Sentences with phrase «powerful federal appeals»
But a powerful federal appeals court this month overturned a ban in Redondo Beach, Calif., against soliciting work from passing cars.
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Otherwise, «any powerful person who asks someone to do something is committing a federal crime because people are afraid of powerful people and want to curry their favor,» Appeals Court Judge Richard Wesley noted in the Silver hearing.
A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.
MANHATTAN — A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful men in Albany, for public corruption.
It was an unusual intervention by the Supreme Court, given that a powerful appeals court had just weeks ago turned down a request by dozens of states and their allies in the fossil fuel industries to impose a stay on the new federal regulation.