Sentences with phrase «retired justice of the supreme court»

A retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Brobbey, led the committee of 8 other members to undertake the consultation process.

The nine - member Commission of Enquiry led by retired Justice of the Supreme Court Justice Stephen...

The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, Torys» Counsel and retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada The Honourable Justice James C. MacPherson, Court of Appeal for Ontario Murray Segal, Deputy Attorney General Neil Finkelstein, Partner, Blake, Cassels and Graydon, LLP Patrick Monahan, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School

We have also consulted with another eminent retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Honourable Louise Charron, C.C.. Mrs. Charron reviewed and expressed support for the view taken by the Honourable Ian Binnie in his opinion.

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Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens disagreed with that 2008 interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

Looking ahead: Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has called for repeal of the Second Amendment.

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment to allow for significant gun control legislation.

In the fisticuffs that is the Supreme Court, the recently retired justice often found himself on the losing side of 5 - 4 decisions.

Repealing the Second Amendment would be the best way to «weaken the NRA» and help the students who have protested around the country achieve their goal of sweeping gun control, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a NY Times OpEd.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz is pleased to announce her appointment of retired New York State Supreme Court Justice Augustus C. Agate to the Queens Library Board of Trustees.

An organization composed of current and retired state Supreme Court justices is opposing the constitutional convention.

When state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Teresi of the Third Judicial District retired from his second 14 - year term half way through on June 26, the Albany Democrat and former public defender set up a race that's pitting his fellow Albany Law School alumni, Democratic Albany County legislator and private attorney Justin Corcoran, against Greene County - based Republican Lisa M. Fisher, an attorney with the Ulster County Public Defender's office.

The Supreme Court had on November 12, 2015 through a five - man panel, led by now retired Justice John Fabiyi, granted an order of stay of proceedings of Saraki's trial before the CCT, pending the hearing and determination of his appeal.

The Commission, led by retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Stephen Allan Brobbey, is to seek the views of opinion leaders and other stakeholders in the Western Region on the proposed split.

Commission of Enquiry headed by a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice S. A. Brobbey was inaugurated by President Akufo - Addo in October 2017 to go round the country to collate views from the public for proposed four new regions.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, an advocate for civic education, offers this observation in Guardian of Democracy: «Knowledge about our government is not handed down through the gene pool.

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that federal mandates are squeezing some subjects out of the curriculum, and she is working on a project that has a goal of restoring one of them: civics education.

Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun announced last week that he will retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of its current term, giving President Clinton his second opportunity in as many years to nominate a new jJustice Harry A. Blackmun announced last week that he will retire from the U.S. Supreme Court at the end of its current term, giving President Clinton his second opportunity in as many years to nominate a new justicejustice.

Warren E. Burger, the retired chief justice of the United States who died last month at the age of 87, wrote several landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions that shaped education policy.

«iCivics, a nonprofit education company founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, launched the upgrade of DBQuest to coincide with Black History Month... iCivics worked with Filament Games to create and design the platform, which allows teachers to track students» progress and share their work with the class.»

The award is named for retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in honor of her commitment to improving civics education.

Starting up the midweek shoesaw of highlights from Gamasutra and our other sites, there's a pretty large amount of neatstuff already - headed off by retired Supreme Court Justice O'Connor (pictured) frontlining an educational game about American courts (we'd like to think she'll be a bit like an EA Sports cover - star), and Insomniac revealing new East - Coast digs.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has praised the educational power of computer games, calling them a «fabulous» teaching tool.

He is survived by his third wife, Felice K. Shea, a retired New York State Supreme Court justice; two children from his marriage to Ms. Miller, Hadea Nell Kriesberg of Hillsborough, N.C., and Matthias Kriesberg of New York and San Diego; and a brother, Louis, of Syracuse.

Just days after his first choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was forced to withdraw from the running, President George W. Bush has nominated a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest cCourt of Appeals judge, Samuel Alito, to the nation's highest courtcourt.

In October, exactly two decades after Justice William J. Brennan Jr. retired from the Supreme Court, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish a new biography of him, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, written by journalists Seth Stern and Stephen Wermiel.

Drawing an analogy with the infamous «Enemies of the People» episode in the UK earlier this year, Mr Justice Fok reassured external observers in his speech that independence had not been compromised and, among other matters, pointed to a recent endorsement of Lord Neuberger, the recently retired President of the UK Supreme Court, in respect of his own position as a non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority has rejected a petition from a group of retired judges seeking rules requiring judges and justices to recuse themselves from cases involving significant donors...

At the age of 69 and after 18 years on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter made the announcement that he would be retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of this year's term in June.

As a Principal of Newman ADR, retired Justice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's qJustice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's qJustice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's qjustice's queries.

A 2010 analysis of opinions from the 2006 — 2008 Supreme - Court terms, for example, showed that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg commonly uses this pronoun - alternating technique (as did Justice John Paul Stevens before he retired)-- though Justice Ginsberg alternates her use of masculine and feminine pronouns across different opinions and not within a single opinion.

Two — justices Sandra Ballance and Jane Dardi — now sit on the bench of the British Columbia Supreme Court and one — Gordon B. MacRae — has just retired.

Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi welcome Attorney Fred Alvarez, chair of the ABA Commission on Opportunities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession and award recipients Attorney Richard A. Soden, of counsel to the Boston office of the national law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP and Justice Dan Sosa Jr., retired Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court, to talk about diversity in the legal profession.

The book was edited by Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland and features essays from such authors as retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; retired Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Igor Judge; and Magna Carta in pop culture contributor and historian Carolyn Harris.

There are seven honourees with ties to the law including hockey legend Ken Dryden and retired Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Charron.

Retired Supreme Court justice Morris Fish was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada for his «eminent service» as a jurist, particularly on the SCC bench from 2003 - 13.

In the wake of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's announcement that she will be retiring from the Supreme Court of Canada in December, the legal profession is left to wonder who will take on the role.

The new process — through which qualified lawyers and persons holding judicial office in Canada may apply to the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments through the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs — was launched last year as Justice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this pJustice Thomas Cromwell prepared to retire from the Supreme Court; Malcolm Rowe became the first SCC justice to be appointed by this pjustice to be appointed by this process.

Two former Supreme Court law clerks who are now highly regarded law professors and Supreme Court scholars are urging President Obama to to fill retiring Justice David Souter's seat with someone who will bring to the court a different set of life experiences than those of any of the sitting justCourt law clerks who are now highly regarded law professors and Supreme Court scholars are urging President Obama to to fill retiring Justice David Souter's seat with someone who will bring to the court a different set of life experiences than those of any of the sitting justCourt scholars are urging President Obama to to fill retiring Justice David Souter's seat with someone who will bring to the court a different set of life experiences than those of any of the sitting justcourt a different set of life experiences than those of any of the sitting justices.

The prime minister's office has announced an advisory board to select a new justice for the Supreme Court of Canada, to fill the vacancy that will be left when Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin retires in Dejustice for the Supreme Court of Canada, to fill the vacancy that will be left when Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin retires in DeJustice Beverley McLachlin retires in December.

Toobin notes the insularity of the Supreme Court, pointing out that when John Paul Stevens (Northwestern University school of Law) retired, all eight of the remaining Justices had attended Harvard or Yale Law Schools.

VIRGINIA LONG, who retired this month as a New Jersey Supreme Court justice after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70, has joined Fox Rothschild in Princeton as counsel.

While Stevens quickly added that he was still drafting his own opinions, I find it fascinating that one of the yardsticks the Justice used to measure whether to retire imposed a standard that the other eight justices on the Supreme Court can't meet.

A retired Senior Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and former Commercial Division Justice, Judge Crane wrote a handbook on Case Management for the Justices and practitioners in New York County Supreme Court while he was its Administrative Judge.

The announcement last week by Justice Marshall Rothstein that he is retiring means that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has an opportunity to appoint his eighth judge to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Pulitzer Prize - winning historian James MacGregor Burns has written of the U.S. Supreme Court: «Justices throughout the court's history have clung to their seats long after their political patrons have retired and long after their parties have yielded to their opponents or even disappeCourt: «Justices throughout the court's history have clung to their seats long after their political patrons have retired and long after their parties have yielded to their opponents or even disappecourt's history have clung to their seats long after their political patrons have retired and long after their parties have yielded to their opponents or even disappeared.

As previously reported by Legal Feeds in June 2012, the British Columbia Supreme Court appointed retired Supreme Court justice Ian Pitifield to oversee the transfer of the residential schools victims to new lawyers following a critical review of Blott's firm Blott & Co.'s practices.

The First Circuit panel, which included retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, agreed with our client's position that the latent defect exception to the manufacturing defect exclusion was not ambiguous and the damage to the yacht did not fall within that exception, and directed the district court to enter judgment in favor of our clCourt Justice David H. Souter, agreed with our client's position that the latent defect exception to the manufacturing defect exclusion was not ambiguous and the damage to the yacht did not fall within that exception, and directed the district court to enter judgment in favor of our clcourt to enter judgment in favor of our client.

A retired senior justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and former Commercial Division Justice, Judge Crane has confronted complex securities litigations and appeals as ajustice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court and former Commercial Division Justice, Judge Crane has confronted complex securities litigations and appeals as aJustice, Judge Crane has confronted complex securities litigations and appeals as a judge.