Sentences with phrase «of appellate judges»

This election of appellate judges led to many problems.

There are several anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, particularly in states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

She can also fulfill the role of appellate judge or Justice in practice arguments.

If they do not, you may vote for a challenger, or in the case of appellate judges, you may vote not to retain a sitting judge.

How many appeals has your lawyer handled, to include writing legal briefs and handling the pressure of sometimes rapid - fire questioning from a team of appellate judges?

In particular, the job of an appellate judge is said to involve endless reading.

On appeal, these proceedings «by indictment» are reviewed by the Court of Appeal for Ontario usually before a three member panel of appellate judges although in rare cases a five member panel will sit.

However, the number of appellate judges in those Courts is much larger.

A panel of appellate judges ruled unanimously last week that 99 additional ballots should be opened, although officials are holding off on that pending a decision by the state's high court on Amedore's appeal.

The biggest problem facing the ongoing Oracle v. Google retrial is that Judge Alsup doesn't seem to have swallowed the fact that the IP - specialized Federal Circuit found it hard to believe how one could get copyright law as wrong as he did in this case («confused» is what one of the appellate judges said at the December 2013 hearing).

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.

Ironically, our appellate courts are renowned for their general courtesy — the Court of Appeals has a tradition of the appellate judges stepping down from the bench to shake appellate counsels» hands at the conclusion of every oral argument.

Moreover, the recent use of such a provision in Missouri's constitution (map drawn by panel of appellate judges if legislature can not come up with map) lead to proposals in that state to remove the map - by - judges provision of that state's constitution.

Recognizing that appellate Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) programs have largely been patterned after programs for trial judges, IAALS is pleased to offer recommendations and tools for evaluating the performance of appellate judges that are tailored to those judges» unique role and responsibilities.

These recommended tools are the product of two years» work, which included a national conference that brought together stakeholders from around the country; an expert task force of appellate judges, JPE program coordinators, and legal academics; focus groups with appellate judges and attorneys; and cognitive interviews of potential respondents to JPE surveys.

Given that expression of public sentiment, which it is submitted is an obvious one, the Supreme Court's judgments in Morse must raise real questions of the ability of appellate judges who are far removed from the day - to - day world of ordinary New Zealanders to interpret and apply statutes that are said to embody New Zealand values.

Or perhaps it could help do a deep dive on the proclivities of appellate judges to predict opinions better.

SB 548 Increases salaries of appellate judges and justices (previously trial judges had a higher salary than appellate judges).

They dump this gross listing on the laps of appellate judges instead of performing the crucial next step...»

Gorsuch's evocations of simple judicial mantras as shorthand for the work of appellate judges was an obvious cover story.

To top it all off most of the appellate judges in the state are up for a yes / no retention election in August 2014.

The practice of appellate judges being chosen based on geography is also on the decline with only 10 states continuing to use the practice for courts of last resort and 17 of 40 states with intermediate appellate courts using district based selection (although Montana may buck the trend in 2012, Oregon voters rejected the idea 2 - 1 in 2006).

Oklahoma's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved five measures that would replace commission - based appointment of appellate judges with contested elections, limit the role of the judicial nominating commission in identifying the best qualified applicants, allow the governor to replace some lawyer members of the commission, and require appellate judges to get 60 percent «yes» votes to be retained.

Another researcher, James Stratman, had found his way to the early legal writing conferences, which offered him a forum for research that he had started doing at Carnegie - Mellon on the reading protocols of appellate judges.

It should be noted that of the 11 states that give their legislature some role in the confirmation of appellate judges:

Whatever one thinks about the Court's purported moves to the right on other issues, in the arena of criminal sentencing, federal defendants certainly should be more hopeful arguing before the current Justices than before any other group of appellate judges.

Sometimes, however, the court will schedule an oral argument during which both you and your ex or her attorney have the right to stand up in front of the appellate judges and argue your case.

Kentucky: The state in 1975 adopted an entirely new constitution that requires nonpartisan election of appellate judges (Sec. 117)

The city must give Success Academy $ 720,000 in back payments for three charter - school pre-K programs, a panel of appellate judges ruled Thursday.

In a dissent, one of the appellate judges said no argument had been made that the brokers used illegal means to obtain the commission, a precondition for forbidding the awarding of contingency fees.

IAALS Online recently summarized anticipated efforts in 2014 to alter processes for selecting state court judges, and a recent article in the ABA Journal honed in on a common trend in a handful of these states with commission - based gubernatorial appointment of appellate judges.

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.

An early round win, such as defeating the adverse party's bid for a preliminary injunction, is no guaranty the other side won't prevail, with or without an assist from a panel of appellate judges.

This bill now joins the previously filed HB 8 (partisan elections of appellate judges).