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Some of what Liptak identifies as increased hiring of Supreme Court law clerks from Republican circuit judges simply reflects the increased number of law clerks from Republican circuit judges because there are today more Republican circuit court judges.
FORBES: NY Times Court Clerks Story Misses Broader Shift in Judiciary
You are the judges of the law and the facts and the appropriate sanction.
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She says without more gender sensitivity among police and judges, no law for women will be enforced.
He did so without consulting the judges or the Law Society of Kenya.
This is what the rogue administrative law judges exposed by the article in The Wall Street Journal have been doing.
For example, judges shape the law without being elected, and rightly so, since they bring dispassionate expertise to the task.
Several administrative law judges said the firm has since stopped the practice.
Several administrative law judges say Binder's business model is based on volume.
The UK's then highest judges, the Law Lords, decided that officers had no right to order the coaches to turn back to London.
In their decision, the judges noted state law provided "a mechanism for release from prison on medical parole" if a defendant becomes terminally ill.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has both an investigatory department and an adjudicatory department made up of 40 Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) that hear and decide cases.
The number of attacks on prosecutors, judges and senior law enforcement officers in the U.S. has spiked in the past three years, according to Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County, Calif.
Following Bloomberg's mandate to streamline city services, her department has made it easier for drivers to track and challenge tickets online and has ordered its administrative law judges to look for the most common errors.
About 3.3 million people sought benefits in 2011, and at the end of September a record 771, 318 were waiting to have their cases heard on appeal by administrative law judges, according to the latest government data.
WSJ: Backlog of Social Security Disability Cases Leaves the Terminally Ill Waiting
It's now up to the the country's most senior judges, the Law Lords, to decide if a public procession that is apparently not organised and follows a random route, is one that can be defined as "commonly or customarily held".
Those tempted to dismiss the report of a leading conservative Senator known for being unforgiving of government waste should note that the SSA also concluded in an internal review that 22 percent of disability awards made by Administrative Law Judges had errors and used incomplete evidence.
The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
The Chicago Bar Association has fashion shows complete with judges (this is law, after all).
UN, is struggling to bring in foreign judges to help oversee law and order.
Whatever it suggests, a means should be found to stage trials that are indisputably fair, before a panel of independent judges, administering international law.
Judges who understand the law know it is their duty to inquire into the value of a settlement on behalf of absent class members.
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Since judges like to make law these days, perhaps the Supreme Court could mandate that the Iowa approach be used in the other 49 states.
When judges ruled against the law, they got long front-page stories.
First the tension: Starting about a half-century ago, some clever academics and sympathetic judges began rewriting tort law so that plaintiffs could sue manufacturers more easily for supposedly defective products.
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Allowing judges to halt any law for months or years, based on their opinion about possible procedural shortcomings in how it was passed, or quickly resolving the question of whether the law can be enacted?
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The UTC was released in 2000 after six years of work by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws--a group of lawyers, judges, legislators and law professors that makes recommendations to the states on statutes covering such areas as contracts and family matters.
So it is that the Queen's Speech will include plans for a new law specifically aimed at judges who remain unconvinced, as Mrs May puts it, "that the law is what Parliament says it is, not what they think it should be".
Instead of handing the lucrative work to the first law firm that filed a case, judges were supposed to appoint the combination of plaintiff and law firm that best represented the interests of the class.
All over the world there is now much more economics taught in law schools, more lawyers and judges are familiar with economics, and more economists are concentrating on law-related work.
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