My own law clerks — young lawyers who have never tried a case or even taken a deposition — often go to jobs that pay them more than the salary
of circuit judges.
As is true with so many law students today, I was dumb enough just to haul off and write to a bunch
of circuit judges in places where I thought I would like to spend a year.
March 12, 2009)(available here), provides yet another example (like yesterday's opinions from the Ninth Circuit)
of circuit judges struggling to give meaning and content to substantive reasonableness review after Gall.
SC10 - 437 In Re: Amendments to the Rules Regulating the Florida Bar — Rules 4 - 7.1 and 4 - 7.2 - Publication Notice - issued 03/25/10 Comments (Bowman)- filed 04/26/10 Comments (Emmanuel)- filed 05/17/10 Comments (The Florida Bar)- filed 05/17/10 Appendices (The Florida Bar)- filed 05/17/10 Comments (Florida Conference
of Circuit Judges)- filed 05/27/10
The court began its consideration of whether the trio
of circuit judges had been correct to grant these applications by examining whether the officer had in any of his written applications satisfied the relevant conditions prescribed by the Act.
The submission by the Council
of Circuit Judges was probably the decisive factor.
As a general rule, the higher the court, the fewer salaried women judges — 24 % of the Court of Appeal (up from 18 % in 2014); 22 % of the High Court (up from 18 % in 2014); 28 % of Registrars, Masters, Costs Judges and District Judges (Principal Registry of the Family Division); 27 %
of Circuit Judges; 38 % of District Judges (County Courts); and 35 % of District Judges (Magistrates» Courts).
The three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit assigned to hear oral argument in this appeal tomorrow will consist
of Circuit Judges Theodore A. McKee and D. Brooks Smith and Senior Circuit Judge Jane R. Roth.
Salaries of justices of the supreme court, of the judges of the court of appeals,
of the circuit judges within a circuit, and of the probate judges within a county or district, shall be uniform, and may be increased but shall not be decreased during a term of office except and only to the extent of a general salary reduction in all other branches of government.
Salaries
of Circuit Judges shall be uniform throughout the state.
In the matter of the designation
of circuit judges of the First Circuit of the State of Hawaii to act as circuit family judges
Not everyone is overjoyed at the prospect: Charles Harris, last year's president of the Council
of Circuit Judges, also told BBC's Today:
Do we all share their high opinion of themselves, such that they are entitled to question the intellect
of a circuit judge?
Hernando County Court Administration provides the Adult Drug Court program described here, under the leadership and supervision
of Circuit Judge Donald E. Scaglione.
To be eligible for the office
of circuit judge, a person must be a registered voter in a county within the circuit and must have been admitted to the practice of law in the state for the preceding five years.
«the order
of the circuit judge shall be entered in the records of the district court of the district wherein the restraint complained of is had»
A circuit judge shall have the same power to grant writs of habeas corpus within his circuit that a district judge has within his district, and the order
of the circuit judge shall be entered in the records of the district court of the district wherein the restraint complained of is had.»
The judicial vacancy was created by the passing
of Circuit Judge Eddie C. Lovelace on Sept. 17, 2012.
Not exact matches
He noted that the number
of circuit court
judges the Senate confirmed set the record for the most in a year since the system was established in 1891.
Judge Michelle T. Friedland, who was appointed by President Barack Obama and was one
of three
judges from the Ninth
Circuit presiding over the immigration - ban case, asked Flentje, the DOJ lawyer, whether the government had any evidence connecting the seven nations targeted by the order to terrorism.
A three -
judge panel
of the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court
of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday from lawyers for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and...
But the Ninth
Circuit judges expressed skepticism
of Trump's use
of Obama's policy to justify his immigration ban.
August Flentje, who argued the government's case for the Department
of Justice in front
of the Ninth
Circuit judges on Tuesday, has not disputed that Trump and Giuliani made those statements.
Separately on Tuesday, a
judge for the U.S. Federal Court
of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit, ruled narrowly in favor
of the subsidies in a case called David King.
In his decision today,
Judge Thomas B. Griffith, a George W. Bush appointee for the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit, writes:
«A ruling by a single
judge in one
circuit can not and does not undo the years
of clear legal precedent nationwide establishing that transgender students have the right to go to school without being singled out for discrimination,» said a statement from five groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that have filed «friend
of the court» briefs on behalf
of transgender students.
A three -
judge panel
of the 5th U.S.
Circuit Court
of Appeals is scheduled to...
Although the federal
circuit judges in the cases decided in opposite directions, that discrepancy is likely to mean that the High Court will once more need to adjudicate the fate
of the ACA.
That ruling was upheld by a three -
judge panel
of the 9th
Circuit in San Francisco last week, raising questions about Trump's next step.
Trump has harshly criticized the federal
judge in Washington for his decision and a top White House aide on Sunday accused the 9th
Circuit of a «judicial usurpation
of power.»
The Justice Department urged the Fourth
Circuit Court
of Appeals in Richmond to lift a stay imposed by a Maryland federal
judge March 16th blocking the administration from carrying out the executive order.
Yet the Ninth
Circuit judges expressed skepticism
of Trump's use
of Obama's policy to justify his immigration ban.
The nationwide enforcement
of sections 5 (a), 5 (b), 5 (c), and 5 (e)-- along with 3 (c)-- was blocked by the Seattle
judge's retraining order, which was upheld by the Ninth
Circuit on Thursday.
Judges at the 9th US
Circuit Court
of Appeals, in San Francisco, will hear arguments from both parties on Tuesday.
The Trump administration has said it is considering appealing the 9th
Circuit ruling to the Supreme Court, and the 9th
Circuit itself might decide to rehear the case with a larger panel
of judges.
In a decision released by the Baltimore
Circuit Court,
Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability
of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene
of the crime.
Gorsuch incorporated wariness
of executive power in a dissent after the full 10th
Circuit declined to rehear a three -
judge panel's ruling that a sex offender should comply with detailed rules about registering as a sex offender.
But a US
Circuit Court
of Appeals
judge just threw out the verdict — He was to be sent to jail for 21 months and pay $ 15 million in fines — vindicating Reyes consistent claim
of innocence.
He also took issue with the size
of the hearing, adding that Michigan Supreme Court
Judge Joan Larsen, nominated for the 6th US
Circuit Court
of Appeals, «got off fairly easy» with Barrett taking most
of the heat.
7th US
Circuit Court
of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result
of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic
judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations —
judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.
While the denial
of a blue slip does not legally restrict a
judge from being approved, Glenn Sugameli, an attorney who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email earlier this week that «no
circuit court nominees have been confirmed over objection
of one (or two) home state senators — including under Obama.»
Democratic Sen. Al Franken
of Minnesota on Tuesday refused to sign off on Trump's nomination
of Minnesota Supreme Court
Judge David Stras for a vacancy on the 8th US
Circuit Court
of Appeals.
That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave
of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the total number
of district and
circuit court
judges he's nominated to roughly 50 — blowing far past the number
of judicial nominations made at this stage
of a presidency by any recent predecessors.
«Appellants sustained their burden
of showing injury by alleging that they paid artificially fixed higher prices,»
Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three - judge appeals court p
Judge Dennis Jacobs wrote for a three -
judge appeals court p
judge appeals court panel.
Last week the 4th U.S.
Circuit Court
of Appeals in Virginia reviewed a Maryland
judge's ruling that blocked the 90 - day entry restrictions.
The 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court
of Appeals in Manhattan reversed a lower court
judge's dismissal
of investors» antitrust claims against 16 banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG, Bank
of America (bac) and J.P. Morgan because she found no showing
of anticompetitive harm.
A three
judge 9th U.S.
Circuit Court
of Appeals panel last week upheld Robart's ruling.
A Miami - Dade
Circuit Court
judge has ruled that Coral Gables can't force FPL to upgrade infrastructure and trim trees around power lines, but that the city can sue the utility for breach
of contract over its response to power outages following Hurricane Irma.
Fifth
Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test»
of the Administrative Procedures Act by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.
Last week, AARP filed an appeal
of the Fifth
Circuit ruling, while New York, Oregon and California filed a motion asking the court for permission to rehear the case in front
of the full panel
of judges — known as an en banc review.