Sentences with phrase «not judicial opinions»

Not exact matches

«There is no good cause for further judicial involvement where the court has now heard directly from Redstone that he has lost trust in Herzer, does not want her in his life and instead wants his daughter Shari to look after him as necessary,» the judge wrote in an opinion this morning.

We can assume that all the Justices sitting on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.

For example, in 1994 the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association issued an opinion holding that it is «ethically permissible» to use «the anencephalic neonate» as an organ donor, even though, as the Council recognized, under current law anencephalic babies are not dead.

While I find the majority opinion in Brown disappointing and even more so the fact that its author was Scalia, in the end there is something for conservatives to take away from the case: a strong judicial precedent that new categories may not be added to the type of content not afforded full First Amendment protection.

Moreover, in holding that a statute prohibiting aliens from being imported for labor was not intended to prevent a church from hiring a foreign Christian minister, the Court quoted approvingly from two previous judicial opinions showing «we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity» and «the Christian religion is a part of the common law of Pennsylvania.»

-LSB-...] Although the Supreme Court has not needed to directly address the subject of recall of Members of Congress, other Supreme Court decisions, as well as the weight of other judicial and administrative decisions, rulings, and opinions, indicate that

«The majority opinion turns entirely on procedural issues and did not address the trial court's findings that the constitutional rights of LAUSD's students would be violated without judicial intervention,» Sapp said.

The appellate court agreed with the trial court's May 2016 opinion finding that Florida's system of free public schools satisfies constitutional requirements, and opined that plaintiffs» claims «either raise political questions not subject to judicial review or were correctly rejected on the merits.»

Such a defense, if established, shall be a bar to the action or proceeding, notwithstanding that (A) after such act or omission, such interpretation or opinion is modified or rescinded or is determined by judicial authority to be invalid or of no legal effect, or (B) after publishing or filing the description and annual reports, such publication or filing is determined by judicial authority not to be in conformity with the requirements of this title.

(c) As to transactions entered into after May 20, 1996, a creditor shall have no liability under this chapter for any act or practice done or omitted in conformity with any (i) regulation of the administrator, or (ii) any rule, regulation, interpretation, or approval of any applicable Alabama or federal agency or any opinion of the Attorney General, notwithstanding that after such act or omission has occurred, the regulation, rule, interpretation, opinion, or approval is amended, rescinded, or determined by judicial or other authority to be invalid for any reason; provided, however, that any interpretation or opinion issued after May 20, 1996, shall not have any effect on any litigation pending on May 20, 1996, nor shall any interpretation or opinion issued after May 20, 1996, have any effect on litigation if issued subsequent to filing of the litigation.

I have not and will not express an opinion on a judicial process.

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I urge you to buy the book, not so much because I need the money for my end of the case (which I do) but because when a sclerotic and dysfunctional judicial system co-operates with a cynical and fraudulent plaintiff in turning the DC courts into a 21st century version of trial by ordeal, it is more important than ever to push back by disseminating as widely as possible the opinions of him that Mann is trying to suppress.

«Adding law review citations to judicial opinions helps us rank search results more intelligently, for example, giving a relevance boost to cases that aren't cited by courts, but are cited by law review articles.

Meanwhile, Brownstone remains cognizant of judicial ethics and is careful not to express opinions on the issues he and his guests discuss.

I'm usually able to see both sides of an argument, but here, honestly, I just can not understand the logic of the other side given the pervasive utilization in the legal profession of junior colleagues to write judicial opinions, briefs, motions, articles, letters, etc. on which senior folks sign off.

It was not long after that when U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued the first - ever judicial opinion approving the use of TAR, Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe.

Not only is it an indispensible reference for chambers, considering its comprehensiveness, readability, and modest price, it is an excellent choice for law school courses on judicial opinion writing.18 HT, T, Ref; E, C, JS.

Again, the narrow focus of this article and its age would not make it useful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

The chapter not only provides a useful summary of opinion structure and writing process, it contains theoretical underpinnings by focusing on the issues of judicial constraint, candor, and reasoning facing judges.

This article, while not about opinion writing, does venture into the minds of lay and judicial decision - makers.

This article does not seem to aid in attaining any of the three stated goals of a judicial opinion writing course.37 It might provide discussion material for a seminar.

While this is an excellent reference for all legal writers, the short section on writing judicial opinions does not go into sufficient depth for courses on judicial opinion writing.

While this essay is written for academics, and not for the audiences of a judicial opinion writing class, it is included because it explains the creation of a second - year lawyering seminar in judicial writing with the goal of exposing law students to the possibilities the role of judicial opinion writing has to affect social - justice.

However, in view of the more comprehensive articles and texts on judicial opinion writing that include this information, this might not be a first choice.

This article is so narrowly focused that it would not be very helpful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course.

Nothing in the opinion of this Court, therefore, may properly be regarded as an adjudication on the merits of the constitutional issues presented by these cases, which raise the question of the validity not of the private agreements as such, but of the judicial enforcement of those agreements.

But let's face it: limited meaning or not, the «argle - bargles» of our lexicon do have a way of bringing judicial opinions down to earth and livening them up, don't they?

For exactly this reason, Advocate General Léger rightly advised in his opinion in the Baustahlgewebe case that the jurisdiction of the General Court must be understood «as not extending to actions for compensation relating to judicial acts of that Court itself» (para 70).

Another nice feature of HBS case studies is that they often contain multiple relevant primary source documents, something not available in judicial opinions.

And while there are many who believe that judicial opinions that use verse, quote song lyrics, or make TV or movie references somehow detract from the dignity of the bench or disrespect parties who take the issues very seriously, let's not forget that judges owe a duty to write opinions that are accessible to all.

Indeed, the full court of the ECJ in Opinion 2/15 has already underlined that ISDS rivals with domestic courts and is not part of the domestic judicial system, when it held that ISDS «removes disputes from the jurisdiction of the courts of the Member States» (para. 292).

Greene has not cited — and the Court has not found — a single statute, regulation, rule, or judicial opinion holding that a litigant has a right of access (under the First Amendment, the common law, or anything else) to communications between a judge and his or her law clerk, including draft opinions and orders.

Fair use or not, David Corio, the photographer who took the Marley picture, said he was surprised to see it used in the judicial opinion without any credit or attribution, and believed that «a judge of all people would be decent enough to ask permission before using an image.»

Florida's opinion even echoes the earlier S.C. one when it says, «Judges can not isolate themselves from the real world and can not be expected to avoid all friendships outside of their judicial responsibilities.»

Using the photo in a judicial opinion couldn't conceivably be hurting the copyright holder,» he said.

Although PACER charges fees for downloading case documents and dockets, it does not charge for access to judicial opinions and orders.

First of all, the Court was not convinced by the Opinion of the Advocate General (AG) Jääskinen, who proposed that the judicial review of all decisions by the Petitions Committee must be precluded under Article 263 TFEU in so far as those decisions are not challengeable acts within the meaning of that Article.

If you came across a passage like this in a legal brief or judicial opinion, you probably wouldn't blink.

Not only is he attending, he is liveblogging his notes from the conference, which, as he observes, features an A-list of e-discovery experts, including U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, author of the watershed Zubulake opinions, and Ken Withers, senior judicial education attorney at the Federal Judicial Center (and, I can boast, my co-author of a 1977 Internetjudicial education attorney at the Federal Judicial Center (and, I can boast, my co-author of a 1977 InternetJudicial Center (and, I can boast, my co-author of a 1977 Internet guide).

Although PACER's fee schedule provides charges for most types of documents, it does not charge for access to judicial opinions on PACER.

«Improper» covered conduct ordinarily justifying disbarment, striking off, suspension or other serious professional penalty and also conduct which according to the consensus of professional, including judicial, opinion could be fairly stigmatised as being improper, whether it violated the letter of a professional code or not.

But then each one would need to testify that unintelligible law was the proximate cause... or an expert opinion to that effect, which would need to come from inside the justice system itself — completely impossible as the freedom of information legislation does not cover judicial records, and you can not sue the court system (as far as I know).

Last week, Legal Profession Blog reported on a Nov. 17 opinion of the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee concluding that judges may not «friend» lawyers who may appear before them on social networking sites such as Facebook.

And I don't mean that we can't read statutes, judicial opinions, or briefs or represent clients based on all of this information, but the volume of the information being generated by lawyers, judges, legislators, etc. can no longer be found, digested, disseminated, or understood without software and algorithms.

Courts have a harder time making these distinctions because judicial conventions mandate that they give reasons to support their opinions, and what principled reason could there be for giving 50 of the 1,000 rights of marriage but not another 25 or 100 or all of them?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas isn't a fan of big words in judicial opinions.

The ending of the post is a one - sentence paragraph as well, but not as vivid or interesting as earlier portions of the post, essentially ending on the idea that this dispute could lead to an interesting judicial opinion.

· The correct judicial response to the question of the admissibility of hearsay evidence in an expert opinion is not to withdraw the evidence from the trier of fact unless, of course, there are some other factors at play such that it will be prejudicial to one party, but rather to address the weight of the opinion and the reliability of the hearsay in an appropriate self - instruction or instruction to a jury.

Your determination to obliterate any humanity from your judicial position, your essentially non-existent listening skills, and your propensity to use your court — where you lack the courage to hear opinions contrary to your own — to launch ugly, vulgar, and mean personal attacks not only confirms that you are as loathsome as suspected, but also casts shame on you as a judge, that most extraordinarily important function that was entrusted to you.