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3 Apr 2024, 7:49 pm
Challenging Ronald Dworkin’s optimistic account of judges as chain-novelists who can creatively bend the arc of the law towards justice, Cover contends that judges are generally uncreative members of violence-dispensing organizations. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 7:49 pm
Challenging Ronald Dworkin’s optimistic account of judges as chain-novelists who can creatively bend the arc of the law towards justice, Cover contends that judges are generally uncreative members of violence-dispensing organizations. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 7:01 pm
Some judges posed extreme hypotheticals. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 4:14 pm
: Oklahoma judge thinks law enforcement needs to speed up the murder train. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 4:08 pm
Since the Supreme Court decided Daubert, the Federal Judicial Center and National Academies of Science have provided a Reference Manual for Scientific Evidence, now in its third edition, and with a fourth edition on the horizon, to assist judges and lawyers involved in the litigation of scientific issues. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 4:05 pm
While authoritarian movements express a desire to return to a mythic and exclusionary past, originalism tethers judges to the intent, values, and practices of the Framers, necessarily invoking deeply flawed periods in U.S. history marked by hierarchy and disenfranchisement. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 4:00 pm
The post Judge in Trump’s New York ‘Hush Money’ Case Won’t Delay Trial first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 3:02 pm
LAD claims are specifically excluded from the restrictions of the Punitive Damage Acts [PDA].Judge Currier, P.J.A.D., wrote, "'[P]laintiff presented a case from which the jury could have found especially egregious conduct by clear and convincing evidence.' Pritchett, slip op. at 79 (emphasis added). [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 2:46 pm
Story by Paul Blumenthal Judge David Godbey, the chief judge of the Northern Texas federal district court division, told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on March 29 that his court would not follow new guidelines meant to curtail the practice of “judge shopping,” a strategy that conservatives have increasingly used to strike down the policies of President Joe Biden. *** After being criticized by national Democrats and even federal… [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 2:34 pm
The efforts are approaching middle age, by the standards against which such things are sometimes judged--almost a decade since the initiation of the process of undoing the grave error that was represented by the UNGP project and its deviation from the orthodoxy of public sector primacy, the imperium of 19th century law models (appropriately patched up to serve some purpose in the 21st century) and restore the world (or at least their world) to the sanity of the Norms project now written… [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 1:34 pm
As Judge Randolph put it, “the Board’s majority and its General Counsel, at least at the time of these proceedings, should have brushed up on the ancient and wise legal doctrine de minimis non curat lex—that is, the law does not concern itself with trifles. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 1:15 pm
News Bulletinhttps://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html This week, in brief: In a major ruling, Montana Supreme Court strikes down 4 elections bills Project seeks to gather Alaska environmental knowledge embedded in Indigenous languages Wyoming can no longer use a 30-year-old case to prosecute Tribal hunters, judge finds SCOTUS hears arguments about a case involving federal health funding for the Northern Arapaho Tribe New online collection seeks to… [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 1:11 pm
In federal criminal courts, when a person is convicted of a drug offense with a minimum mandatory sentence provision, there are only two ways that allow a federal judge to go below that statutory minimum mandatory sentence: a 5K motion filed by the federal prosecutor if the client provides substantial assistance to the government or the safety valve provision of 18 U.S.C. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:44 pm
However, WCAB panel decisions are not binding precedent, as are en banc decisions, on all other Appeals Board panels and workers’ compensation judges. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:34 pm
“They needed somebody who is very specialized to explain it to the judge in this hearing, and they asked me to do that, and I was very happy to do it,” Reiss said. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:29 pm
Judge Kaplan is partially right here. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:22 pm
Indeed, the court emphasized that the need for a prior judicial authorization "is consistent with the role of guarantors of human rights that corresponds to judges in a democratic system, whose necessary independence enables the exercise of objective control, in accordance with the law, over the actions of other organs of public power. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 12:15 pm
The post Special Counsel Threatens To Go To 11th Circuit, Reminds Judge Cannon What Happened The Last Time She Tried This Shit appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 11:26 am
Credit also goes to the defense team from Greenberg Traurig and Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 11:14 am
The judge told prison staff to 'suck it up.' The post Cold-Hearted Judge Demands State Kill People Faster appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
