Sentences with phrase «justice of the supreme court just»

Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson spoke of her personal friendship with McLachlin, who was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court just three months after Clarkson had been named to her post, and the two became friends.

Not exact matches

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

Olson also invoked «fundamental rights» and was queried by Justice Scalia as to just exactly when it became unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage: 1791 with the Bill of Rights, 1868 with the 14th Amendment, or some other date, perhaps after the Court declined in 1971 to review a Minnesota Supreme Court decision upholding opposite - sex marriage requirements?

The reporter says that while «legal experts said the First Amendment grants Supreme Court justices, just like any other U.S. citizen, the right to speak their mind,» other experts insist that «Scalia's comments were difficult to reconcile with his judicial obligation to regard citizens of all religious persuasions — whether believer or unbeliever, Christian or non-Christian — as equals under the law.»

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a coucourt in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a couCourt that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver just formally announced his new counsel, state Supreme Court Justice James Yates, who was first appointed to the bench as a Court of Claims Judge by then Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1992.

Kennedy was declared the winner of the race by just 139 votes after extended court proceedings before State Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. Glocourt proceedings before State Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. GloCourt Justice Joseph R. Glownia.

Steve Mirsky: That reminds me of one of the Supreme Court justices said, after meeting FDR after he'd just been elected I believe, «He does not have a first rate intellect but he does have a first rate temperament.»

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

RBG One of the great services that this clear - eyed and admiring documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides is to emphasize not just her work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got tCourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides is to emphasize not just her work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got tcourt but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there.

For an assessment of one such case that could help states clarify matters on school vouchers — which the Supreme Court considered just days after Justice Gorsuch's arrival on the bench — check out this issue's editor's letter.

In the collection's titular novella, he does just that as he conjures the voice of an elderly man in decline who used to be a vibrant county supreme court justice but is now limited by his ailing body, his only interactions with the world in the form of his cheerful Jamaican caretaker, Sally.

According to Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn, the authors of Competing Approaches to Predicting Supreme Court Decision Making, if they are provided with just a few variables concerning the politics of a case, they can predict how the US Supreme Court justices will vote.

And yet the Supreme Court's temporary stay of the administration's Clean Power Plan — the last decision of global consequence of the right - leaning court on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate gCourt's temporary stay of the administration's Clean Power Plan — the last decision of global consequence of the right - leaning court on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate gcourt on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate goals.

States aren't just the laboratories of democracy, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said.

Just days after his first choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest courtcourt.

1) Question: My buddy just bet me $ 1,000 that a random stranger of my choosing would be unable to name a single sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice.

At the age of just 39, Judge He is a Supreme Court Justice, and a prolific author, social media user and blogger.

In the BC Supreme Court, just like in the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice, people are required to have a case conference before they can do much of anything else.

I think that the Supreme Court of Canada has got it just about right, independently contributing to justice and democracy, while avoiding hubris and exercising restraint.

Just one day after federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said filling vacancies at the Supreme Court of Canada is the government's top priority, the Federal Court's chief justice announced he will step down on SeJustice Minister Rob Nicholson said filling vacancies at the Supreme Court of Canada is the government's top priority, the Federal Court's chief justice announced he will step down on Sejustice announced he will step down on Sept. 30.

In «Justices Turning More Frequently to Dictionary, and Not Just for Big Words,» Adam Liptak wrote about the considerable frequency with which U.S. Supreme Court Justices refer to dictionary definitions in their opinions, much to the concern — not to say derision — of linguists and lexicologists.

Two — justices Sandra Ballance and Jane Dardi — now sit on the bench of the British Columbia Supreme Court and one — Gordon B. MacRae — has just retired.

Speaking to the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Justice last week, Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, said: «To our surprise and gratification and to some of my more traditional colleagues» slight embarrassment, we learnt last year that the UK Supreme Court had been awarded four and half stars out of a maximum five by Trip Advisor — which I have just checked we still maintain.»

In fact, Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin recently made a similar argument, telling the Toronto Star that ``... the difficulty we have with racial minorities, indigenous people is that we're just beginning this process of getting the judges in place on the trial benches and so on.»

In reasons for judgement released today Madam Justice Dillon of the BC Supreme Court awarded an injured Plaintiff just over $ 200,000 in damages as a result of a «hit and run» accident.

In that event, either Mr. Sabourin was the directing mind behind Côté's approach to the Douglas Inquiry; or the Chair of the Council was the client, i.e., the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, the same one who just privately swore Côté into her position on the Supreme Court on December 2, 2014, not a week after Harper appointed Côté.

The «principles of fundamental justice» had been defined by the Supreme Court just thirteen years earlier.

For many of us lawyers, producing or reviewing this kind of mediocre, pedantic writing comes with the job; it's just another day at the office, to quote a Supreme Court justice who's now garnering extensive media coverage for his literary legal prose.

Just think Justices of the Supreme Court and Panels of Justices.

Yesterday was the last day on the bench for Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice John Greaney, who stepped down just four months shy of the state's mandatory retirement age of 70.

With the Supreme Court just starting its new session, Justice Scalia is continuing his precedent of generating controversy.

«The right not to be denied reasonable bail without just cause is an essential element of an enlightened criminal justice system,» wrote Justice Wagner for the Supreme Court in R. v.justice system,» wrote Justice Wagner for the Supreme Court in R. v.Justice Wagner for the Supreme Court in R. v. Antic.

And then, just this past week, the Supreme Court of Canada released a one - sentence decision that sums up the exasperation at the failings of the justice system when it comes to sexual assault.

(At that time, the famous nod to diversity was Justice Minister John Turner's nomination of Antonio Lamer to the Supreme Court, after which Mr. Turner went around telling people he had just appointed «Tony Lamer from the Italian community.»)

Justice Bale found that the issue was whether the proposed summary judgment motion was likely to provide a «proportionate, more expeditious and less expensive means to achieve a just result than going to trial», citing the Supreme Court of Canada decision in Hyrniak v. Mauldin, 2014 SCC 7.

It just dawned on me this morning that yesterday marked the one - year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decisions in Gall and Kimbrough, the two cases in which the Justices made extra clear that Booker really meant that the guidelines were to be treated as truly advisory.

To ensure the promise of a fair and just criminal justice system, it is critical that the Supreme Court, which is currently considering his request for a hearing, review Rubashkin's case.

As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during oral argument in this case, judges should be «above the fray,» and Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks were similar, to the effect that «there are things we just don't let judges do, like publish op - eds in newspapers to respond to criticism of the court's decisCourt Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during oral argument in this case, judges should be «above the fray,» and Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks were similar, to the effect that «there are things we just don't let judges do, like publish op - eds in newspapers to respond to criticism of the court's deciscourt's decisions.

«In relation to the considerations that serve to distinguish a policy decision from the operational decision, I continue to think that the four considerations referred to by Madam Justice McLachlin, as the trial judge in Just, are helpful and are unaffected by the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in that case.

Instead of just refusing to confirm nominees to fill vacancies, Congress (as a whole, not just the Senate) could pass an act reducing the size of the court, like the Judiciary Act of 1801 which cut the Supreme Court from six justices down to court, like the Judiciary Act of 1801 which cut the Supreme Court from six justices down to Court from six justices down to five.

In the post-9 / 11, but non-terrorism, case of R v Hall, the Supreme Court upheld denying bail to maintain confidence in the administration of justice, but struck down an open - ended provision that authorized denying bail «on any just cause».

Just two weeks ago Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Cromwell gave the Macfadyen Lecture, the second in the memorial series sponsored by the Scottish Council of Law Reporting.

Sworn in as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Aug. 1, Michael J. Gableman has been on the job just over two months, but he already faces his first misconduct complaint.

The average length of service of the last four Canadian Supreme Court justices to retire was just over 10 years.

One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.