Search for: "OPINION OF THE JUSTICES TO THE GOVERNOR" Results 1541 - 1560 of 2,859
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
4 May 2010, 5:20 pm by SOIssues
Back in 1980 when Jerry Brown was governor, there were about 30,000 people in California prisons, roughly the same as in Texas and New York. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 1:13 pm by kwalters
States as Potential Models As Tollen noted, “Forty-eight of our state governors cannot fire their AG at will, so they can’t avoid justice through control of state prosecutors. [read post]
11 May 2011, 3:42 pm by Gideon
Connecticut’s capitulation to the person in question is well documented: our former Governor Rell repeatedly invoked his name in defeating criminal justice and death penalty abolition bills. [read post]
24 May 2011, 8:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Plata (see the opinion), ordering them to lower the number of state prison inmates by as many as 38-46,000. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 3:47 pm by Popehat
Sarah works for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (though the opinions expressed here are her own) and is interested in free speech and civil liberties. [read post]
This post is the third of a five-part series on litigation about mail voting during the 2020 general election. [read post]
2 Dec 2023, 7:25 pm by Jim Lindgren
" Justice Chase thus went out of his way to say that the very language in his opinion which the Amar brothers rely on is dicta and not the holding. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 11:15 am by Marc Poirier
The 2006 opinion arguably leftthe door open for a return trip to court. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 5:58 am by Benjamin Wittes
That is to say, Bob was appointed by the Justice Department, is an officer of the Justice Department, and is operating under the policies and directives of the Justice Department. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 6:19 am by Steven M. Gursten
Justice Cavanagh’s majority opinion defines “affect the person’s ability to lead his or her normal life is to have an influence on some of the person’s capacity to live in his or her normal manner of living. [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 11:19 am
As the Times noted, the judge would have to retire next year, at the age of 70, and that would open a vacancy for presumptive Democratic Governor Spitzer. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 11:41 am by Steven Calabresi
I agree with Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in Hollingsworth v. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 8:29 am by Bill Raftery
A judicious peace loving and peace making officer of this kind may be more useful, far more useful than the first judge of your State, whom you propose to dignify with title of Chief Justice of Ohio. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 9:38 am by Cindy Cohn
Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion in Youngstown set forth the analytical framework that has come to define this area of law. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 5:00 pm
After all, we endured endless discussions about what obstruction of justice entailed during the recent impeachment of the president. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 6:23 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
In 2014 former mayors of Detroit and New Orleans and former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell were charged or convicted of political malfeasance. [read post]
28 Mar 2020, 5:00 pm
After all, we endured endless discussions about what obstruction of justice entailed during the recent impeachment of the president. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 3:39 pm by Nelson Tebbe
In an opinion by Justice Kennedy, the Court invalidated the amendment under the Equal Protection Clause, saying that it must have been motivated by animus. [read post]
Gore, Justice Thomas joined a concurring opinion written by then-Chief Justice Rehnquist that adopts the posture put forth by the theory. [read post]