Sentences with phrase «state judicial races»

Indeed, tort reform has become the primary issue in most state judicial races.

Not exact matches

In the judicial races, eight candidates are seeking four state Supreme Court judgeships, each a 14 - year term.

Now that he is formally no longer a judicial candidate after taking what he laughingly described as a «brutal» beating in the Bronx state Supreme Court race, Rick Lazio is «freed» — as he put it — to tell us how he really feels.

Because of this year's presidential race and the Legislature's failure to come to an agreement on recombining the congressional and state votes after a 2012 judicial decision split them, Tuesday will be the third opportunity for some voters to cast primary votes this year.

Robert White, well he can not be moved into a judicial race, it is true... but we could hope that Doug Hoffman gets off the ballot line by moving out of state or....

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.

David Denenberg will remain on the State Senate ballot in November, as county Democrats said they would allow a deadline to switch him to a judicial race to pass.

An Order to Show Cause, adjudicated by Saratoga County's Supreme Court Judge Robert Chauvin, temporarily held up the ballot counting, which delayed the final vote tallies on all races throughout the state's Fourth Judicial District.

An Order to Show Cause presented to Chauvin had temporarily held up the ballot counting, which delayed the final vote tallies on all races throughout the state's Fourth Judicial District.

While I'm sensitive to the atrocities committed by the police and judicial system in DETROIT, I can't help but admit that I don't need its message to suddenly become aware of race relations in the United States.

Well, civil justice fans, the people have spoken, and despite injecting wads of cash into local judicial and attorney general races, the so - called «tort reform» crowd suffered some stinging defeats at the state level.

North Carolina recently became the first state in nearly a century to switch from nonpartisan to partisan judicial races.

About 220 candidates are running in the state's partisan judicial races to be decided next week.

Roy Schotland, a «Georgetown University law professor and expert on judicial elections,» succinctly sums it up: «[S] tate judicial races are increasingly becoming «floating auctions,» in which special - interest groups focus money and manpower in states where they can upend judges they don't like.

With the expecting signing this week of a bill to transition West Virginia judicial races from partisan to nonpartisan, the number of states with partisan judicial races for their courts of last resort (usually called supreme court) will decrease down to 8.