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13 Jun 2011, 4:10 am
Some guidelines followed by the courts when reviewing disciplinary arbitration awards Matter of Watt v East Greenbush Cent. [read post]
5 May 2011, 8:44 am by Amanda Frost
  Although the law currently allows the federal courts of appeals to certify questions of law to the Supreme Court, the practice is rare. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 1:07 pm by Kim Zetter
Habeas motions, known as 2255 motions, can be used by convicted prisoners to assert defective counsel or other jurisdictional and constitutional issues outside of a direct appeal. [read post]
24 Mar 2011, 2:24 pm by Bruce Carton
" The Globe and Mail had an interesting article recently ('The judge who writes like a paperback novelist') (via How Appealing) about Ontario Court of Appeal Judge David Watt, who has become a bit of a sensation in criminal law circles as the result of a stark transformation in the way he writes his decisions. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 8:14 am by Jeralyn
” It seems like in the wake of Gall, Kimbrough, and Cunningham, the Court should reconsider and reverse Watts, ending the incredibly unfair practice of sentencing defendants based on conduct which a jury found they did not commit. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 8:35 pm
Ontario Court of Appeal Judge David Watt, a jurist once known for using complex sentence structure and legalistic embellishment, has transformed himself into a writer more in the vein of American best-selling novelist Elmore Leonard. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 7:53 pm by Orin Kerr
“If James Watt made more law than Lord Coke,” says the author in a moment of unwarranted exhilaration, “then the Wright Brothers outdid James Watt” (p. v); it is hardly convincing proof of this to find the cases on air law referring to such old friends as Gibbons v. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 7:53 pm by Orin Kerr
“If James Watt made more law than Lord Coke,” says the author in a moment of unwarranted exhilaration, “then the Wright Brothers outdid James Watt” (p. v); it is hardly convincing proof of this to find the cases on air law referring to such old friends as Gibbons v. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 2:39 pm by Dennis Crouch
  First, unlike most other federal legal questions appealed to regional Circuit Courts of Appeal, virtually all patent law related appeals from across the country are heard by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”). [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 12:48 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
On Thursday, Steven Watt from the ACLU's Human Rights Program will participate in a roundtable discussion on diplomatic assurances against torture at Columbia Law School in New York City. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 2:22 pm by Christopher Bird
A complex case, certainly, but Justice Watt always constructs his decisions in a very readable and organized manner.R. v. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 9:30 am
  The Ontario Court of Appeal has denied Enbridge's application for leave to appeal an earlier decision by the Superior Court which ordered a new trial in the case. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 2:50 pm by Christopher Bird
Regular readers of Court of Appeal decisions know that Justice Watt's Hemingwayesque introductions to his decisions are frequently lyrical, so before we discuss the decision, enjoy the introduction:[1] Explosions damage and destroy things. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 6:54 am by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
Governor O'Malley has appointed Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Shirley Watts to Maryland's Court of Special Appeals, according to the Baltimore Sun. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 10:43 am by Julie Lam
On December 14, 2010, the Court of Appeals published its per curiam opinion in Watts v Michigan Multi-King, No. 293185. [read post]