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7 Jul 2008, 5:11 pm
.; from Jefferson County; 9th district (09-06-00136-CV, ___ SW3d ___, 10-26-06)07-0122 MARGARITA B. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 5:56 am
Margarita Lopez Torres became the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit after Democratic leaders in Brooklyn blocked her from getting the party's nomination for a Supreme Court judgeship. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 5:47 am
Lopez Torres (pdf file) -- a challenge to New York's much-maligned system of electing trial judges -- neatly illustrates several points that I and my fellow teachers in this new course on law, politics and media were making yesterday in our first session. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 3:00 pm
While Margarita Lopez, a candidate for Manhattan Borough President, fought to retain $71,871. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 6:13 am
Brooklyn Surrogate Margarita Lopez Torres has granted the petition, disqualifying Zaccaria from overseeing Venezia's estate. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 6:13 am
Brooklyn Surrogate Margarita Lopez Torres has granted the petition, disqualifying Zaccaria from overseeing Venezia's estate. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 4:36 pm
A recent decision of Kings County Surrogate Margarita Lopez Torres in In Re Will Of Singer 841 N.Y.S.2d 212 has cost  a son his legacy under his father's will. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 9:20 am
Justice David Souter led the charge, repeatedly couching the asserted "burdens" on Judge Margarita Lopez Torres as burdens on her ability to influence the ultimate decision makers, not burdens on her ability to access the electoral process. [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 2:14 pm
It started in Brooklyn with an angry Civil Court Judge Margarita Lopez Torres trying to get on the ballot for a Supreme Court slot. [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 11:48 pm
Margarita López Torres, an aspiring candidate, argued in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York that certain elements of the convention system used in that state violate the First Amendment Rights of both the voting public and herself by concentrating an unfairly prodigious amount of power in the hands of political bosses. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 1:25 pm
Margarita Lopez Torres.As some of you will recall, in 2006, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found our current convention-based method of nominating candidates for election to the New York State Supreme Court violative of the United States Constitution.In effect,  since challenger candidates were denied meaningful participation in the… [read post]
17 May 2007, 1:25 pm
The battle in the Lopez-Torres case wages on.Judge Margarita Lopez-Torres had filed a federal lawsuit challenging the manner in which New York Supreme Court Justices were nominated for election. [read post]
30 Nov 2006, 2:25 pm
The New York State Board of Elections, the New York County Democratic Committee, the New York Republican State Committee, and the Associations of New York State Supreme Court Justices in the City and State of New York (among others) have filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari seeking to appeal the case of Margarita Lopez-Torres v. [read post]