Sentences with phrase «judicial opinions describe»
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.
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The decision reversed an opinion by the lower court that the Wikipedia entry could be admitted under the provision that describes the type of material appropriate for judicial notice.
Sullivan observes that the use of «disgruntled» to describe employees is creeping beyond defense counsel's briefs and into judicial opinions.
These results have unsettling implications for the growing empirical literature that uses opinions to describe judicial behavior.
Throughout the article, she uses examples to describe and illustrate how judicial voice is a powerful and important analytical tool that can aid legal readers in discovering the meaning of judicial opinions.
On so grave a subject as this, I feel obliged to say that, in my opinion, such an exertion of judicial power transcends the limits of the authority of the court as described by its repeated decisions, and as I understand, acknowledged in this opinion of the majority of the court.
Also in this section (pages 7 - 9 of the slip opinion), the Court applied what I would describe a «realistic litigator» analysis (which Justice Scalia often employs to reject claims of «future bad law» effects) to habeas lawyers» likely moves, and expressed the majority's «doubt that any more judicial time will be wasted» than would be the case under the dissent's alternative vision.