Search for: "Robert Merrick" Results 241 - 260 of 467
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
8 Jun 2018, 3:07 pm by Andrew Hamm
An ad hoc committee on law clerk hiring, comprised of Chief Judges Merrick Garland, Robert Katzman, Sidney Thomas and Diana Wood, proposed the plan after a letter signed by more than 100 law school deans indicated that the present practice, in which students are hired for clerkships after their first year, “altered the first-year experience, raised important distributional concerns, and undermined our faculties’ ability to provide judges with the information they need… [read post]
7 Jun 2018, 12:36 pm by Adam Feldman
With the failed nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and Gorsuch’s subsequent nomination and confirmation, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority remained intact after the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
16 May 2018, 10:37 pm by Anthony Gaughan
Roberts, in particular, is sometimes a hard justice to read. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 5:19 am by Eugene Volokh
Everyone knows that Merrick Garland would have voted with their liberals to reaffirm Abood. [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Unlike the approach for the plaintiffs in one of the two pending cases, we would then not need a formula and a cutoff for “wasted votes” that would trigger judicial remedies.To be clear, I think that those plaintiffs should win their case, and there is nothing wrong (notwithstanding Chief Justice Roberts’s description of their theory as “sociological gobbledygook”) with the idea of using statistical evidence to determine when partisan redistricting has gone too… [read post]
10 Apr 2018, 2:40 pm
I am happy to report the publication of my article,  "The Corporate Social Responsibilities of Financial Institutions for the Conduct of their Borrowers: The View From International Law and Standards," Lewis & CLark Law Review 21(4):881-920 (2018). [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 4:05 pm by Laura Orr
ICYMI (October 2017):  From Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice blog post: “Roberts Choice of Garland to Head Executive Committee of Federal Judicial Conference is a Huge ATJ Opportunity,“ posted on November 23, 2017, by Richard Zorza: Excerpt: Continue reading → [read post]
23 Jan 2018, 4:05 pm by Laura Orr
ICYMI (October 2017):  From Richard Zorza’s Access to Justice blog post: “Roberts Choice of Garland to Head Executive Committee of Federal Judicial Conference is a Huge ATJ Opportunity,“ posted on November 23, 2017, by Richard Zorza: Excerpt: Continue reading → [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 7:39 am by Stephen Wermiel
Chief Justice Roberts (Art Lien) What was especially interesting about the most recent appointments, announced on October 10, was that Roberts selected Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 3:00 am by Robert Kreisman
District Court Judge Robert Gettleman dismissed the Janus lawsuit, which occurred several months after the deadlocked decision in Friedrichs. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 11:23 am by Andrew Kent
” This per curiam opinion was issued for Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kagan. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 9:20 am by NCC Staff
President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, was denied consideration last year. [read post]
9 Jun 2017, 7:19 am by Edith Roberts
Q: How do you think Scalia would have felt about the Senate’s refusal to hold hearings on Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the vacancy left by Scalia’s death? [read post]
21 May 2017, 4:28 am by SHG
With the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the Russian involvement, his opponents see impeachment as imminent. [read post]
20 May 2017, 5:23 am by Matthew Kahn
Susan argued that precedent would support the appointment of a respected federal judge to take the position, even if that judge is not Merrick Garland. [read post]
16 May 2017, 1:02 pm by Susan Hennessey
Bush-appointee Republican Robert Mueller for two additional years and then selected James Comey, who was a registered Republican prior to his appointment). [read post]
2 May 2017, 12:56 pm by Adam S. Greenfield
Prior to Justice Scalia’s passing, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts had limited employment discrimination laws put in place to protect workers. [read post]