Sentences with phrase «opinions as a federal judge»

Not exact matches

On Thursday, the Ninth Circuit denied the government's emergency appeal to lift the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Trump's immigration order issued last week by a federal judge in Seattle, indicating in its opinion that Trump's past comments about a «Muslim ban» can be used as evidence for discrimination.

A federal judge in Brooklyn, in an extraordinary opinion that calls for courts to pay closer attention to how felony convictions affect people's lives, sentenced a woman in a drug case to probation rather than prison, saying the collateral consequences she would face as a felon were punishment enough.

Still, as a federal appellate judge, Gorsuch has issued hundreds of opinions that offer some idea of where he might stand on health and science issues.

«But even when successful, such suits still may not bring relief for the district, such as in Sumter County where a federal judge found fault with Alabama's funding system in an 800 - page opinion but also found the county was not entitled to relief from the court,» says Tuck.

The state and federal judiciary have organizations that specialize in training judges, such as the ABA's Appellate Judges Conference8 and the Federal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of thesefederal judiciary have organizations that specialize in training judges, such as the ABA's Appellate Judges Conference8 and the Federal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of these judges, such as the ABA's Appellate Judges Conference8 and the Federal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of these Judges Conference8 and the Federal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of theseFederal Judicial Center.9 Both of these organizations provide seminars in judicial opinion writing and have published helpful references.10 The interest in judicial opinion writing courses in law schools has developed more recently.11 In fact, law professors teaching these courses have used material designed for judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of these judges and their law clerks, assigned readings, their own materials, or some combination of these three.

On this highly important matter, the Federal Circuit ruling contains as many opinions as there were judges on the panel: three.

Though appointed judges write higher - quality opinions, according to the study, elected judges write many more, and thus, the professors attributed the difference in quality to volume (I would also argue that very generally, federal practice attracts more complex cases and a slightly higher quality of lawyer, which also contributes to the quality of the decision since in many cases, a judicial decision is only as good as the briefs on which it is based).

There are forums for every court and judge in the federal judiciary, as well as forums for federal judicial nominees (here is the forum for John Roberts) and federal appellate court opinions.

Not only is he attending, he is liveblogging his notes from the conference, which, as he observes, features an A-list of e-discovery experts, including U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, author of the watershed Zubulake opinions, and Ken Withers, senior judicial education attorney at the Federal Judicial Center (and, I can boast, my co-author of a 1977 Internet guide).

But as Michael Doyle observes at the blog Suits & Sentences, Stucky is the latest federal judge to write an opinion in the hard - boiled noir style epitomized by authors such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

Some flaws are structural; others involve poor management of the judiciary as a whole and of individual courts and judges; a third set concerns «deficiencies in how federal judges decide cases and justify their decisions in judicial opinions,» including a mechanical formalism and an unwillingness to confront openly the task of solving complex problems.

As Judge Posner and Professors Epstein and Landes suggested in The Behavior of Federal Judges, computerized sentiment analysis of the content of judicial opinions could produce more nuanced insights about particular judges» attitudes and ideJudges, computerized sentiment analysis of the content of judicial opinions could produce more nuanced insights about particular judges» attitudes and idejudges» attitudes and ideology.

Anacor Pharm., Inc. v. Iancu, 17 - 1947 — Yesterday in an opinion by Judge BRYSON, the Federal Circuit upheld a USPTO inter partes review decision that Anacor's claim was invalid as obvious.

There are a wide variety of courts — state and federal, trial and appellate, specialty — and the work can vary widely as well, but typically, clerks read briefs, attend court proceedings, write bench memoranda analyzing parties» arguments, advise the judge on the disposition of a case, and draft opinions.

Although it is hard to be certain without more publicly available information, FISC judges likely treat their opinions as non-precedential, as is standard practice for federal district courts.19 The relatively few public FISC opinions do cite earlier FISC opinions and principles of law, 20 but we have seen no clear evidence to suggest that the judges feel formally bound by those earlier opinions in any manner that would set them apart from other Article III district courts.

Constitutional expert Professor Peter W. Hogg, C.C., Q.C., has also reviewed Mr. Binnie's opinion and has said he is «in complete agreement with the Honourable Ian Binnie's conclusion that a person who has been a member of the Québec Bar for 10 years and is now sitting as a Federal Court judge is eligible to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada from Québec.»

As a sentencing nut, my own short / wish list of potential circuit court nominees is comprised mostly of federal district judges and state court judges who have written thoughtful sentencing and criminal justice opinions.

The private and in - chambers exercise of writing jury instructions as a test for opinion clarity would serve to focus the justices on the important work of assigning more precise role definitions for federal trial judges.