Sentences with phrase «state judicial leaders»

The report — released last week at CCJ's annual conference in Jackson, Wyoming — calls on state judicial leaders to implement 13 recommendations, and was produced in conjunction with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS).

A just - released report recommending concrete improvements in the American civil justice system has been endorsed by the Conference of Chief Justices (CCJ), the country's association of top state judicial leaders.

Not exact matches

One source said New York's two Democratic senators, Kirsten Gillibrand and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who have an outlet to block judicial nominations from their home state, were holding it up.

The state Commission on Judicial Conduct last month dismissed a complaint that Pines improperly awarded foreclosure work to a political party leader.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

(Party leaders at either the state or county level control judicial nominations.)

«We are calling on men and women of good conscience across the globe, Amnesty International and relevant human rights organizations to prevail on the Attorney General of the Federation and the judicial commission to drop the fabricated charges preferred against our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and others detained illegally alongside him in Kuje Prison because they committed no offense against anybody or Nigeria state».

He cited as one potential model the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose 11 commissioners are appointed by the governor, the four legislative leaders and the chief judge of the state's high cState Commission on Judicial Conduct, whose 11 commissioners are appointed by the governor, the four legislative leaders and the chief judge of the state's high cstate's high court.

I would argue that the film is much less about her innocence or guilt, and much more about the state of our country's leaders and the judicial system at the time of Lincoln's assassination.

-- State Representative Lyle Sattes The struggle to reform West Virginia's widely criticized school - finance system has entered a new and critical phase, one which may lead to renewed confrontation between the state's political and judicial leaders, according to officials tState Representative Lyle Sattes The struggle to reform West Virginia's widely criticized school - finance system has entered a new and critical phase, one which may lead to renewed confrontation between the state's political and judicial leaders, according to officials tstate's political and judicial leaders, according to officials there.

In Trinidad and Tobago, as a small developing country but one of the State leaders in the Caribbean, a major judicial challenge of the society is to escape the colonial shackles of its legal heritage and to create a body of laws, conventions and legal practices that are consistent with its indigenous culture and norms.

Only a handful of states (9) give the legislature or legislative leaders the power to name members to the judicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial Compjudicial disciplinary commission; a tenth (Oklahoma) lets the legislature pick 2 out of 3 members of a body that conducts preliminary investigations only (Council on Judicial CompJudicial Complaints).

A senate panel approved a bill that would expand the state's seven - member judicial nominating commission, adding two commissioners who would be appointed by the leaders of each chamber.

As a Practice Group Leader, he manages over 20 lawyers in nine offices across the United States while maintaining a broad environmental practice involving negotiation of real estate and corporate transactions, administrative and judicial litigation, regulatory enforcement defense, and development and implementation of corporate sustainability policies.

These senior level information officers come from both the state level and the trial court level, and will assist Judicial Branch leaders in resolving business and technology problems.

A plan to give legislative leaders picks on the state's judicial nominating commissions, at the expense of the governor, cleared its first legislative hurdle in late January.

From the challenges confronted in the organizations of courts, to the laws behind police officers lying under oath, this thought leader has some deep insight into the judicial system, private and public defense, and attitude towards criminal law in the state of New Mexico, US.

Some judicial leaders have suggested that state bars promote mentoring as a way to ensure that new lawyers receive guidance from experienced ones in how to engage in law practice in accordance with the duties, responsibilities and expectations of members of the legal profession.

Bowman and Brooke is a national leader in handling mass tort actions — including class actions, as well as actions consolidated by the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and state judicial authJudicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and state judicial authjudicial authorities.

Judicial leaders, such as Chief Judge Judith Kaye, who served on New York state's high court for 25 years, organized a national symposium on the need to «keep kids in school and out of court.»