Sentences with phrase «sitting justice of the supreme court»

While Justice Abella's desire to curb populism is certainly understandable (though it was arguably inappropriate for a sitting justice of the Supreme Court of Canada to attack the current President of the United States), her prescription for this problem is exactly backwards.

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Yale also has an alumni list containing the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and three sitting Supreme Court justices, which probably contributes to its high qualitative assessments.

Pigeon — who for decades has quietly assisted candidates, companies and sitting officials as they navigate the labyrinthine factions of Erie County politics — was arraigned the day after the judge, state Supreme Court Justice John Michalek, resigned from office and pleaded guilty to accepting bribes.

«If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country,» Sanders said.

The panel will also report on whether the service for the last 10 years of current sitting Civil Court Judge and Acting Supreme Court Justice Frank Nervo merits his continuation in office.

In a widely circulated article released over the weekend, Dr. Atuguba cites what he calls the voting pattern of justices who sat on the Supreme Court panel that decided the 2012 Election Petition in favour of President John Mahama as evidence of how Ghanaian Justices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in theirjustices who sat on the Supreme Court panel that decided the 2012 Election Petition in favour of President John Mahama as evidence of how Ghanaian Justices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in theirJustices have historically allowed their personal politics to decide matters of law in their courts.

«If, by the time the case gets to the Supreme Court, there is a Trump - appointed justice sitting on it, the odds of the [current Clean Power Plant rule] surviving there do not inspire confidence,» says Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia Law School who directs the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Because U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat on an appeals court which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 deciCourt Justice Sonia Sotomayor sat on an appeals court which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 decicourt which heard one of the lawsuits, she will likely recuse herself, leaving the real possibility that the case will receive a 4 - 4 decision.

They do not constitute binding precedent because they are not rendered in an adversarial setting like a lawsuit, but, as the personal opinions of the sitting justices of the state Supreme Court, they can be persuasive.

Victor stumbles on the remnants of a drug ring, decades old, and that leads to a sitting Supreme Court justice who might be involved in Joey's murder and another murder that happened twenty years before.

And yet the Supreme Court's temporary stay of the administration's Clean Power Plan — the last decision of global consequence of the right - leaning court on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate gCourt's temporary stay of the administration's Clean Power Plan — the last decision of global consequence of the right - leaning court on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate gcourt on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate goals.

Answer: It sounds like you are being hustled, as a recent survey shows that only one out of three Americans can name a sitting justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1) Question: My buddy just bet me $ 1,000 that a random stranger of my choosing would be unable to name a single sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice.

The case authority on which Cooke J replied was the decision of the leading expert on conflicts of laws, Mr Justice Collins, who will sit in the new Supreme Court from October, in Mazur Limited & Another v Mazur Media GmbH [2004] EWHC 1566.

We understand that for the first time there will be a full sitting of all 11 justices of the Supreme Court.

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 annJustice 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 annjustice of the Supreme Court of Canada on a date to be announced.

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.

• Make the Supreme Court Travel - Some would like to see the Supreme Court justices ride the circuits, sitting in different parts of the country.

After all, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, she would be the only one of the nine justices to have sat on the trial bench.

She sat as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1999 to 2004, on the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Ontario.

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.

We have never sat in panels in the supreme court because we believe that the opinion of every justice named to that court counts, and we're named from different regions,» she said.

The issue of gaga judges seems to afflict the US Supreme Court, where lifelong tenure and the prospect of political pitched battles keeps judges sitting long after their best - by datesSee Supreme Court Senility or the even more provocative Slate piece on Chief Justice Rehnquist's penchant for serious prescription drugs.

An examination of the Ohio Supreme Court by The New York Times found that its justices routinely sat on cases after receiving campaign contributions from the parties involved or from groups that filed supporting briefs.

At the same time, a sitting supreme court justice is now the subject of an FBI investigation.

The Supreme Court Act also provided for the creation of the Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court) and it has to be noted that the same six justices sat on this Court.

According to the Ohio Constitution, in the event of a recusal by a justice, the chief justice can select any of the 69 sitting Ohio appellate court judges to sit temporarily on the Supreme Ccourt judges to sit temporarily on the Supreme CourtCourt.

Given the age of some of the other sitting Justices, President Trump may have the opportunity to fill additional seats on the Supreme Court in 2018 and beyond, and thereby influence a shift in the ideology of the Supreme Court toward a more conservative and strict constructionist jurisprudence.

Martinez - Fraga and Reetz discussed their book Public Purpose in International Law — Rethinking Regulatory Sovereignty in the Global Era at the event, which was attended by leading lawyers including two Supreme Court justices, one sitting minister and the heads of the committee charged with the selection of counsel for the defense of the state.

In Gosselin v Halifax (Regional Municipality) Taxi Committee, 2000 NSJ No 31, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court found no breach of natural justice because the decision was unanimous and the applicant, having sat through the hearing and heard the decision, knew the identity of the decision - makers.

Indeed it sits oddly with the Supreme Court's own initiatives to be more open to the media and the ground - breaking appearance of Chief Justice McLachlin on Steve Paikin «s TVO show.

They referred to two works of Argentine lawyer, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni, who currently sits on the Supreme Court of Justice.

Four of the sitting Supreme Court justices have qualified to run.

Equally surprising, perhaps, were the extra-judicial comments from a sitting Supreme Court of Canada justice about the report.

This is arguably because the case shows one of the benefits of the reconstituted Supreme Court (sitting with more justices, here seven) without the supposed complementary benefit of a change in decision making (consolidation into one overall judgment or, at worst, one majority and one dissenting).

To those who doubt that the court is now more conservative than ever, a study (co-authored by Richard Posner) last year showed that four of the five most conservative justices to serve on the court since 1937 are sitting on the current Supreme Ccourt is now more conservative than ever, a study (co-authored by Richard Posner) last year showed that four of the five most conservative justices to serve on the court since 1937 are sitting on the current Supreme Ccourt since 1937 are sitting on the current Supreme CourtCourt.

In a recent exit interview conducted by the Globe and Mail, Justice Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada was asked to talk about some of his favourite or most momentous cases, while sitting with Canada's highest cCourt of Canada was asked to talk about some of his favourite or most momentous cases, while sitting with Canada's highest courtcourt.

Maybe so at the TRIBUNAL, but not maybe so in front of the more numerous Supreme Court Justices who sit in judgement of important cases.

Where trial justices have reviewed a petition to enforce an arbitration award and issued findings, the supreme court stated «the findings of a trial justice sitting without a jury are entitled to great weight and will not be disturbed on appeal unless it can be shown that such findings are clearly wrong or that the trial justice misconceived or overlooked material evidence.»