Sentences with phrase «of federal judges»

Shooting had been suspended by order of a federal judge in 1998 after residents complained of contamination.

That committee's evaluation of federal judicial nominees is critical to appointment and confirmation of all federal judges including most particularly federal trial judges.

They said its unbelievably rare for a group of federal judges to overturn another federal judge's ruling that was 100 % proper and based on facts and law.

A committee of federal judges found that any alleged misconduct, which occurred when the judge was still a federal prosecutor, fell outside the scope of the judiciary's discipline system.

It's the job of a federal judge to determine those bounds and to give statutes their proper meaning.

Fifty - eight percent of federal judges are using tablets.

Us environmental laws apply at the country's scientific bases in Antarctica, according to a panel of federal judges in Washington.

As pertinent to this blog, The Behavior of Federal Judges contains a systematic statistical analysis of much of the existing data that has been collected regarding the activities of district judges.

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.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's ruling ordering the government to allow DACA recipients to renew their protected status.

He enraged Democrats by refusing to let the Senate consider President Barack Obama's nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland to fill a Supreme Court vacancy last February.

The Explanatory Memorandum to the AHRC Bill provides that this different regime «ensures that there are no constitutional issues arising from the appointment of a federal judge as President».

The layoffs come in the wake of a federal judge's decision last week to strike down Ampyra patents, which is a big victory for rivals like Mylan and Roxane Laboratories with cheaper generic copycats of the treatment.

The heart of New York's SAFE Act has been affirmed, but the provision to limit gun owners to loading no more than seven rounds in their magazines is still invalid, a panel of federal judges ruled.

A panel of federal judges on Tuesday refused to dismiss a challenge to New York State's redistricting process and instead named a federal magistrate judge to help create new political maps.

The primary was previously moved up to June 26 by order of another federal judge, who acted to ensure that New Yorkers serving overseas in the military would have enough time to vote by mail.

Opponents who could not see the issue more differently have nonetheless put the decision in the hands of a federal judge who heard the arguments last month, and she has not yet decided.

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

Finally, the higher percentage of federal judges from the public sector could have many causes, of which judicial salaries is only one, and I'm not sure the change is necessarily a bad thing.

The Federal Judge also said it would be foolish to try to precede with finding a replacement for Delay but today the Harris County Republican Party in defiance of a Federal Judge is having a meeting to find a replacement.

However, wayward litigants and lawyers should remember that — although few may respect the authority of Eric Cartman — the sanctioning authority of federal judges is still substantial.

Recently retired Judge Richard Posner from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in Chicago, said in an ABA Journal article, «The basic thing is that most judges regard [self - represented litigants] as kind of trash not worth the time of a federal judge.»

Widespread use of nominating commissions wouldn't be a cure - all for the deep - seated conflicts over selection of federal judges, says Harvey I. Saferstein, the committee member who will introduce the recommendation in the House.

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

But the campaign's timing is propitious: Trump's attacks on the Mexican heritage of the federal judge overseeing fraud suits against Trump University have set off a fresh round of denunciations from leading Republicans.

Insurance behemoth, Anthem lost their appeal of the February decision of a Federal Judge to block their 54 billion - dollar merger with Cigna.

We speak as if the founders instituted a magisterium — the Supreme Court and the college of federal judges in communion with it — that stands supreme over the other branches of government and infallibly interprets the Constitution.

Within moments of a federal judge striking down California's same - sex marriage ban Wednesday, religious conservatives vowed to fight the ruling all the way to the Supreme Court, saying the decision threatens gay marriage bans nationwide.

The decision is counter that of Federal Judge Frank McGarr in Illinois, who said that the commissioner's powers seem to be unlimited in dismissing Finley's suit against Kuhn after the commissioner voided the sale of three A's last year.

Said the speaker: «I believe in the power of federal judges, and if they order something to happen they will provide the remedy to make it happen.»

Members of Congress routinely quit midterm and a significant share of federal judges did too.

The suit accuses him of a «cold, calculated scheme» involving at least 374 acts of mail fraud over eight years and forged signatures of federal judges.

Despite the flood of protest inundating Trump over his criticism of a federal judge who's Mexican - American, Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member to endorse The Donald for president, said he sees not even a hint of racism in the remarks by the presumptive nominee.

Last week, a panel of federal judges upheld a lower court decision blocking it, but President Trump told reporters the administration plans to roll out a retooled immigration order next week.

The wrench thrown into this year's Congressional primary season, of course, was that it was held on June 26, a full three months ahead of schedule because of a federal judge's ruling.

«We're taking this court action — which, as far as we can tell, is unprecedented for the City Council — because we strongly oppose Mayor Bloomberg in his attempt to block the implementation of the federal judge's ruling that we need to implement immediately,» Quinn said.

State and federal Republican elected officials are denouncing Donald Trump's latest comments where he attacked the character of a federal judge with Hoosier roots.

threatened to change the Senate rules in order to break Democratic filibusters on a series of federal judge appointments put forward by President Bush.

A panel of federal judges reluctantly revised the district lines after the State Senate and Assembly gave up trying in 2012.

A panel of federal judges says the new election district lines drawn by the Senate and Assembly majorities will be used in the fall elections.

On his way to the first of six meetings on Capitol Hill as part of his inaugural participation in Climate Science Day events that bring scientists to Congress each year to offer lawmakers and their staff assistance and scientific resources relating to climate science, Kennedy ran into a crowd waiting to watch Day Two of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Tom Horne, the outspoken state superintendent, protested that «we don't need an aristocracy of federal judges ruling over us.»

The same pattern is followed with the nomination of Federal judges except it is generally the right to unofficially veto a judicial nomination.

In 2013, 72 % of federal judges held OSCAR accounts, a 2 % increase from 2012.