Sentences with phrase «what district judges»

In particular, there has been little empirical (statistical) analysis of what district judges actually do.

I think you are right, Greg, that this could be a wide - spread problem in all settings in which circuits are setting judge - made ground rules for what district judges can and can not do.

On appeal, King J did not accept that the judge had treated the case as a «sharing» case, as opposed to a «needs» case and confirmed that the district judge had regarded the husband's bonus as part of the maintenance award: «What the district judge was saying... was that historically the standard of living of this family... was dependant on H's bonus... Had the proportions been different, (more income less bonus), he would have made the basic maintenance award higher.

Not exact matches

«If you think for a moment that I'm going to stay my hand because your guy is taking the Fifth Amendment, and not issue a preliminary injunction to shut down what happened here, you're wrong,» U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup said, according to the transcript.

In the case of religious expression, having a government authority like a school district abuse their authority by forcing the graduating class to listen to only one religious viewpoint and prayer is reprehensible from a legal standpoint regardless of what corrupt judge you find to rule differently.

What the correct legal status now is of Judge Vaughn Walker's bizarre district court ruling is an interesting question.

At the time, there was discussion over what an «improper physical relationship» actually meant (as well as the meaning of «is»), and whether oral sex fit under what a U.S. District Judge's defined as when a «person knowingly engages in or causes contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.»

The two attorneys are to reappear Friday before U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo in what had been scheduled as a session to update the judge on settlement discussJudge Ruben Castillo in what had been scheduled as a session to update the judge on settlement discussjudge on settlement discussions.

Lipton suggests that Smith's supporters «carefully consider» what to say to US District Court Judge Kenneth Karas to help him «come to know Malcolm as a person» and persuade him that the former senator «deserves a lenient and merciful sentence.»

«It is life, it is politics, it is what happens,» U.S. District Court Judge Joan M. Azrack, who is presiding over the corruption trial of Mangano, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto and Mangano's wife, Linda, said at one point.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — John Gallagher, the former Facilities Director for the City School District of New Rochelle, was back in White Plains Federal Court Thursday for a status conference to update Judge Kenneth M. Karas on what has taken place since Gallagher was last in court of May 24th.

-- SCHUMER»S FAILED COURT MANEUVER — Buffalo News» Jerry Zremski: «No one wants Buffalo to have its first female district court judge more than Charles E. Schumer, but he made a mistake that cost him what he wanted.

The people of New York need and demand «fair dealing» and if the pols and the judge can't do it, then put it in a computer and generate neutral districts going north to south or east to west, on the basis of population alone and let people work together and compromise for their common good — that's what America is about and what American's are supposed to do — isn't it?

The Ulster County District Attorney's Office had recommended Phillips, who was 17 at the time he had the loaded handgun, be given five years in prison, but County Judge Donald A. Williams said that, based on what he heard during Thursday's hearing, he was convinced that Phillips was «most certainly» affiliated with and likely a full - fledged member of the Bloods street gang.

WASHINGTON — No one wants Buffalo to have its first female district court judge more than Charles E. Schumer, but he made a mistake that cost him what he wanted.

The governor's reforms would allow district attorneys like Mr. Donovan to issue a report or letter of fact outlining what occurred in closed grand jury room in cases of police killings, without having to beseech a judge to release that information.

Hanging over the process is what U.S. District Court Judge Gary Sharpe will do.

«The way we elect judges is ridiculous and undemocratic, we have to have a broader vision of what a district leader is expected to do.»

Silver's lawyers, while entering a not guilty plea for him on Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Valerie Caproni, argued that Bharara broke rules about what prosecutors can say outside court and may have prejudiced the grand jury that indicted Silver.

The judges in the redistricting case, Reena Raggi and Gerard E. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Dora L. Irizarry of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, noted that the magistrate judge they assigned to draw the new map managed to do in just two weeks what lawmakers «have been unable, or unwilling, to provide New York State voters in more than a year.»

Long Island Democrats are increasingly optimistic — thanks to a federal judge, Republican rivalries, and what they see as a lagging Trump campaign — that they'll be able to hold on to the North Shore's Third Congressional District seat being vacated by longtime US Rep. Steve Israel, the outgoing chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Shelly Silver will stay out of jail for what looks to be another year, thanks to US District Court Judge Valerie Caproni's ruling Thursday that the disgraced former Assembly speaker can remain free on bail pending his appeal of his... Continue reading →

Inside the courthouse, U.S. District Judge Joan M. Azrack asked 51 potential jurors — one by one — about their jobs, what they do in their spare time, their favorite television shows and which public figures they admire.

Shelly Silver will stay out of jail for what looks to be another year, thanks to US District Court Judge Valerie Caproni's ruling Thursday that the disgraced former Assembly speaker can remain free on bail pending his appeal of his landmark corruption conviction.

The judge, Valerie E. Caproni of Federal District Court, said a number of jurors» answers suggested that they had had a problem with what they had read about the former speaker.

Morinello, a retired Niagara Falls city judge, said if he wins the election, «All municipalities, school districts, not - for - profits and taxpayers will be notified of what funds or grants are available and the process by which they can apply.

Former Circuit Judge Robert Doyel, a Winter Haven Democrat and candidate for Senate District 22, is receiving what no other Polk County Democrat has received in more than two decades: support from his state party.

Years after the Kingston City School District joined seven other small - city school districts in suing the state for what plaintiffs claimed were funding inequities, a judge ruled this week that the state had met its «constitutional obligation» in providing those districts with enough money.

Even the cost estimates for achieving current outcomes are speculative; the CEP asks its panels of experts to judge what «a hypothetical average school district» would have to spend to produce the current outcome levels.

The distinctive contribution of Dunn's book is to emphasize the degree to which the district judge was not acting arbitrarily (though to some degree he was), but was constrained in what he could do by an appeals court following Supreme Court decisions.

Judge Clark found the state and the school district liable for segregation, and then the issue became, what was the remedy?

In what experts are calling the most significant court test to date of the concept of «comparable worth,» a federal district judge ruled this month that the state of Washington was guilty of wage discrimination in paying women employees less than men performing similar kinds of work.

What's more, the criteria seek to judge states on how much support their reform plans have from the community, including local school districts that plan to participate in Race to the Top - financed initiatives.

School by school, parent by parent, district by district, those questions will be explored now that Connecticut has completed its first year of SBAC testing, and, if we can judge by what is happening in New York where implementation of the Common Core and the taking of a Common Core aligned test is a year ahead of Connecticut, it seems reasonable to believe that opting - out will increase.

This is what it boils down to: many of California's school districts thought it was unfair to judge their schools as failing because they served large numbers of challenged students whose growth and progress wasn't fairly measured by a narrow set of tests.

The Legislature's intent was to strictly limit what school districts could do, and it wrote a law that «does not empower school districts to classify taxpayers and property, and impose different tax rates,» the judges wrote.

Think about your own school or district: What are the standards by which your organization can and should be judged as meeting world class standards?

The proposal, which was prompted by the scandal enveloping the Los Angeles Unified School District over the long career of former Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, who now faces 23 charges of what the law politely calls lewd acts upon a child, arose the ire of the two unions because it would have allowed school districts to suspend teachers accused of alleged sexual and substance abuse crimes without pay and allowed dismissals to be presented before an administrative law judge instead of the usual three - person panel of the state's Professional Competence commission that is largely slated in favor of NEA and AFT.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant affirmed his preliminary ruling this week, finding that the district has violated a 40 - year - old state law, known as the Stull Act, requiring that evaluations of teachers and principals include measures of how much students learn what the state and district expects them to know.

Some questions were directed at the district judge's rationale for ruling in the case, others questioned what authority the Texas Education Agency (TEA) had to require school districts to improve local practice.

After a U.S. District Court judged found Apple guilty of colluding with book publishers to fix the prices of e-books last month, it was unclear what the actual consequences would be for the iPad - maker.

Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson deliberated for months over what to do with the dogs impounded from Vick: 66 in all, 48 of whom remained in custody after 13 dogs other than pit bulls were rehomed by local humane societies, one dog believed to be a pit bull but later officially called «not a pit bull» was returned to an owner who was not charged in the case, and five pit bulls either died or were euthanized due to dangerous behavior.

District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown's environmental crusade a stinging rebuke when he ruled that it was impossible to determine to what extent automakers are responsible for global - warming damages in California.

U.S. District Judge Anita Brody described Bean's crime as «extremely malicious» and said, «You have to be blind to what's going on in this world not to know the effect of cyberbullying on present - day society.»

What I think will end up happening is that the Supreme Court will vacate and remand in Gall and Kimbrough, make clear that district judges have lots of authority to move up and down, and then eventually the Supreme Court will take on of Scalia's hypotheticals (there are undoubtedly cases in the pipeline that fit Scalia's hypotheticals).

U.S. District Judge William J. Nealon agreed, adopting what he said was Carlson's «well - reasoned» report and recommendation.

The district judge at trial agreed with Jones and, having found the presumption rebutted, considered what was «fair and just» with regard to the course of dealings between the parties, awarding Jones a 90 % share in the property.

In considering what she describes as «the difficult position in which District Judge Million found himself» she asks rhetorically: «So what was he to do?»

Clerking with a magistrate judge is slightly more limited in scope as their remit is constrained by what federal district judges assign them.

When electronic discovery disputes get heated in his courtroom, Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court in Kansas has a simple strategy: «If someone comes to me and says, «So and so is impossible to deal with and we can't get a deal done,» I tell them, «Well, videotape the next [discovery conference] and let me watch it to see what's going on.»