Sentences with phrase «non-recused federal appellate judge»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

The speech's usefulness is limited due to its small intended audience: federal appellate judges.

The more that I think about this question, the more I conclude that it is appropriate for a federal appellate judge to be more reluctant to feel an obligation to recuse if the recusal would be based solely on the participation of an amicus or counsel for an amicus.

A federal appellate judge warned Friday that patent reform bills circulating on Capitol Hill threaten to erode the power of the courts to decide how cases are heard.

The majority of federal appellate judges hire clerks in the fall of their 3L year.

Apparently, in Rosen's DC - oriented mind, the only viable Democratic SCOTUS nominees are federal appellate judges, big - law lawyers, elite law professors, and «book smart» and «ruthlessly determined» politicians.

President Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, 54, to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Or perhaps President Obama will wish to listen to Reagan - appointed federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.)

After surveying numerous state and federal appellate judges, Judge Aldisert was not able to come to a conclusive magic number for issues.

He has a stellar résumé that includes stints as law clerk to a federal appellate judge, lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, top Justice Department civil rights lawyer under President Clinton and general counsel of The Coca - Cola Co..

Bashman suggests that any recusal - induced vacancies be filled by a non-recused federal appellate judge randomly selected to sit by designation.

Earlier this month, a federal appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit retired amid allegations that he engaged in sexual harassment and unwelcome touching over the course of his 32 years on the bench.

And there is no question that judges — especially those on the Supreme Court and the various federal appellate judges — matter in the development of law in the United States.

One study found that women federal appellate judges are significantly more likely than men to rule in favor a party alleging discrimination.

I came to the position with experience as a law clerk to a federal appellate judge, thirteen years of practice (including service as a special counsel appointed to prosecute the impeachment of Nebraska's Attorney General), and then five years as a United States Magistrate Judge.

«I can't think of very many people I have met in this profession who are more qualified or more suited to be a federal appellate judge than she is,» Sinclair said.

If you think that what Judge Kozinski did was bad, I know of federal appellate judges who have publicly admitted to viewing child pornography: Of course, those other judges did that in the context of adjudicating appeals in which a criminal defendant was challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting a child pornography conviction.

For anyone who practices regularly in federal appeals — especially the many appellate practitioners who did not clerk for federal appellate judges themselves — this article sheds very useful light on how cases get decided.

The New York Post has Srinivasan and four other current federal appellate judges on their list, because we all know that pulling from the Circuit Courts of Appeal is the most likely choice here.

As you know, that job has since gone to someone whom the U.S. Senate did not get around to confirming as a federal appellate judge.

So, they did a lot of hard work, and good statistical analysis, regarding the voting patterns of federal appellate judge who had children.

While today you don't have to travel hundreds of miles by dogsled to hear cases as your predecessor judges based in Alaska once did, you probably now have the most grueling commute of any federal appellate judge to arrive at the locations where your court regularly hears oral arguments.

As for special obligations arising from being the northernmost federal appellate judge in the United States, I feel a special obligation to release my staff from work and encourage them to walk outside to see the North American Championship dog mushing race that starts right outside my chambers.

Not exact matches

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and other groups today filed a brief with a federal appellate court explaining that a district court judge erred in refusing to block implementation of Vermont's law mandating warning labels on products with ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) plants.

But between Aug. 17, when a federal district court judge in Albany revived Pidot's candidacy by ordering the new election, and the appellate court's overruling of the district court two weeks ago, Martins and Pidot raised and spent money.

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.

But Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in his judgment, delivered on July 1, 2015, held that he lacked jurisdiction to entertain the suit while the June 8, 2015 judgment of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, nullifying the extradition application and affirmed by another judge of the same Lagos division on June 23, 2015, had not been set aside by any appellate court.

A federal district judge can order increases in property taxes, but not income taxes, to fund costly school - desegregation remedies in Kansas City, Mo., an appellate panel has ruled.

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.

«Appellate Daily has the latest news headlines from all thirteen federal appellate courts, along with judge spotlights, case analysis, and related commentary.»

With over one hundred trials and fifteen arguments in the federal appellate courts, I have appeared before a lot of judges and seen good and bad practices from the bench and believe that I have learned from them.

In the U.S. Federal appellate courts, and maybe all of the state appellate courts, they have a procedure (as I understand it) by which a judge of the appellate court who wasn't on the hearing panel can request the full court reconsider the decision.

There are two other federal appeals judges on the new list; both were nominated to their appellate positions in May.

Rather, it merely proves that the different regional federal appellate courts follow somewhat different rules governing the order in which the judges on the three - judge panel that decided the case are listed on an opinion.

This is a speech given by Judge Re at a seminar for federal appellate court judges.

Instead, lawmakers chose to let Tennesseans weigh in on the issue in 2014, when voters will be asked whether a modified federal process — gubernatorial appointment, legislative confirmation, and retention elections — should be used to select appellate judges.

Coverage includes state and federal courts; trial and appellate levels; hearing officers; and administrative law judges.

Judge Erickson is as qualified as they come for judicial candidates for the federal appellate bench.

We represents businesses before state and federal courts, juries and judges, arbitration panels and state and federal administrative agencies, and United States Courts of Appeals, state appellate courts and administrative appeals boards.

A dozen judges (nine federal judges) have used it, including in opinions for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, several federal district courts and state appellate courts.