Sentences with phrase «published judicial opinions»

By combing through tens of thousands of published judicial opinions with the help of 17 law students and three undergraduates, using search terms such as «brain disorder,» «biological,» and «CT scan,» however, Farahany's team found that use of such evidence is growing for a wide range of violations including robbery, fraud, and drug possession.

Between 2005 and 2012, more than 1585 U.S. published judicial opinions describe the use of neurobiological evidence by criminal defendants to shore up their defense, according to a study published last week in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences by legal scholar Nita Farahany of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues.

Not exact matches

Such a defense, if established, shall be a bar to the action or proceeding, notwithstanding that (A) after such act or omission, such interpretation or opinion is modified or rescinded or is determined by judicial authority to be invalid or of no legal effect, or (B) after publishing or filing the description and annual reports, such publication or filing is determined by judicial authority not to be in conformity with the requirements of this title.

«Ever since 1872, when John West hit upon the idea of building a business around publishing court decisions, commercial publishers have maintained a firm hold on the dissemination of judicial opinions.

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 thesJudicial 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 thesjudicial 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 thesjudicial 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 three.

Excerpts on the decision to publish and whether to issue summary affirmances might be helpful in training externs and clerks in a judicial opinion writing course to give the students background in some of the decisions judges must make in addition to how to decide cases and write the opinions.

The Clearinghouse publishes or links to the full text of more than 2,000 complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings and organizes them all under its own full - text search engine.

He also notes that «the only search mechanisms generally taught in law school concern closed sets of materials, i.e., judicial opinions and other materials gathered by large publishing companies such as Westlaw or LexisNexis.»

The Clearinghouse publishes or links to the full text of more than 2,000 complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings and organizes them -LSB-...]

«Updates in the field of personal injury law as practiced in Tennessee, primarily through posting and comment on personal injury - related judicial opinions published by the Tennessee Court of Appeals and Tennessee Supreme Court.»

The Judicial Council reports (at p. 51) that only 9 % of majority opinions were published in 2011.

www.state.il.us/court Opinions of the Court, including published opinions arising out of attorney disciplinary proceedings, and the rules relating to admission, registration, professional responsibility and the Code of JudicialOpinions of the Court, including published opinions arising out of attorney disciplinary proceedings, and the rules relating to admission, registration, professional responsibility and the Code of Judicialopinions arising out of attorney disciplinary proceedings, and the rules relating to admission, registration, professional responsibility and the Code of Judicial Conduct

But because of the judicial emergency, the Third Circuit's active judges are now playing a radically smaller than normal role in shaping its precedent: four out of the last five CA3 published opinions were issued by panels with a single active judge and two senior judges.

Moreover, doctrinal entrenchment is particularly problematic in the FISA courts, where secrecy and institutional context indicate that outside efforts at doctrinal reform are less likely to be effective than they are with courts that publish their opinions.35 Unlike published opinions, secret opinions can not provoke the public into lobbying for a legislative override36 or judicial overruling37 — two important paths of legal reform.38 Perhaps to hedge against the risks of limited external oversight, FISA limits FISC and Court of Review judges to non-renewable, seven - year terms, 39 a provision suggesting that Congress envisioned a FISA court whose membership would be responsive to shifting factual circumstances and policy priorities.40 Stare decisis, which requires judges to adhere to interpretations of law that they might otherwise reject as unjust or unpersuasive, constrains these judges» ability to adapt to such factual and policy shifts.

The issue first arose in 1985 when Lexis announced its intention to add volume and page numbers drawn from the National Reporter System of the then West Publishing Company to its database of federal and state judicial opinions, not merely the page numbers on which decisions began but the page - breaks within them necessary for pinpoint citation («star pagination»).