Sentences with phrase «single federal judge»

The suits are likely to be rolled into one case that a single federal judge will handle.

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The DOJ eventually backpedaled somewhat, dropping its demand that it have authority to approve or deny every single voucher, but a federal judge ruled that the state must fork over data about the race of participating students, which the DOJ could use in future challenges.

Nearly two years later, not a single state's plan to comply with the federal education law — and its broader vision for judging school performance — calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system.»

At times, people have questioned whether in at least some cases, parties should be able to appeal prothonotary decisions directly to the Federal Court of Appeal, rather than first to a single judge of the Federal Court.

Tara Leigh Grove: «As soon as a single federal district judge issued an injunction with the first travel ban, the Department of Homeland Security complied.»

Client pled to a single charge and initially received a 15 year Federal sentence, however counsel went back to the sentencing Judge several years later and got that sentence cut in half.

Remarkably, it has been nearly half a century since the Supreme Court has even a single Justice with experience as a federal district court judge, and I think the Justices» confusing work in various arenas (especially sentencing) reflects a lack of practical district court wisdom.

According to The New York Times «In recent years, a single judge based in Marshall Texas oversaw about a quarter of all patent cases nationwide, more than the number handled by all federal judges in California, Florida and New York combined.»

Even though I live and practice bankruptcy law in one of the most progressive states in the Union: California, I do not see enough female and ethnic bankruptcy attorneys or trustees and although I am admitted in multiple federal districts in the state, to my knowledge, I have never appeared before a single ethnic bankruptcy judge.

When multiple civil actions involving one or more common questions of fact are pending in several different federal district courts, those actions can sometimes be transferred to one district court for coordinated and consolidated management and pretrial proceedings under a single judge.

In Exterro's 2015 «Federal Judges Survey on E-Discovery Best Practices and Trends,» not a single one of the 22 responding judges said they fully agreed with the statement that the typical attorney possesses the subject matter knowledge (legal and technical) required to effectively counsel clients on e-discovery maJudges Survey on E-Discovery Best Practices and Trends,» not a single one of the 22 responding judges said they fully agreed with the statement that the typical attorney possesses the subject matter knowledge (legal and technical) required to effectively counsel clients on e-discovery majudges said they fully agreed with the statement that the typical attorney possesses the subject matter knowledge (legal and technical) required to effectively counsel clients on e-discovery matters.

In terms of its core function, the FISC is effectively a federal district court.18 The vast majority of its work involves a single judge's determinations of the legality of government requests to authorize surveillance or compel production.

Suspending a single provision of the Conservative government's new voter law with a federal election only months away at most is just too risky, an Ontario judge ruled Friday.

Appeals from family law and child support decisions of the Federal Circuit Court are usually heard by a single judge of the Family Court.