Sentences with phrase «sitting federal judges»

A panel of sitting federal judges address a range of issues in awarding attorney fees and expenses in large, complex litigation in federal court.

Faculty The Honorable Milton I. Shadur, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois The Honorable William G. Young, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts The Honorable Victor A. Bolden, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut Course Description A panel of sitting federal judges address a range of issues in awarding attorney fees and expenses in large, complex litigation in federal court.

Faculty The Honorable Avern L. Cohn, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan The Honorable Frank Maas, Chief Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York The Honorable Lisa M. Smith, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Course Description A panel of sitting federal judges address a range of issues in awarding attorney fees and expenses in large, complex litigation in federal court.

Granholm did not hold back, however, about whether Obama should be looking at candidates who are not currently sitting federal judges — a suggestion made often by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D - Vermont, whose committee holds hearings on Supreme Court nominees.

«Is it appropriate for a sitting federal judge to write such articles, and call for such a national referendum?

We have also sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, asking that he initiate impeachment proceeding against Jay Bybee, who is now a sitting federal judge.

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The documents indicate that under the program, launched in 2001, a federal judge sitting on the secret surveillance panel called the Fisa court would approve a bulk collection order for internet metadata «every 90 days».

The new lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was assigned to the same judge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsvjudge who ruled for the challengers earlier, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of BrownsvJudge Andrew S. Hanen, who sits in the federal courthouse in the Texas border town of Brownsville.

The anti-graft agency then re-arraigned Turaki and the three companies before Justice Dimgba in Abuja, being the only judge sitting as a vacation judge in the northern region of the country while the other Federal High Court judges proceed on vacation.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

And late this morning, a Washington, D.C. source confirmed the information, adding that the target of one federal corruption indictment will include at least one sitting New York State judge and other individuals - all with ties to major banks...

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of Federal High Court 6 then adjourned the case to Wednesday last week for ruling on the two issues being sought by both prosecution and defence but the court failed to sit on that day because of a seminar organised for judges by the National Judicial Institute (NJI).

Sitting with her husband by her side in Brooklyn federal court, Huntley admitted her mistakes and asked the judge for leniency.

Bharara sat in the back of the courtroom as Manhattan federal Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Skelos.

Update Aug. 9: On August 7, 2009 U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artiJudge David G. Campbell, sitting in the Arizona federal district court, dismissed without prejudice the plaintiffs» Complaint against Petland and Hunte Corporation. The judge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artijudge did not allow oral argument. (A copy of the judge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this artijudge's dismissal is attached and can be downloaded at the end of this article.)

You have heard of the «blue slip» tradition in the Senate, where the Senators for a given state where a Federal judge sits must return the so - called blue slip for the nomination to procede?

The presiding judge - William Sessions III, sitting in the U.S. District Court in Burlington - rejected the carmakers» argument that the proposed state rules conflicted with rules set forth by the federal government and that they imposed unnecessary and costly burdens on them:

In a post earlier this week about Free Law Project's new database of federal and state judges, I pointed out the sparseness of some of its listings and a material omission from the biography of Antonin Scalia — that he died and is no longer a sitting justice.

Answer: No, sometimes every judge serving on a federal appellate court finds it necessary to recuse themself from an appeal pending in their court, and federal appellate judges serving on a neighboring circuit will be assigned to sit by designation to resolve the appeal.

But getting back to my original question: are small - time judges more likely to abuse their power than those who play in the big leagues, such as those who sit on federal courts?

«A Deep Bench»: Today in The New York Times, Senior U.S. District Judge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.&rJudge Ann Aldrich (N.D. Ohio), along with her judicial law clerks, Alex Frondorf and Richard J. Hawkins, have an op - ed that begins, «To succeed Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court, President Obama should select a nominee with experience that no other sitting justice has — service as a trial judge on a federal district court.&rjudge on a federal district court.»

In addition to the quantitative results of the survey, the report includes expert opinions of eight sitting and former Federal Judges: Judge John Facciola, Judge Ronald Hedges, Judge Michelle Childs, Judge David Waxse, Judge Joy Conti, Judge Xavier Rodriguez, Judge Frank Maas, and Judge Andrew Peck.

Justice Rothstein, who sat as a judge on the Federal Court of Appeal, will be sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on a date to be announced.

Understandably, federal judge Beverly Martin (N.D. Ga.) was upset when she could not convince her colleagues to agree with her view that «the Fourth Amendment forbids an officer from discharging repeated bursts of electricity into an already handcuffed misdemeanant — who is sitting still beside a rural road and unwilling to move — simply to goad him into standing up.»

The three candidates are Joel Bolger, a sitting Superior Court judge in Kodiak; Susan M. Carney, an assistant public advocate in Fairbanks; and Kevin F. McCoy, an assistant federal defender in Anchorage.

The most ideological prime minister in a long time has already appointed four of the nine sitting judges (justices Marshall Rothstein, Thomas Cromwell, Michael Moldaver, and Andromache Karakatsanis) and will soon appoint two more (justices Morris Fish and Louis LeBel will reach the mandatory retirement age of 75 before the next federal election).

Travel, as well as workload, is another issue for Federal Court of Canada judges, who are required to live in the National Capital Region yet have sittings in a number of cities across the country.

The majority was also influenced by the fact that the statute clearly excludes appointing Federal Court judges to sit as ad hoc members of the Supreme Court when it hears Québec cases — the majority's interpretation therefore reconciles two different but similar provisions, rather than leaving them at odds.

Bashman suggests that any recusal - induced vacancies be filled by a non-recused federal appellate judge randomly selected to sit by designation.

But the personality and character of a federal court of appeals inevitably derive over time from its active judges, who sit together year after year in randomly selected panels of three and who, sitting together en banc, are the only organ of the court authorized to overrule published panel decisions.

In 2012, the moot was named after the late Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal, Julius Alexander Isaac, the first Black judge to sit on the Federal Court of Canada.

Many federal judges sitting today have NEVER known the power of having discretion so how can we expect them to use it?

Fifty - one of the 162 active judges — about 31 percent — currently sitting on the 13 federal courts of appeal are women, according to NWLC.

Ian routinely speaks on legal matters on with sitting federal and state judges and other experienced litigators:

Paul routinely speaks on legal matters with sitting federal and state judges and other experienced litigators:

A federal district judge can not be presumed to carry around in his head every esoteric rule of the law of the state in which he happens to sit.

Nine of the 22 sitting federal district judges for the District of New Jersey are women.

Constitutional expert Professor Peter W. Hogg, C.C., Q.C., has also reviewed Mr. Binnie's opinion and has said he is «in complete agreement with the Honourable Ian Binnie's conclusion that a person who has been a member of the Québec Bar for 10 years and is now sitting as a Federal Court judge is eligible to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada from Québec.»

(That's because the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals but, in this case, Posner decided to sit as a lower court judge to hear the case.)

In preparing this Report, I spoke to Justice Wilcox about his observations as a Federal Court judge who sat on native title cases.