the hype surrounding Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it should come as no surprise that Star Wars references are seeping into judicial opinions.

Answers can come in the form of passages from judicial opinions annotated by our users.

Lawyers might be embarrassed to explain to their clients why they have billed additional fees for court - ordered efforts at cooperation, or why a published judicial opinion contains a requirement that lawyers read something that sounds more like All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten than a professional exhortation.

Technology assisted review, aka predictive coding, sprang into prominence in 2012, when the first judicial opinions endorsed its use.

In that capacity, she drafted judicial opinions pertaining to all phases of civil litigation.

This Act covers the California Constitution, statutes and codes, but not judicial opinions.

Moreover, in holding that a statute prohibiting aliens from being imported for labor was not intended to prevent a church from hiring a foreign Christian minister, the Court quoted approvingly from two previous judicial opinions showing «we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity» and «the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania.»

«In spite of this policy, employees working on publicly financed projects are presently receiving the prevailing wage due to judicial opinions which have undermined the law's original intent.

More typical is a definition and description by judicial opinion like that in United States v. United Shoe Machine Corp..

It was not long after that when U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued the first - ever judicial opinion approving the use of TAR, Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe.

Among e-discovery practitioners, it was a major milestone last year when U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe, the first judicial opinion expressly approving the use of technology - assisted review.

«The intelligence court should not be deciding important constitutional issues in secret judicial opinions issued after secret hearings at which only the government is permitted to appear.»

We're doing a decent job of that in Canada as our various jurisdictions make their legislation and judicial opinions increasingly available in digitized formats and CanLII facilitates access to these sources.

Students will also practice basic lawyering skills to provide a taste of what they would do in law school or as lawyers, including reading and interpreting constitutional provisions, statutes, or regulations, reading and understanding judicial opinions, and mapping out and making basic forms of legal arguments.

Posner's account of teaching judicial opinion writing provides a striking example of his effort to conscript law students into what we might call, keeping in mind his slight resemblance to Emperor Palpatine, the Posnerian Clone Wars.

Between 2005 and 2012, more than 1585 U.S. published judicial opinions describe the use of neurobiological evidence by criminal defendants to shore up their defense, according to a study published last week in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences by legal scholar Nita Farahany of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues.

In Gutierrez - Brizuela, the question was whether, in the context of obscure Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) regulations, agencies can overturn judicial opinions retroactively.

«Adding law review citations to judicial opinions helps us rank search results more intelligently, for example, giving a relevance boost to cases that aren't cited by courts, but are cited by law review articles.

Certain legal writing «experts» suggest that all citations be placed in footnotes in order to make judicial opinions more readable for the general public.

Just what is «argle - bargle,» and why would any appellate justice — much less one of Justice Scalia's stature — use such a phrase in a momentous judicial opinion?