Sentences with phrase «magistrate judge»

A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn gave preliminary approval to a class - action settlement in which the city agreed to pay a total of $ 5 million to 470 people who were put in solitary confinement on Rikers Island under a now - scuttled policy between Nov. 23, 2012, and Sept. 16, 2015.
An attempt by defendants to shift their costs to the plaintiff for searching electronically stored information has been denied by a federal magistrate judge in New York.
A plaque on this sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania Law School was quoted by the federal magistrate judge who freed Han Tak Lee.
Also newly added to Lex Machina is data on U.S. magistrate judges for all covered practice areas.
Given the invasive nature of the technology and scarcity of laws governing its use, Owsley, a former U.S. magistrate judge in Texas, says the lack of reliable information documenting the technology's use is particularly troubling.
Other courts have suggested that it would be preferable for the privilege review to be done by magistrate judge, and not a privilege team comprised of DOJ agents and lawyers.
Mr. Hueston previously served as a Central District of California Merit Selection Panel member to assist the U.S. District Court with the appointment and reappointment of magistrate judges.
A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday said she wanted to move swiftly in assessing claims by victims seeking a cut of a U.S. Justice Department settlement with Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc over its improper marketing of a cholesterol drug.
After a federal magistrate judge dismissed a similar lawsuit in 1999, finding the state was immune from the legal action, the western New York tribe in 2007 sent a $ 2 million bill for back tolls during a dispute with the state over cigarette taxes.
Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, lost or destroyed records and documents that likely contained evidence relevant to injury lawsuits over the medical device company's vaginal mesh implants, a federal magistrate judge concluded in a pretrial order issued Feb. 4, 2014.
A panel of three federal judges appointed federal magistrate judge Roanne Mann to implement a map.
«Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is supposed to be a reminder to us to be fast, fair and frugal,» says New York magistrate judge Francis.
On Jan. 26, a federal magistrate judge found the state's three - drug injection cocktail to be unconstitutional and stayed the next three executions.
The U.S. attorney's office suggested three candidates, all former magistrate judges from New York: Frank Maas and Theodore Katz, who are now affiliated with for - profit mediation and arbitration firm Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, and James C. Francis IV, who is currently a lecturer at City University of New York Law School.
Interns will have the opportunity to draft bench memoranda, judicial orders, and opinions on a variety of substantive matters, including motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, magistrate judge reports, and habeas corpus petitions.
In May 2014, federal magistrate judge Erin Setser wrote that the investors had «sufficiently alleged that omission of the 2005 revelation of the suspected corruption and [Wal - Mart's] 2005 and 2006 investigation rendered [Wal - Mart's] statements in the Form 10 - Q materially misleading to a reasonable investor.
Apple will submit its legal brief to the California magistrate judge in the next few days (update: it now reportedly has till next Friday).
A Brooklyn federal magistrate judge objected to the 600 objections a lawyer made during a deposition, and now the city is going to pay for it.
In a hotly anticipated decision, a Brooklyn magistrate judge ruled that prosecutors can't force the company to unlock a drug dealer's phone.
In another case, a federal magistrate judge acknowledged how security camera footage of an arrest contradicted officer testimony, writing, «The video seems to tell a different story.»
A federal magistrate judge issued seizure warrants to block Mr. Silver from access to $ 3.8 million that the speaker had spread among eight bank and asset - management accounts.
A U.S. magistrate judge overseeing the federal lawsuit recently approved the attorneys» request to pursue the unsealing.
Feldman's attorney, Robin Shellow, argued in an emergency motion filed yesterday that a previous magistrate judge had «no authority to issue an order» to require her client to decrypt his Western Digital My Book and Maxtor Black Armor hard drives.
In a unanimous opinion on April 5, a three - judge panel of the San Francisco - based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reinstated a jury award that a federal magistrate judge threw out in 2002.
April 12, 2018: Federal magistrate judge sets a new trial date: Oct. 29, 2018, in federal district court in Eugene, Oregon.
In Oregon, magistrate judge Thomas Coffin pointed out that: «[t] he government has admitted that, yes, climate change is a reality and that, yes, it's induced by human activity, and they admit that CO2 right now is at a level of 400 parts per million, which... is the highest level in millions of years.»
An American magistrate judge (sort of like a master) has ruled that a plaintiff suing a company for improperly sending a takedown notice under the DMCA has waived a number of heads of attorney - client privilege by discussing the details of her legal case too broadly by email and on a blog (Eric Goldman blog (per Venkat)-RRB-
Producer Scott Rudin offered to stage the play in a federal courthouse for the benefit of the court, but a federal magistrate judge told Rudin to instead submit a recorded version instead.
The Judicial Panel will consist of five jurists with extensive e-discovery knowledge: U.S. magistrate judges Patricia Barksdale (M.D. Fla.), Gary Jones (N.D. Fla.), William Matthewman (S.D. Fla.), Mac McCoy (M.D. Fla.), and Amanda Sansone (M.D. Fla.).
This was the warning issued last week by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a Wisconsin magistrate judge sealed her opinions in two trade secrets cases.
(A different magistrate judge sanctioned six Qualcomm attorneys in January, but Brewster vacated the sanctions in March to allow the lawyers to defend themselves, including use of the attorney - client privilege.)
In Davids v. Novartis Pharm Corp. (E.D. NY 2012), a New York magistrate judge refused to grant access to a plaintiff's private Facebook content because her public profile did not contain relevant evidence.
In West Virginia, U.S. magistrate judge Cheryl Eifert, where vaginal mesh lawsuits have been consolidated for pre-trial hearings, found that the manufacturer's Ethicon unit, which manufactures TVT Retropubic and Gynecare Prolift meshes, destroyed or lost thousands of computer files and documents about the devices going back as far as 2007.
A federal magistrate judge today ordered a woman who claimed to be a naturopathic doctor to be held pending trial on charges she defrauded patients of the Euro Med Klinic in Hoover in 2015 by lying about her name, her credentials, her experience and her license to practice medicine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert Posey and U.S. Postal Inspector Frank Dyer.
The Utah federal magistrate judge handling Mitchell's case concluded in April that the Utah Supreme Court hadn't clearly answered the question of whether lawmakers could revive expired claims.
On 4 December 2013 US magistrate judge James Francis granted US authorities a warrant, under the US» Stored Communications Act, which authorised the search and seizure of information «associated with a specified web - based e-mail account that is stored at premises owned, maintained, controlled or operated by Microsoft Corporation».
This statement has been recorded briefly on Monday, after New York's federal magistrate judge queried its effort as he pressurized the United States Department of Justice with a request to force Tim Cook's company...
The Federal Circuit recently issued a stern order (PDF) finding that an Eastern District magistrate judge had «arbitrarily refused to consider the merits» of a transfer motion.
For this purpose, the district court may use, among others, magistrate judges who have been trained to serve as neutrals in alternative dispute resolution processes, professional neutrals from the private sector, and persons who have been trained to serve as neutrals in alternative dispute resolution processes.
As the lawyer grew increasingly angry during the call, the law clerk duly wrote it all down, later reporting it to Mildred Methvin, the federal magistrate judge for whom she worked in the Western District of Louisiana.
This past weekend, a voting rights rally was held at Rev. Al Sharpton's House of Justice to denounce federal magistrate Judge Roanne Mann's congressional redistricting plan.
In U.S. v. Arzberger, a federal magistrate judge found this provision to be unconstitional.
Or it might conclude the Act doesn't apply at all — that's what a U.S. magistrate judge in Brooklyn suggested last year in another case involving iPhone encryption.
Several of its attorneys have gone on to positions in government, including Madeline Haikala, who now serves as a U.S. district judge; Jim Hughey who is now a Jefferson County circuit judge; and Gray Borden who left the firm to take a position as an assistant U.S. attorney and went on to serve as a U.S. magistrate judge.
After a magistrate judge sided with the FBI, Apple quickly responded, countering that it had no intention of helping law enforcement agents unlock the handset.
«The searches were authorized by a federal magistrate judge, who had found probable cause to believe that the premises and devices searched contained evidence, fruits, and instrumentalities of conduct for which Cohen is under criminal investigation,» the Justice Department's filing said.
High - level Justice Department officials and a magistrate judge had to conclude there was probable cause that Cohen had evidence of a federal crime, that he could not be trusted to hand over evidence voluntarily, and that there was reason to believe Cohen had voided his attorney - client privilege by «engaging in crime or fraud,» attorney Ken White writes.
A federal magistrate judge has concluded that a neo-Nazi website publisher could be held liable for the conduct of readers who carried out an anti-Semitic «troll storm» against a Montana real estate agent's family.

Phrases with «magistrate judge»

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