Sentences with phrase «many appellate judges»

When he lost his appeal in 2011, a New Jersey appellate judge wrote, «The largest portion of Mr. Trump's fortune, according to three people who had had direct knowledge of his holdings, apparently comes from his lucrative inheritance.

The White House is also blocking new WTO appellate judges.

Among the choices for 2009 were Robert Gates, Colin Powell, appellate judge Harvie Wilkinson, historians James McPherson and Robert Caro, Emmylou Harris, Dustin Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Dame Judi Dench (honorary only, because she's a foreigner), Nelson Mandela (ditto), dance masters Bill T. Jones and Edward Villella, translator Edith Grossman, Thomas Pynchon, Tobias Wolff, and political theorist Danielle Allen.

Again, humbly Mr. Davis may have very well have been innocent, but no doubt of guilt was ever performed to the satisfaction of the 12 juniors or a panel of appellate judges.

Feinman, an appellate judge, replaces Sheila Abdus - Salaam, who died in April in what authorities believe was a suicide.

JUDGE BLOCKS BODY CAM VIDEOS» RELEASE — New York Times's Ashley Southall: «A state appellate judge issued a temporary order on Monday blocking the New York Police Department from releasing video from officers» body cameras to the public.

Ragusa «submitted evidence showing that [he] was elected chairman of the Queens County Republican Party at a Queens County Republican Party meeting held on or about Oct. 3, 2009, and that the statewide Republican Party subsequently recognized Ragusa as chairman of the Queens County Republican Party,» the appellate judges wrote in their decision Tuesday against Berney.

Speaking to NY1 Political Anchor Errol Louis, Cuomo said he will nominate appellate judge Paul Feinman to the state's Court of Appeals.

The appellate judges in Silver's case found that, under the Supreme Court's ruling, the instructions given to the jury at Silver's trial were improper and prejudicial.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors told appellate judges they should get another shot at showing that former Senate Majority Leader John Sampson embezzled about $ 400,000 from foreclosure sales — but the defense said no charges against the disgraced ex-pol should stand.

The White House is vetting Jane L. Kelly, a career public defender turned federal appellate judge, as a potential nominee for the Supreme Court.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit ruled that the definition of «official acts» had been changed by a previous Supreme Court decision in the public corruption case of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

At the end of March, a panel of appellate judges dismissed Silver's appeal, saying it's up to Caproni to decide if the documents are relevant to his impending sentencing and should become public.

Silver was convicted of using his political influence for political favors; the conviction was tossed last summer, when appellate judges in the 2nd Circuit... Continue reading →

An appellate judge in Western New York will consider reversing a temporary restraining order which among other things, prohibits the governor from vetoing a bill that stops the collocation of the region's children and adult psychiatric centers.

Currently, lawyers representing New York City are appealing an appellate judge's decision ordering the city to release a summary of substantiated complaints against Pantaleo.

Kavanagh, a former Ulsterdistrict attorney, is an appellate judge and should he be re-elected as a sitting judge would likely be reappointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

If one of the commissions fails to reach a compromise by the deadline, the process for that chamber is turned over to a panel of six appellate judges.

In asking the Court of Cassation to review the verdict, he said that the appellate judges should have held the scientists to account for failing to object to the idea of an energy discharge.

Still, as a federal appellate judge, Gorsuch has issued hundreds of opinions that offer some idea of where he might stand on health and science issues.

Fortunately, progress in stem - cell research can still continue through non-federal funds, and the prevailing zeitgeist does seem to favor an eventual nullification of the decision: Yesterday, another overreaching legal case bit the dust when an appellate judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed CERN's Large Hadron Collider risked destroying the Earth.

With Senate hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court's next associate justice.

In short, the outcome would appear to turn on the views of its newest member — a product of Catholic schools who, as Arizona Supreme Court justice Clint Bolick explains in this issue (see «Gorsuch, the Judicious Judge,» features), has interpreted the establishment clause narrowly during his tenure as an appellate judge.

Yet federal appellate judges resisted intervention, and instead showed that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), when followed to the letter, may protect school officials from liability.

Named as the nation's 15th chief justice by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969, Mr. Burger disappointed Mr. Nixon, who admired the judicial conservativism Mr. Burger had espoused as a federal appellate judge.

Obama and the Committee could compromise over a nominee such as appellate judge Sri Srinivasan, whose recent 2013 nomination to the Court of Appeals was approved on a 97 - 0 vote with strong praise from Republicans.

The unanimous decision handed down last month by a panel of three appellate judges gives LEARN 9, a...

In 2008, 22 years after the events of the earlier book, former lawyer Rusty Sabich, now a Kindle County, Ill., chief appellate judge, is again suspected of murdering a woman close to him.

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.

They are not qualified to determine scientific issues: they are politically selected, regardless of whether they are state or federal or local judges, trial or appellate judges.

[37] While Pima County Superior Court Judge James Marner had said the university did not abuse its discretion in concluding that disclosing the documents would not be in the best interests of the state, appellate Judge Joseph Howard said it was legally irrelevant what university officials thought was appropriate to disclose.

The author, Patricia Barnes, is an appellate judge with the Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribe in Nevada.

For example, when an appellate judge retires and joins a private firm, and the firm later employs the retired judge to brief an appeal to his former colleagues, the firm is partly trying to persuade the court that it should decide the case in the firm's favor because of the retired judge's established reputation, character, and credibility.

The decision might seem harsher still, since it is an example of an appellate judge who reviews a discretion - based decision of the judge below, and concludes that he would not have made the variation order himself, at first instance; but upholds the decisions and, correctly, dismisses the appeal, because it can not be said that the district judge was wrong or that his decision was outside the range of discretionary decisions that was properly open to him.

Answer: No, sometimes every judge serving on a federal appellate court finds it necessary to recuse themself from an appeal pending in their court, and federal appellate judges serving on a neighboring circuit will be assigned to sit by designation to resolve the appeal.

While the author of that article was disturbed by this fact (calling it a «crisis»), I highly doubt that anyone would seriously recommend censuring the majority of federal appellate judges for misconduct.

One Ohio appellate judge says on her profile that she is open to «career opportunities» and «business deals.»

Well, that's not a proper model for the appellate judge, either, even if those other cases aren't binding but are only persuasive.

Moreover, they have to explain almost every decision they make — many decisions can be appealed, while some trial judges and all appellate judges have to put in writing the reasons for their decisions.

Other state appellate judges I found (with the number of connections in parenthesis) were:

The ostrich is a noble animal, but it is not a proper model for the appellate judge.

To the contrary, federal appellate judges are highly respected and considered some of the brightest legal minds in the country; they did nt» secure their prestigious judgeships by being slouches.

Usually, the menu of options for an appellate judge participating in an opinion is limited: You either write the opinion, concur with it, dissent from it, or concur in part and dissent in part.

For example, the New York Times has noted that the opinions of most federal appellate judges are written by their clerks.

An important form of accountability (always for appellate judges and ALJs) is the requirement of «reasoned elaboration» (explaining legal reasons concerning how and why the outcome is what it is).

Therein, I wrote: «In my experience, some federal appellate judges will be more reluctant to recuse where the recusal is triggered by an amicus than if the same grounds for recusal involve a party to the appeal.»

A plan to impose term limits on Florida's appellate judges is set for a full House vote tomorrow and one House member has introduced over a dozen amendments to the bill.

However, a case is often won or lost on the initial presentation to the appellate judge and counsel's focus on providing succinct and poignant answers to the most difficult questions.

The Economist said it read more like «novice high - school debate speech than a ruling by a federal appellate judge.»

HJR 1 as filed limits appellate judges (Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal) to 12 consecutive years in office and prohibits them from being reappointed for 1 year after leaving office.