Sentences with phrase «recuse if»

2d (W.D. Wisc. 2007): The district court enjoined enforcement of the provision of Wisconsin's Code of Judicial Conduct which required judges to recuse themselves if they had, while a judge or candidate for judicial office, previously made statements that «appear [ed] to commit» the judge with respect to an issue in a proceeding.

I mentioned in December 2012 that Texas legislators had prefiled a bill (HB 129 of 2013) to require judges of state's top appellate courts (Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals) recuse if a party, attorney, firm, etc. contributed $ 2,500 or more to judge's campaign in last four years.

It should also be noted that a judge can not recuse himself if there is no other judge capable of hearing the case is available (the classic example is the case deals with an issue regarding pay of the judicial branch of government.

The Massachusetts bill is a reversal of the Missouri one; rather than the judge being forced to recuse if an attorney that was on the commission appeared, the attorney who served on a commission would be effectively barred from practicing law in any court in the state.

While only a few states have adopted these exact provisions of the Model Code, essentially all states, through statute, rule, or ethical code, require judges to recuse themselves if their impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

In some cases, a judge may recuse herself if she is scheduled to hear a case that she worked on while she was a prosecutor or attorney.

The more that I think about this question, the more I conclude that it is appropriate for a federal appellate judge to be more reluctant to feel an obligation to recuse if the recusal would be based solely on the participation of an amicus or counsel for an amicus.

For example, she says, district attorneys may recuse themselves if they have represented an individual during a previous legal career, or if an individual being investigated is a family member or close associate.

Mr. Schneiderman — In what situations will you recuse yourself if you don't agree with a state law or policy?

He says he'll recuse himself if an issue arises from his investigation.

A judge who has a personal conflict of interest in the case may nonetheless stay on the case instead of recusing herself if all the parties and the judge understand the conflict, but agree the judge should stay on anyway.

Judges will typically have long terms OR life time appointments to prevent the political nature of running for elected office from introducing bias into the court (often recusing themselves if it appears they could be biased.).

Not exact matches

«If reports are accurate that Attorney General Sessions — a prominent surrogate for Donald Trump — met with Ambassador Kislyak during the campaign, and failed to disclose this fact during his confirmation, it is essential that he recuse himself from any role in the investigation of Trump campaign ties to the Russians,» said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

On Wednesday, Trump told The New York Times that he wouldn't have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known Sessions would recuse himself from the investigation into Russia's election interference and whether his campaign team collaborated at all.

7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges should recuse themselves from death - penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that — in limited situations — judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.

Only the White House Counsel's Office examines their assets to determine if there are potential conflicts, and to decide what steps employees must take to sell assets, resign positions or recuse themselves from decisions.

Trump then said he would have chosen a different attorney general if he'd known Jeff Sessions was going to recuse himself from the Russia investigation and said that «many people» have said he should fire special counsel Robert Mueller.

Sessions» decision to recuse himself from the Russia probe left Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge, and angered the president, who has said if he knew in advance Sessions would do that, he would have picked someone else.

If he's confirmed for the job, Delrahim, a former partner at the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, will have to work with the government's ethics watchdogs to set out a plan for when he has to recuse himself.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

If Hobby Lobby were allowed to recuse themselves from providing access to birth control because of beliefs, should secular organizations prohibit access to viagra?

If true, she had a legal obligation to recuse herself from this case.

I have also filed a complaint against Tony Jones» attorney and the family court judge (is she the attorney's former law partner and if so why didn't she recuse herself from this case?).

If they wish to follow Satan, then so be it, but they should recuse themselves from the legal aspect of our country and go back to their states and let transparency and righteousness of the upright persons run our country they way our forefathers meant it to be done.

If we start with those we know for sure (assuming Chandler has recused himself from duty)...

For each interest disclosed to the President of the Board of Directors, the Chair will determine whether to: (a) take no action; (b) assure full disclosure to the Board of Directors and other individuals covered by this policy; (c) ask the person to recuse him / herself from participation in related discussions or decisions within the association; (d) ask the person to resign from his or her position in the association; (e) if resignation is refused, to initiate procedures for removal of that person from that position.

«If we find issues that would call on me to recuse myself, I will,» he told BuzzFeed News.

Mujica also said he did not anticipate having to recuse himself from CUNY votes, but would if he perceived a conflict.

Similarly, if Gorsuch were an alternate, then he could have replaced Scalia if Scalia felt the need to recuse himself.

If my son had said something to me, I would have recused myself.»

(Some insiders now speculate that Blake deliberately made the rounds with key election lawyers citywide hoping to hobble the Bronx County Democrats, if Schlein had to recuse himself.)

When asked if Vance should recuse himself, Cuomo said «it's an issue that we have to look at.»

During our sit - down, he again criticized one of his opponents, Sen. Eric Schneiderman, saying the Manhattan lawmaker would have to recuse himself from investigating his former colleagues in the Senate if he's elected AG.

He accurately makes the point that if Schneiderman was in the AG's office, he would have to recuse himself from any investigation of the NYS Senate.

Due to comments he made during the «highly contentious» presidential campaign, Sessions vowed to recuse himself from any possible Justice Department investigations into Hillary Clinton if he's confirmed.

7:20 pm: Liz asks Dinallo whether he would accept the endorsement of AG Cuomo, and if he was forced to investigate him whether he would recuse himself.

The governor's office has not said whether Mulrow will recuse himself from deliberations with NYRA if a company controlled by Fields were to apply for the privatized franchise.

When asked if Peters would recuse himself from the probe into Ahmad and his two firms, an agency spokeswoman referred DNAinfo to the statement the commissioner made in April 15.

James Odato raises the question of whether the Commission can issue subpoenas if one of its co-chairs recuses themselves.

«If there were, I would have recused myself.»

However, if elected officials had to recuse themselves based on campaign donations, there would not be a state or national elected official who could ever vote on anything.»

It was unclear whether he recused himself from the Buffalo Billion probe over the potential conflict of interest — or if he was even aware of Bharara's investigation.

«I also understood that if I was still in office when the Town Board might need to take action, I could recuse myself.

If Agata were a witness in the federal case, he would have to recuse himself from any JCOPE probe into Percoco's alleged crimes.

Committee members will ask if Azar will commit to recusing himself from decisions related to his private - sector work.

Pruitt said during the hearing that he would recuse himself from any ongoing cases against the EPA that he is involved in, if the EPA's ethics commission required him to do so.

If a conflict is discovered, she said, researchers must recuse themselves in a process that's also overseen by EPA's ethics officials.

Any time there is a vote regarding charter schools she and Allan Taylor (and Pryor, if he is a voting member) must recuse themselves.

If a member shows up with a conflict, and it recuses the member from doing a significant portion of work, it places that work in the laps of the other members, which not only isn't fair, but increases risk.

This is about whether his close relationship with Achievement First creates the appearance of a conflict of interest and whether due to the appearance it would be best for him, the state and Connecticut's education system if he recused himself — that is abstained — from getting directly involved in decisions that would benefit the organization that he worked so hard to develop and expand.