Search for: "Judge Lee Yeakel" Results 21 - 40 of 70
Sorted by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
30 Oct 2008, 8:00 pm
John Ward of the Eastern District of Texas, and Judge Lee Yeakel of the Western District of Texas. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 11:20 am by Dani Selby
Last year, when United States District Judge Lee Yeakel overturned her murder conviction on her 37th birthday, it seemed like that wish might finally come true. [read post]
30 Mar 2010, 2:47 pm by Michael C. Smith
  As I mentioned the other day (and Judge Lee Yeakel confirmed to me a couple of weeks ago that yes, he said this, or at least wants credit for having said it) the worst words for a trial judge are not "reversed" but the next two words "... and remanded. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 9:33 pm by Eugene Volokh
Josh Blackman links to the briefs; here is the heart of Judge Lee Yeakel's decision blocking the restrictions: [T]he court finds that Plaintiffs have established a substantial likelihood of success on the merits of their claim that the Executive Order, as interpreted by the attorney general, violates Plaintiffs' patients' Fourteenth Amendment rights, which derive from the Bill of Rights, by effectively banning all abortions before viability. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 3:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The latest federal court ruling (pdf) on the subject, a preliminary injunction issued today barring assignment of "Condition X" to parolee Buddy Yeary, not only continues to maintain that the BPP can't apply sex-offender conditions without due process, it informs us that a new BPP policy to assign those conditions before parole, described here, will similarly fail to pass constitutional muster, though that issue wasn't squarely before the court.Wrote Judge Lee… [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 7:00 am by Lowell Brown
District Judge Lee Yeakel refused the transfer, noting that with the project and most of the project documentation being located in Texas, many witnesses would be unavailable to testify. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:11 am by SO Issues
District Judge Lee Yeakel of Austin, in an order issued late Friday, blasted the state's continuing refusal to provide due process hearings before imposing restrictive sex-offender conditions on felons never convicted of a sex crime. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 11:26 am by Ashley Belanger
In his decision, US District Judge Lee Yeakel affirmed that substantial evidence supported the jury’s verdict of patent infringement and sufficient evidence supported the damages that the jury awarded Voxer.Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
of 'indecisive, insensitive, inattentive, incompetent, stupid, (or) weak-kneed.'" Apparently Sparks' colleague Judge Yeakel has finally lost patience.At one point parole officials swore in court the board had assigned Condition X to around 7,000 parolees, but later offered lower figures. [read post]
9 Oct 2008, 7:12 pm
"Keller Immune to Justice," is Jordan Smith's report in the Austin Chronicle.According to federal district Judge Lee Yeakel's ruling last week, Court of Criminal Appeals presiding Judge Sharon Keller enjoys "judicial immunity," which insulates her from being sued for violating the civil rights of an executed inmate. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 8:01 am by George Ticoras, Esq.
District Judge Lee Yeakel is expected to conclude this week. [read post]
1 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm by Lyle Denniston
A federal district judge in Austin, Lee Yeakel, had blocked the privileges law from taking effect, but that was overturned by the Fifth Circuit, and the Supreme Court allowed enforcement to continue. [read post]
13 Feb 2019, 7:10 pm by Rebecca Barho
That case, before Judge Lee Yeakel, alleges the Service violated the Administrative Procedure Act in denying a petition to delist the Bone Cave harvestman. [read post]
18 May 2012, 3:17 pm by Michael Fox
  Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin denied the School's Motion to vacate award.The 5th Circuit first addressed whether Judge Yeakel's decision to allow the arbitrator to decide whether or not the matter could proceed as a class action was correct and concluded that it was.On the second issue, whether the arbitrator exceeded his powers in holding that it could proceed as a class action, the 5th Circuit found Judge Yeakel had… [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 2:18 pm by George Ticoras, Esq.
District Court Judge Lee Yeakel did uphold the city’s $300 contribution limit for mayoral and city council candidates, finding the limit a constitutional regulation of protected First Amendment activity. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 11:51 am by Steve Hall
" That ruling has been forwarded to Judge Lee Yeakel for consideration; Reed's attorneys Bryce Benjet and Andrew MacRae this week filed the new information, asking Yeakel to reject Austin's conclusions, to review all the available evidence, to hold an evidentiary hearing on the case, and, ultimately, to either retry or release Reed. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 3:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Judge Yeakel wouldn't allow it, though, issuing a temporary restraining order and ultimately removing Yeary's sex-offender conditions. [read post]