Sentences with phrase «supreme court justices»

The president picks the next supreme court justices, and that's what makes the real difference in this country.

She's more than an associate supreme court justice — to her surprise, she's become a pop culture icon.

Kahn, a former state Supreme Court justice who was appointed a federal judge in 1996, recently instructed both sides to stop filing legal arguments, saying he has enough information to decide the key pre-trial issues on injury and diminution of property values.

ALBANY — The state's leading gun rights organization has halted its lawsuit looking to strike down Gov. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law because of the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Armie Hammer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) has signed on to star opposite Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) in On the Basis of Sex, a biopic of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Following a controversial New York Times editorial by former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment, we asked readers to respond, offering not only the news of Stevens» stance, but also a Chicago Tribune editorial taking the other side of the issue.

In a speech at the University of Chicago Law School in May, United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized, not for the first time, the court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion in the U.S..

And travel he does — usually at least once a month, whether he goes to Philadelphia to testify as an expert witness at a malpractice trial or to Washington, D.C., to sip Chablis at an oyster tasting with such luminaries as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Professor Marder, who clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, teaches courses on civil procedure and on juries, judges and trials.

Under the test, first proposed by Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor in a 1984 case from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a display violates the Establishment Clause if it amounts to an official endorsement of religion, that is, if it suggests that the government approves a particular religious message (or disapproves such a message, though that issue does not regularly arise).

According to a recent article about the favourite literary references used by current US Supreme Court justices in their judgments, Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll top the list.

Multnomah County Library has selected United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's «My Beloved World» for its 12th annual community reading project, Everybody Reads 2014.

He'll also be seen in Marshall, the big screen biopic of first African - American US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, played by one Chadwick Boseman.

WASHINGTON, DC — The retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor dramatically changes the court's composition by removing a crucial moderate voice that has often been at the heart of protecting women's health and rights.

He also has an extensive public service career, serving as Supreme Court Justice in Ecuador, as Senior Legal Adviser of the Constitutional Tribunal and Undersecretary of the Department of Labor.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Richard Platkin, the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals all ruled against Carter, finding that judges can not force district attorneys to bring a criminal case and call witnesses.

That started in March when Albany County State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin dismissed charges against a former teacher who was accused of having sex with a student at an Albany school for troubled youngsters.

Chloe Bell, currently assistant to Lord Mance, said: «It is a real privilege to have the opportunity to engage with Supreme Court Justices on some of the most interesting legal issues in the country and to learn from the advocates involved in them.»

A State Supreme Court justice on Friday blocked the Bloomberg administration's plan to create a new class of livery cabs, a setback in the city's effort to expand street hail service beyond Manhattan.

SBLI (Savings Bank Life Insurance) was founded in 1907 by future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

A Super PAC aligned with Senate Democrats is airing a new ad aimed at New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, linking her refusal to consider a new Supreme Court justice with the front - runner of the GOP presidential primary.

A constitutional amendment passed by Brazil's Congress has raised the mandatory retirement limit for Supreme Court justices from 70 to 75 years of age.

Today, the same judge, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Braun, ruled in favor of the Republicans, writing:

As a textualist largely in the mold of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Gorsuch has frequently advocated for interpreting laws based solely on text, regardless of the desirability of the outcomes.

Joan Kenney, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice who called a Daily News reporter «a wiseass,» was demoted and will preside over a lower court.

The job of distributing Blott & Co.'s clients to new counsel will fall to retired B.C. Supreme Court justice Ian Pitfield.

In 2008, the first African American Supreme Court Justice in Wisconsin was also the first sitting justice to lose his seat on that court in 40 years:

There is at least one economist on the faculty of each of the top law schools in the U.S., the study says, and it notes that prominent lawyers with economics training include Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Justices Richard A. Posner and Frank Easterbrook.

President Barack Obama signed a bill Friday that names Buffalo's new federal courthouse in memory of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson.

I remember reading about former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.

Kirsten: There's an article in The New York Times about Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens basically making this argument that for the first 200 years of the country it was just accepted that the Second Amendment was understood to protect a well - regulated militia.

But it lost this case, and several appeals, scoring only a minor victory last April when a New York supreme court justice ruled that SUNY Stony Brook had to appear in court to defend its possession of the animals.

He landed interviews to clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Justice Antonin Scalia, but he didn't get the job.

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told President Obama Monday not to nominate a «judicial activist» to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.»

His office confirmed that acting Supreme Court Justice James F.X. Doyle rejected the motion.

A panel of Supreme Court justices said on Thursday that prosecutors, judges and jurors had to take a different approach when dealing with defendants accused of being involved in some kinds of joint criminal enterprises.

And fairness, as Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said, is what justice really is.

It also includes mid-career and powerful art world figures such as Marilyn Minter, Angela Dufresne, Jane Dickson, Kyle Staver, and Katherine Bradford, with her painting «Supreme,» referencing female Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.

However, criminal cases went to the Supreme Court only when «there has been a dissent on a question of law in the provincial Court of Appeal or where the acquittal of an accused has been reversed by the Court of Appeal», as noted by former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci.

And some of it had to do with the topic of this Journal article: how Supreme Court justices do not simply uncover the original meaning of constitutional texts.

On Nov. 18, Saratoga County Supreme Court Justice Robert Chauvin lifted the court order that had delayed vote tabulation for nine days — and county elections officials began counting outstanding paper ballots.

The Bucktails nominated Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Yates for Governor, and Erastus Root for Lieutenant Governor.