Sentences with phrase «number of federal judges»

He argues that a number of federal judges «have served with great distinction into their 80s.»

This point was echoed by a number of federal judges in our 2015, «3rd Annaul Federal Judges Survey: E-Discovery Best Practices and Trends.»

Indeed, the House Judiciary Committee cited the pay gap in support of a draft bill, released this past Wednesday, that would increase salaries in an effort to curb the growing number of federal judges who resign due to inadequate pay.

Other critics have argued that the concentration of patent litigation in a handful of districts gave the limited number of federal judges in those districts a disproportionate influence over the interpretation and development of patent law.

He was admitted to the New York Bar and has served as a law clerk and scientific advisor to a number of federal judges.

In short, he was able to push through the confirmation of a number of federal judges with a simple majority without threat of filibuster.

Not exact matches

A formal federal judge who is representing an undisclosed number of victims told Reuters that his clients want more information on how the attacks occurred and why they were targeted.

He's faced a number of significant setbacks and distractions, including federal judges» smackdown of his two travel bans, a failure to repeal and replace Obamacare and an ongoing investigation into his administration's possible collusion with the Russian government in the months leading up to the November election.

The week before, after three days of hearings in a U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, Federal Judge James Noland reversed a USAC ban that would have kept six CART teams — numbering among them drivers such as defending Indy champ Al Unser, his brother Bobby, and former winners Johnny Rutherford and Gordon Johncock — from competing in this year's race.

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

The immigration activist Ravi Ragbir's delayed deportation case is one of a growing number in which federal judges have ruled to halt both individual and mass deportations.

On the first day of presenting their defense cases Thursday, their lawyers urged a federal judge to dismiss the charges on a number of grounds, not the least of which, they said, is that the government has failed to prove corruption occurred after nearly five weeks of prosecution witnesses and evidence.

One of the charges read in part, «That you, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa, between January 18 and December 16, 2013, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 144,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.»

Another charge read, «That you, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa, between January 6 and November 17, 2014, in Lagos within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, being a judge of the Federal High Court, did enrich yourself with an aggregate sum of $ 102,000 through your account number 328446178210 domiciled in Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, so as to have a significant increase in your assets that you can not reasonably explain the increase in relation to your lawful income.»

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with what they had read about the former speaker.

Frustrated by what he has characterized as continued obstructionism by the Bloomberg administration, a federal judge on Wednesday appointed Robert M. Morgenthau as a special master to oversee the city's adoption of practices aimed at increasing the number of black and Hispanic firefighters.

ALBANY — After a full election cycle and more than two years of legal maneuvering, a panel of three federal judges dismissed challenges to the Republican - drawn map of State Senate districts, saying population deviation that tilted numbers upstate were permissible and any allegation of race - based gerrymandering was «purely speculative.»

Then, on 22 November, federal judge Amos L. Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas issued an injunction that put implementation of the new rule on hold until the court could decide lawsuits brought against it by a number of states and employers.

A federal judge in Arkansas last week ordered the Little Rock School District to reduce the number of teachers it plans to reassign in the upcoming school year as part of a comprehensive school - desegregation program.

Saying that he does not want his courtroom to become a «three - ring circus,» the federal judge presiding over Louisiana's creationism case has limited the number of lawyers he will allow to participate in the July 26 trial.

Changes to the composition of the Federal Court, including the number of judges and prothonotaries, have a significant effect on the enforcement of intellectual property in Canada.

The firm is also strong in tax litigation and tax planning, and has produced a disproportionate number of judges, including Federal Court of Appeal Justice Karen Sharlow and Tax Court of Canada Justice Leslie Little.

Zoe Tillman, writing for The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, reports that a Washington, D.C., federal judge on Monday scolded «birther» lawyer Orly Taitz for «wasting the Court's time» by failing to redact Social Security number information in court papers — a violation of federal rules.

A year after the decision in Richard, an Ontario Superior Court judge was asked to determine this issue in the context of an action brought by the federal commissioner of competition over claims made by wireless providers about the number of dropped calls.

Compounding the issue was the federal government's reluctance to appoint the number of judges to the UFC that would enable that Court to manage the caseload.

A recent decision by a New York federal judge has raised a number of issues concerning unpaid internships.

Judge Otis D. Wright II set his literary phasers to «kill» in entering an order sanctioning four lawyers $ 81,000 and referring them not only to their respective state and federal bars for discipline, but also referring the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Internal Revenue Service for criminal investigation.1 The lawyers in question (three of whom were principals in Prenda Law, a copyright «troll» purporting to hold the copyrights to a number of pornographic films) pursued illegal porn downloaders and offered to settle copyright infringement claims for $ 4,000 each.

A federal judge in California last week criticized two lawyers for bringing an additional 49 law firms into a data - breach case, raising to 53 the total number of firms representing...

According to The New York Times «In recent years, a single judge based in Marshall Texas oversaw about a quarter of all patent cases nationwide, more than the number handled by all federal judges in California, Florida and New York combined.»

There have been a number of new judges appointed by the federal government in the last few months, and some of these new appointments have been quite controversial, raising questions about political patronage.

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Travel, as well as workload, is another issue for Federal Court of Canada judges, who are required to live in the National Capital Region yet have sittings in a number of cities across the country.

A majority of the American public might be surprised to learn that there is indisputable statistical evidence that the number of jury and non-jury trials in our country is, and has been, sharply declining, both in absolute and relative terms.1 For example, in 2010, only 2,154 jury trials were commenced in federal district courts, which means, on average, Article III judges tried fewer than four civil jury trials that year.

It was a tough negotiation with the federal government because not all of the UFC positions were going to go to Provincial Court judges... With a patchwork of UFCs in the province, we now had a smaller number of judges who remained doing family law at the provincial level.

In complex injury litigation, federal judges often select a small number of lawyers to conduct the national investigation on behalf of the thousands of people injured.

He has written and co-written a number of articles published in the Professional Liability Underwriter's Society's PLUS Journal and the Defense Research Institute's For The Defense, amongst other publications, one of which was recently cited by a federal judge.

As with jury verdicts, the number of actual decisions by federal judges make up a tiny percentage of total cases.

A number of general common law cases arising under diversity jurisdiction will also form part of a federal judge's docket.

The «Truth in Sentencing Act» is legislation that was intended to provide an excuse for provincial and federal governments» not making any increased expenditure of money to increase the number of provincial and federal prosecutors, or to improve jail conditions, and an excuse for governments not to have to appoint and pay for more judges to make more courts available.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working on the federal appellate court with the smallest number of authorized active judges?

And how do you respond to those who say that the best way to remedy the problems associated with the Ninth Circuit's large size is to reorder the size and composition of all the federal appellate courts, a remedy that would increase the number of judges serving on, and the geographical boundaries of, the First Circuit?

The Full Federal Court found that the first judge had made a number of errors in his decision and have sent the case back for consideration by a new judge, leaving the Noongar peoples uncertain about the future of their rights over the land.

Some insight into these two constraints may be gained from observations made by a number of Federal Court judges who have long experience dealing with native title cases.