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4 Sep 2012, 7:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Coupled with an overall decline in tickets written recently, both in Houston and statewide, the result is the justice system generating less revenue. [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 5:10 pm
If it's Thursday, (or sometime thereafter) it must be time for our weekly and weakly review of the opinions issued by that monument to justice in Kendall- the 3rd DCA.Speaking of Justice, we start with a rousing affirmation of a drug trafficking conviction of two Defendants in Lelieve v. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 12:56 pm
At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law, Justice Department, immigration court and other records show. [read post]
3 Sep 2006, 1:45 pm
Instead, Sarbanes-Oxley commands that the SEC appoint the Board members.In a joint brief with the Justice Department filed in federal district court for the District of Columbia, the SEC contended that the method for appointing Board members satisfies the Appointments Clause of the federal Constitution because the members are inferior US officers who can be appointed by Heads of Departments. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 4:24 am
"So what could happen is the Department of Justice could appoint an interim U.S. attorney for a period of 120 days. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 4:00 am by Michael Erdle
The system of private arbitrator appointments encourages a cozy relationship between some arbitrators and the companies that send them work. [read post]
17 May 2014, 3:05 am by SHG
The opinion was written by then-new Chief Justice Earl Warren, former three-term California Governor and Attorney General, a Republican appointed by Dwight D. [read post]
13 Jul 2017, 10:00 am by Jeannette Cooperman
In her book Advice and Consent: The Politics of Judicial Appointments, Epstein noted that justices tend to reflect the philosophies of the presidents who appointed them, at least for the first decade they’re on the court. [read post]
12 Jul 2009, 7:00 pm
  The problem, of course, is that Supreme Court Justices tend to serve for a long time, and relatively quickly the hot issues of the day change, so that the Justices are deciding issues as to which their appointing Presidents had no ken at all when appointing them. [read post]
22 Nov 2023, 1:24 pm by Courtney Finerty-Stelzner
(the monitor may, but need not be, the same monitor appointed as part of the company’s plea deal with DOJ). [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 5:00 pm by Stephen Wermiel
The non-delegation doctrine is not a phrase that flows readily from the lips of most law students or even most Supreme Court Justices. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 9:33 am
The Brennan Center for Justice, named for the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, has released, "Judge Sotomayor's Record in Constitutional Cases. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 1:31 pm by Aditya Bamzai
”  (In that case, Deputy Attorney General Comey appointed as a special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, at the time the U.S. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 6:45 am
In comments filedAug. 25 with the Department of Justice, the ABA said the proposed ruleignores key parts of the authorizing legislation and fails to follow whatCongress outlined. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 3:10 pm
The circumstances surrounding the Phillips appointment are beginning to come clear. [read post]
7 May 2008, 1:47 pm
  And, of course, she would double the number of women on the Court (or at least maintain it, if Justice Ginsburg retired). [read post]
The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from
6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua
Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. [read post]
The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section and the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society celebrated its Texas Appellate Hall of Fame 2019 inductees during an Advanced Civil Appellate Seminar in Austin on September 5. The award recognizes judges, attorneys, and court personnel who have made significant contributions to appellate law and who are no longer living. The 2019 inductees: Thomas J. Rusk—The third chief justice of Texas, Thomas Rusk was actually the first to preside over a Supreme Court session and authored its first opinion in 1840. Prior to his life on the bench, Rusk was a signatory to the Texas Declaration of Independence and was also the Texas Republic’s war secretary. He oversaw the burial of Col. James Fannin, who, along with his men, was executed at Goliad under orders from President Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna. Rusk led the final charge on Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Hortense Sparks Ward—When Hortense Ward passed the Texas bar exam in 1910—the first woman to do so—she set off a string of firsts. Among those milestones: the first female Texan to be licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. Pat Neff. The opinion issued (in a cause) has been cited numerous times by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Texas appellate courts. John L. Hill Jr.—As the attorney general of Texas, John Hill argued before the U.S. Supreme Court five times. He served as the Texas Supreme Court chief justice from 1984 until 1988 when he resigned to lead an effort to abolish the popular election of judges in the state. Hill, who also served as the Texas secretary of state, is the only person to have held all three titles. In 1997, he received a lifetime achievement award from
6 Sep 2019, 1:14 pm by Eric Quitugua
Supreme Court; special chief justice of the temporary all-woman Texas Supreme Court (the first state high court of its kind in the country) of January 1925 in a case involving a trustee of a fraternal order of which the all-male Texas Supreme Court were members; and the country’s first female chief justice after being appointed to the latter by Gov. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Berger
  By contrast, the Justices on the Warren Court may have tried to shape the law to reflect their own normative preferences, but they were usually not doing the bidding of the party whose president appointed them. [read post]