Sentences with phrase «jurists on»

The caliber of jurists on the Committee is also motivating for law students seeking to gain a better understanding of why judicial independence is a significant issue.

Mark Hamblett has the story at the New York Law Journal, and here's a link to the opinion, Byrne v. Rutledge, authored by a panel consisting of three of the four female jurists on the court — Judges Amalya Kearse, Reena Raggi, and Debra Livingston (this fact mentioned for purposes of trivia only; I am not suggesting that the gender makeup of the panel had any bearing on the outcome of the case, so calm down).

On Blackprof, Adrien Wing laments the message sent by halving the number of women jurists on the Supreme Court.

Judge Jones was one of the most respected jurists on the federal bench and remains one of the most respected lawyers in the city of New York.»

Gorsuch was generally seen as one of the more moderate and less provocative jurists on Trump's docket of potential nominees, and the Senate — Schumer included — voted unanimously to confirm him to Colorado's 10th Circuit Court in 2006.

Having a jurist on the Court that is a member of the LGBTQ community has been long overdue and further shows the State's commitment to ensuring all New Yorkers are represented,» Glick said in a statement.

This short article, written by a long - time jurist on the Arkansas Supreme Court on the occasion of four new judges being appointed to that Court, presents a general outline on opinion writing.

The first use of this word with this meaning was in Roman law, where it indicated the opinion of a jurist on a given question, expressed in written or in oral responsa.

Judge Richard Posner, the formidable jurist on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, recently published in the legal journal «Green Bag» a delightfully readable two - part article: «What is Obviously Wrong With the Federal Judiciary, Yet Eminently Curable.»

Not exact matches

From then on, jurists have appealed to the idea of a «living Constitution» to explain how the document retains relevance and authority despite the Supreme Court's having enslaved it to the changing desires of the electorate.

Also, over the centuries Islamic jurists never agreed on the specifics of modest dress for women.

The Maudoodi school, on the other hand, accepts only the Qur» an and the Hadith as the infallible sources of law and does not regard the decisions of the medieval jurists as binding in all cases.

There are three problems with the current ill - tempered attack on capitalism by Ernst - Wolfgang Böckenförde, distinguished German jurist.

Albert Camus's essay «Reflections on the Guillotine» cites a 19th - century French jurist's application of the law of probability to the chance of a judicial error with a result of one innocent man's being condemned in every 257 criminal cases.

It is obvious that such disputes touch the very core of Islam, and it is no wonder that the Muslim theologians and jurists became the bitterest enemies of the Sufis and fought them on all fronts for centuries.

Most legislators, jurists, politicians, journalists, and businessmen today draw heavily on the social sciences for a better understanding of social structures, processes, and possibilities.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a distinguished jurist and professor of law, will speak on the importance of Catholic schools for the Church and society - at - large in a secular culture.

The essay by the distinguished jurist and constitutional scholar Robert H. Bork on «lawless law» was an important part of that symposium, and he returns to that subject in a comprehensive and devastating article in the New Criterion, titled «Adversary Jurisprudence.»

The document claims that «legal scholars and international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of preemption on the existence of an imminent threat — most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies, and air forces preparing to attack.»

Centered on the university there, it included both Protestant and Catholic theologians, but the core group was made up of the economists Walter Eucken (1891 — 1950), Constantin von Dietze (1891 — 1973), and Adolf Lampe (1897 — 1948), the jurists Franz Böhm (1895 — 1977) and Erik Wolf (1902 — 1977), and the historian Gerhard Ritter (1888 — 1967).

It is cited amongst other places in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam issued in 1981 on the initiative of the Islamic Council of Europe, by Pope Benedict XVI in his lecture at the University of Regensburg, and then in thefollowing Open Letter to him from authoritative Muslim theologians and jurists.

A great many writings on this theme are extant, some by jurists or historians — who tried to associate their position with a Christian point of view — others by politicians.

Comment on this seems unnecessary in view of Pius XII's pronouncement to the Italian jurists.

So, this is 2017: A few days after issuing an incompetently executed, morally dubious, and in many ways misguided executive order on immigrants and refugees, the president nominated an outstanding and unassailable jurist to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.

Over the years Judge Taylor has been a jurist of flinty scrupulousness, particularly in his handling of early civil rights cases, and he has cast a clear eye on an astounding array of disputes.

«During her time on the bench, Justice Abdus - Salaam earned the respect of all who appeared before her as a thoughtful, thorough, and fair jurist.»

NIgeria Politics Online gathered that the court was informed on Monday about the jurist's death and the movement of his corpse to the Garki hospital.

This post originally appeared on the website of the New Jurist, an international law magazine.

The president will announce his nominee to the Supreme Court today Wednesday, just over a month after the death of conservative jurist Antonin Scalia left a vacancy on the bench.

Justice Onnoghen was said to have delivered a condolence message on behalf of himself, his family and the Nigerian Judiciary to the late jurist's family and the people of Kano State.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas said «Sheila Abdus - Salaam was a groundbreaking jurist whose distinguished service on the Court of Appeals, the New York State Supreme Court, as a public defender and public servant made our communities stronger and more just.»

Schumer said he decided to vote «no» on Gorsuch, and will encourage fellow Democrats to do the same, because he thinks the 10th Circuit Court jurist has a «deep - seated conservative ideology» and lacks «a strong independent backbone.»

A court clerk has filed a federal suit that charges former top Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith McMahon «conspired» with her husband, the borough's district attorney, to judge shop on narcotics cases to make sure prosecutors got a sympathetic jurist.

But on Friday, the Assembly unveiled a plan with a peculiar benchmark: It would allow legislators to earn 40 percent of the annual salary of New York State Supreme Court justices, which starts at $ 174,000, though some jurists earn more.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara will join a distinguished panel at the fourth annual Jurist in Residence program at The College of Saint Rose in Albany on Thursday, Oct. 6.

Schumer alluded to all of this in his critique of Gorsuch tonight, suggesting this cast a negative light on the jurist's ability to disentangle his views from those of the president who nominated him.

BY ANDY HUMM Justice Doris Ling - Cohan, a distinguished jurist and champion of the rights of tenants, immigrants, and LGBT people, was re-nominated by acclamation for a 14 - year term to the New York State Supreme Court by delegates to Manhattan's County Democratic Judicial Convention on September 22.

Lazarus pointed to Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as an example of a jurist who «is not ready to give EPA a lot of deference if they're taking language which was crafted at one time and trying to push it at the edges to deal with a problem of another time, like climate change.»

It will be increasingly necessary in HR that there are people with new knowledge, not so based on what is traditional from social areas, jurists, lawyers, psychologists, sociologists, etc., but from other profiles: Data experts, mathematicians... it will be much more interdisciplinary.

Srinivasan's views on education issues are not well known, but he is widely touted as a brilliant and pragmatic jurist.

The appellate judges have now tossed out anything relating to Mann's original fraudulent complaint, including Judge Combs - Greene's unbelievably careless ruling in which the obtuse jurist managed to confuse the defendants, and her subsequent ruling in which she chose to double - down on her own stupidity.

Filling Supreme Court vacancies with jurists who believe in our Constitution, repealing and replacing ObamaCare, reforming the politicized IRS, DOJ, and FBI, immigration issues, and fixing the VA and incomprehensible tax code are all high on every list.

That's exactly the 17th Century time warp scenario that played out last week on the Senate floor as Chief Inquisitor Sheldon Whitehouse (D, RI) and 18 fellow jurists -LSB-...]

And the litigation over who should pay these costs will hinge on how jurists today read this kind of document from the past — along with any more evidence yet to emerge from these lawsuits.

Gertner says judges are too often silent on issues they should publicly address, such as how federal sentencing guidelines have led to what she and other jurists consider unreasonably long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenders.

While Moveon.org is recruiting signatures for a petition against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, and USA Today is reporting how allegedly popular this previously popularly unheard - of jurist has become overnight (hat - tip to Jim Lindgren, the source of both links), Roberts keeps on... working.

On the other hand, a Manitoba judge said the Flores decision was a «must - read» and «another excellent piece of work by one of Canada's finest criminal law jurists.»

I also wrote a formal paper on the topic, although I am not a jurist so I believe Hart, Biagoli and Suber provide the most extensive work.

Yesterday, the WSJ Law Blog linked out to an Atlanta Journal - Constitution article about the state of Georgia's seemingly league - leading run of recent scandalous behavior on the part of its jurists.

I was asking from a jurist's point of view, I am not a jurist but I was working on formalising institutions.