Sentences with phrase «on judicial selection»

The Association's Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention evaluates judicial candidates to help voters make decisions about candidates for judicial office.

When a vacancy occurs before the expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Selection.

James Sample, who does some of the best legal work on judicial selection mechanisms, has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming Depaul Law Review).

A Web site sponsored by the American Judicature Society, which has compiled comprehensive information on judicial selection processes in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia.

Week ahead: retention elections for NC appellate courts; Texas AG can get special 3 - judge courts to hear challenges to state laws; another TX interim study on judicial selection; broadcasting TN Supreme Court hearings online; mandate veterans courts in every CA Superior Court; guns in IL courthouses but not courtrooms

Billy Corriher is senior researcher at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina, where his work includes a focus on judicial selection, voting rights, and the courts in North Carolina.

Minnesota's Commission on Judicial Selection has 49 members, with 27 appointed by the governor and 22 appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court.

The new Commission on Judicial Selection will have 17 members, the same number of members as the expired commission, and 11 previous members who still had time left in their terms will serve on the new panel.

Not exact matches

Here's Aaron Frazier from the Monroe County Democratic Committee Judicial Selection Committee on the importance of Family Court:

During the judicial primary elections September 12, Brooklyn Democratic voters seemed to base their selections for Civil Court judge primarily on gender; immune, apparently, to an ongoing squabble over the process for selecting the nominees, who are virtually guaranteed election in November given the borough's Democratic tilt.

In a 2000 report, the ABA Commission on State Judicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigningJudicial Selection Standards warned of the «alarming increase in efforts by special interests to influence the outcome of judicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigningjudicial elections through both financial contributions and attack campaigning.»

(39) On an application for judicial review of the arbitrator's decision, no determination or selection that the arbitrator was required to make under subsection (29) shall be overturned unless the determination or selection was patently unreasonable.

«We have a long way to go,» acknowledges Hallett; noting that judicial selection draws on a legal profession «where the proportion of women at the top is disappointingly small».

If one reads the comments on the Charleston Post and Courier's web site regarding the Judicial Merit Selection Commission's preliminary decision that Judge F.P. Segars - Andrews is unqualified to remain a family court judge because of her handling of a divorce case in which there was a business relationship between her husband's law partner and one -LSB-...]

Other Committee projects and priorities include revising the ABA Standards on State Judicial Selection, Defending the Courts / Response to Unjust Criticism, and setting national judicial stJudicial Selection, Defending the Courts / Response to Unjust Criticism, and setting national judicial stjudicial standards.

The Judicial Merit Selection Commission report on Judge F.P. Segars - Andrews can be located here.

If loose leaf law libraries are convenient, doubtless they will come, and instead of pleasing rows of book - shelves we shall look on piles of drawers, suggestive of drugs or deceased butterflies, but really filled with careful selections of judicial wisdom.

Governor Maggie Hassan signed an executive order establishing a judicial selection commission to advise her in filling vacancies on the state's courts.

(judicial review arising from failures of due process in the Bar's disciplinary arrangements discovered by a report by COIC in 2012; time expired disciplinary judges — whether a tribunal «established by law» under ECHR Art. 6 and Art. 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; whether Art 47 now has direct effect in UK; whether laid down selection process of disciplinary judges had to be followed at all; whether prosecutor could partake in selection process of disciplinary judges; whether a disciplinary judge could properly receive an undisclosed salary from the prosecutor; whether logjam in Visitorial appeals process caused unlawful delay; whether proper Art. 6 security of tenure when BSB sits on committee (COIC) with the power to remove disciplinary judges from the «pool» at will; whether «discreditable» conduct should be defined).

Provides regardless where a court temporarily sits, the court would continue to preside on behalf of its original jurisdiction (i.e. judicial department, judicial district, county, city, etc.) and the same substantive and procedural laws (e.g. governing venue, jury selection, papers and appeals) would apply as if the court were not relocated.

Neighboring St. Clair County also hosts more than its fair share of litigation while its judges manipulate the judicial selection system to remain on the bench.

That plan was never formally introduced into the NJ legislature, however I did find one effort to change judicial selection in the state, specifically focused on the state's Supreme Court.

He served on Federal Judicial Selection Advisory Committee and the Burlington County Judicial and Prosecutorial Selection Committee.

«It is clear any efforts are meant to manipulate judicial selection to partisan advantage, from repealing judicial public financing to adding party labels on judicial elections to judicial redistricting.

He is recognized as a scholar and commentator on judicial ethics, judicial selection, and constitutional interpretation.

He is a past member of the Boston Bar Association Diversity Leadership Task Force, a past member of the US District Court Civil Justice Advisory Board, a past Chairman of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Merit Selection Panel and a past member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Working Group on Practicing with Professionalism.

The «Call To Action» was issued by the participants in the National Summit on Improving Judicial Selection, held on December 8 - 9, 2000 in Chicago, Illinois.

Contemporary judicial selection concerns include the controversy over merit selection of judges vs. the election of judges, the need for judicial election reform, and the effect of the method of judicial selection on the number of minorities and women seated on the bench.

He was also nominated and serves on the Judicial Awards Selection Committee for the Dade County Bar Association.

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the governor's selection of Zachary Martin to fill a vacancy on the Ouray County Court, effective immediatelOn Wednesday, October 18, 2017, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the governor's selection of Zachary Martin to fill a vacancy on the Ouray County Court, effective immediatelon the Ouray County Court, effective immediately.

As one part of the larger O'Connor Judicial Selection Plan, JPE programs assess judges based on objective performance criteria, including surveys of those who work with or appear before the judge being evaluated.

The Lex Machina Copyright Litigation Report breaks down the thousands of copyright cases filed in the last 5 years to showcase how this data can be used to inform litigation strategy: from detailed analysis of different judicial districts useful to forum planning, to timing data on trial and injunctions that can drastically improve budgeting, as well as top parties and firms for firm marketing and outside counsel selection.

On the theme of diversity in Canadian legal institutions (see Omar Ha Redeye's excellent piece in Slaw yesterday), in the UK the Judicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for judicial appointments from «non-traditional» backJudicial Appointments Commission has just announced it will be running a selection exercise this summer by which it will recommend candidates for judicial appointments from «non-traditional» backjudicial appointments from «non-traditional» backgrounds.

She has written and spoken on a wide range of judicial issues, particularly constitutional limits on government, the federal nomination process and state judicial selection.

On Monday, December 19, 2016, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the selection of three finalists for a vacancy on the Mesa County CourOn Monday, December 19, 2016, the Colorado State Judicial Branch announced the selection of three finalists for a vacancy on the Mesa County Couron the Mesa County Court.