Sentences with phrase «new civil judge»

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Also March 20, 2018: New York state Judge Jennifer Schecter rules against Trump's lawyers» motion to dismiss the defamation case by Summer Zervos, citing the Supreme Court's ruling in Clinton v. Jones that presidents are not immune from civil suits.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

A New Jersey Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday that fraud claims against New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning in a memorabilia civil case will still go to trial.

The Giants are hoping to convince the New Jersey Superior Court judge to issue a summary judgment and avoid a civil trial.

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

The 44 - year - old politician revealed how Labour is ready to introduce new quotas for the police, judges and top civil service jobs to combat racial inequality.

The letter requested that Judge DiFiore use her constitutional authority to protect the civil rights of immigrants and uphold the sanctity of New York's courts.

Heitler, 70, the chief administrative judge for the Civil Court, also headed a special section called New York City Asbestos Litigation, or NYCAL — which Moulton will now oversee, as well.

That happened despite questions from Democrats who pointed to concerns about poor inmate medical care from a former bar association president, a judge and the New York Civil Liberties Union, which Newsday reported in May.

In March, Staten Island Judge William Garnett denied requests to release the minutes from the Eric Garner grand jury proceedings, but James, the Legal Aid Society, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP filed an appeal in the state over the decision.

In a letter to Cuomo, the lawmakers wrote the need for an openly gay judge on the state's highest court is especially important given the concerns over the civil rights policies of the new Trump administration in Washington.

One of the most honorable duties of the New York County Democratic Committee is to endorse candidates in the Democratic Primary for Civil Court Judge races.

Retired judge George Bundy Smith, who sat on New York state's highest court and earlier in life was arrested as a civil rights «Freedom Rider,» died Saturday.

He also served as a legal intern with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Office of Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, Judge David Trager of the Eastern District of New York and the Civil Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

District Leaders also have a role in electing judges for New York's Civil, Supreme and Surrogate Courts.

She was also a staff attorney for Brooklyn Legal Services, a lawyer for the New York City Office of Labor Services, a civil court judge and criminal court judge.

«The New York Judge's decision on stop - and - frisk is a huge victory for those of us that have marched and fought against it for years saying is a violation of our constitutional and civil rights.

The appellate panel reached that decision even though the district judge had based the dismissal on a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was overturned last year by the Congress's adoption of the new civil - rights...

Washington — The chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in strongly worded letters to the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General, has warned that a recent decision by a federal district judge could be interpreted as exempting local school programs funded under the new federal education block grant from compliance with civil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minoriCivil Rights, in strongly worded letters to the Secretary of Education and the Attorney General, has warned that a recent decision by a federal district judge could be interpreted as exempting local school programs funded under the new federal education block grant from compliance with civil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minoricivil - rights laws protecting the rights of women, the handicapped, and minorities.

U.S. District Judge Adrian Duplantier of New Orleans has postponed the American Civil Liberties Union's suit against Louisiana's «scientific - creationism» law until a separate suit on the issue before another federal district court has been decided.

6) Setember 29, 2010: Cuccinelli's office issues a new Civil Investigative Demand to the University of Virginia that complies with the judge's ruling yet differs little from his original request.

Into Ontario, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP civil litigator Glenn A. Hainey is the newest judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.

If we have lost so much faith in our judges, crown and police that we feel the need to straightjacket them with statutory amendments and mandatory policy directives, why isn't anyone talking about finding a new way to appoint and hire these important civil servants?

Lebovits, a judge of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and St. John's University School of Law, opens by promising that» [w] riting a really bad brief — a brief so bad you're sure to lose your case — is a skill few attorneys acquire... The reasons you might want to lose are many, and writing a bad brief is a key to losing.

Writing in NLJ recently His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, the designated mercantile judge for the Midlands, noted that the digital age has «revolutionised the way we all instantly communicate around the globe, making paper documents anachronistic... Lawyers — including judges — must embrace new technologies if they are to be «fit for purpose» in proportionate civil litigation; a recurring theme in the Jackson Report,» (NLJ, 8 June 2012, p Judge Simon Brown QC, the designated mercantile judge for the Midlands, noted that the digital age has «revolutionised the way we all instantly communicate around the globe, making paper documents anachronistic... Lawyers — including judges — must embrace new technologies if they are to be «fit for purpose» in proportionate civil litigation; a recurring theme in the Jackson Report,» (NLJ, 8 June 2012, p judge for the Midlands, noted that the digital age has «revolutionised the way we all instantly communicate around the globe, making paper documents anachronistic... Lawyers — including judges — must embrace new technologies if they are to be «fit for purpose» in proportionate civil litigation; a recurring theme in the Jackson Report,» (NLJ, 8 June 2012, p 773).

New York Chief Judge John Lippman echoed this connection between access to civil justice and public safety when he stated: «If what happens inside this courthouse or any courthouse... is anything short, even by the smallest amount, of promoting equal justice... [t] he most vulnerable in our society, they're the ones who have suffered the most.»

If a judge in a civil law system is in doubt about the fact whether its decision is creating new legal rules, it should leave matters to the legislator.

It's not immediately clear to me why a judge on the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, would be a particular expert on e-mail etiquette for lawyers, but I thought there were a lot of good points in Judge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence of «tone» and on the need for brejudge on the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, would be a particular expert on e-mail etiquette for lawyers, but I thought there were a lot of good points in Judge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence of «tone» and on the need for breJudge Lebovits» article — which originally appeared in the New York State Bar Association Journal — particularly the reminders on the absence of «tone» and on the need for brevity.

Via this post on the (new) legal writer blog, I found this detailed analysis of «E-Mail Netiquette for Lawyers» by Judge Gerald Lebovits of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattnew) legal writer blog, I found this detailed analysis of «E-Mail Netiquette for Lawyers» by Judge Gerald Lebovits of the New York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in ManhattNew York City Civil Court, Housing Part, in Manhattan.

In 1981, Pamela Thomson was appointed as a full - time Small Claims Court judge, assigned to the new Provincial Court (Civil Division).

In this article for New Law Journal, David Greene discusses Civil justice reform and questions if Judges should be the final arbiter.

Mike also serves as a Board Director of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers (a group of New York State trial lawyers and judges working to protect, preserve and enhance the civil justice system).

The Court Navigator is also permitted into the courtroom in the Bronx, New York, Kings, and Queens County Housing Court and Bronx Civil Court to respond to factual questions asked by the judge but not to represent clients in the traditional lawyer sense.

Mr. O'Sullivan is also correct to imply that, in a justice system where the content is based in part on «judicial civil precedent», on judges providing new solutions to new problems created by changes in society, a reduction in the number of decided cases, precedents, could be a problem.

From 1 October 2008, all judges and members of the High Court Masters Group (which includes masters of the Chancery or Queen's Bench Division, district judges of the principal registry of the Family Division, bankruptcy registrars and costs judges), other than circuit judges, will wear the new civil gown without a wig, or bands, wing collar / collarette.

Tabs at the neck of the new civil gown will indicate the rank of judge: Court of Appeal, gold; High Court, red; members of the High Court Masters group, pink; and district judges, blue.

Meanwhile, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order moving back deadlines for civil and criminal cases, and federal judges have done the same.

None of that was enough for the trial judge — or the New Hampshire Supreme Court — to throw out the conviction, but, as the National Law Journal reports in an article to be published Monday, the case illustrates a new area of concern for lawyers in criminal and civil triaNew Hampshire Supreme Court — to throw out the conviction, but, as the National Law Journal reports in an article to be published Monday, the case illustrates a new area of concern for lawyers in criminal and civil trianew area of concern for lawyers in criminal and civil trials.

The appeal judge took the reasons of Butler J. into consideration, and found that there were not any new issues — everything that Mr. Gonzales brought up in the civil claim had already been decided during the family matter by the Supreme Court judge.

In 1984, Judge Simon was appointed as a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, with assignments in both the Family Part, Special Civil Part, and Law Division.

The development of the J - Codes (and the new model - form - bill - of - costs when it is developed), is a response to a review of civil litigation costs in England and Wales, conducted by Lord Justice Jackson (a very senior judge in the judiciary).

As Julian predicted a few days ago, Judge Doug McKeon of the Bronx Supreme Court (that is the trial court level, New York state) today rejected former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss Kahn's claim that he was entitled to immunity from a civil lawsuit brought by a former maid at the Sofitel Hotel in New York for the same acts that caused the Manhattan DA to at first charge DSK with sexual assault, charges that later were dismissed.

For more great stuff, including why our judges love the civil jury system, get the Center for Justice & Democracy's new BRIEFING BOOK, TORT LITIGATION AND JURIES: BY THE NUMBERS.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

Plans to introduce a new judicial court working dress in January, which will see judges in civil cases ditching their wigs, have been put on hold.

On July 22, 2014, Judge Fern Fisher presented the NYS Courts Access to Justice Program's DIY Star Award to Lydia Grima, Retired Clerk of the County of the Kings County Civil Court for her outstanding leadership in the implementation of the DIY Form programs in the New York City Civil Courts.

Inspired in part by the work of the Conference of Chief Justice's Civil Justice Improvements Committee, Chief Justice Scott Bales of the Arizona Supreme Court issued an Order at the end of last year establishing a new initiative for the Arizona Courts, creating a 24 - member committee of judges, lawyers, and...

This blog reported in late 2014 that Judge Luo Dongchuan, then head of the SPC's # 4 Civil Division, mentioned that a new judicial interpretation on the judicial review of arbitration - related issues will go into the Court's judicial interpretation drafting plan in 2015 and that the SPC intends to reform jurisdiction in judicial review of arbitration issues, to consolidate them in specialized courts.

«Judges will have greater powers to manage cases, in particular to ensure compliance with the principles of proportionality and cooperation at the heart of the new Code of Civil Procedure.

Most legal commentators have since argued that this decision is more than likely to be reversed on appeal, primarily in light of the religious underpinnings of the judge's decision, which raise First Amendment concerns (according to the New York Times, the American Civil Liberties Union has offered to appeal the ruling on behalf of the child's mother).