Sentences with phrase «only by a federal judge»

Not exact matches

The federal judge overseeing the case in Texas against the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule on Wednesday denied considering all but two of the eight amicus briefs filed in the court, allowing only the briefs filed by the Financial Planning Coalition and the American Association for Justice.

The Court has repeatedly said that its function is not to judge the wisdom or the policy of laws, but only to judge whether or not they are exercises of powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution or denied by it to the states.

While the scope of the Nuclear Option was relatively limited (only federal judge appointments I believe), there is nothing stopping it from being expanded upon by the current majority power.

Joiner has likely made this task more difficult by instructing trial judges that neither Daubert nor the Federal Rules of Evidence «requires a district court to admit opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.

Last week, a ruling by federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth left many human embryonic stem cell (hESC) researchers not only scrambling for funding and concerned about the future of their own research, but also concerned for the future of the whole field in this country.

In Cleveland, a federal judge surprised the nation last May by deciding the district's longtime desegregation plan wasn't enough, because only one of its two high schools is racially integrated.

The Racketeer by John Grisham Doubleday, $ 28.95 Grisham's latest thriller has a killer concept: Only four active federal judges have ever been murdered — until Judge Raymond Fawcett makes # 5.

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Overall, women represent only 27.1 % of all federal and state judges, according to the Women in Federal and State - Level Judgeships report by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at federal and state judges, according to the Women in Federal and State - Level Judgeships report by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at Federal and State - Level Judgeships report by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at Albany.

And this wouldn't be just state judges setting up their own rules for liberal Hawaii, Vermont, and Massachusetts — it would be a federal judge striking down opposite - sex - marriage only laws enacted by a 70 % -30 % vote.

I can also argue by analogy to the preponderance of evidence floor set not only in federal law, but also in the law of the sister jurisdictions of Maryland and the District of Columbia (but watch out for hostility by some judges towards those jurisdictions, to the extent they might view Maryland and D.C. law as too lenient for criminal defendants).

But, of course, the Judges Act would be trumped by the Constitution in the case of a conflict, and the question whether a brief stay on the Quebec courts allows a federal court judge to circumvent the criteria in the Supreme Court Act is one that can only be assessed on the facts of a particular case.

The 10th Circuit judicial council found that the federal law that governs judicial misconduct cases only applies to conduct by judges once they take the bench.

Finally, if the Court concludes that the Second Amendment secures an individual right aimed partly at self - defense, thus endorsing the view expressed by Congress and by the White House Office of Legal Counsel, though only by a minority of federal circuit judges, then some right to self - defense might be inherently protected through the Second Amendment.

A judge may accept appointment to a governmental committee, commission, or other position only if it is one that concerns the law, the legal system, or the administration of justice, or if appointment of a judge is required by federal statute.