But Stone has endorsed Priscilla Owen , Texas Supreme Court Justice, for a federal appellate court judge, and that, Novak says, has brought criticism from other pro- choice Republican groups, including Jennifer Stockman of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition.
After the intelligence failures in Iraq, Bush appointed the nine-member commission led by Laurence Silberman, a senior federal appellate court judge and a Republican who was in the Nixon and Ford administrations, and former Sen. and Virginia Gov. Chuck Robb, a Democrat.
Often a trial judge or appellate court will reject or reduce a steep verdict.
As an official in the Reagan administration, an appellate judge and on the Supreme Court, the chief justice has compiled a consistently conservative record.
Despite the applause Judge Rakoff received, however, an appellate court rejected his decision in a preliminary ruling.
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Finally, in the next sentence of her speech, Sotomayor went on to specify that she was addressing the dynamics of an appellate court with multiple judges (such as the three-judge and en banc panels on which she sits as an appeals court judge and the Supreme Court), rather than talking about a trial court context in which a single judge presides.
Voters were so unhappy with Judge Maag that they kicked him off the local appellate court too.
"The notion that appellate court decisions are to be interpreted by the 'feelings' of the judge is a direct affront of the basic premise of our judicial system that is supposed to apply the law without personal emotion, " Huckabee said in a statement.
Born in Deoband, India, Usmani was a judge on the Shariah Court in Pakistan and on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court, a position he occupied for more than 20 years.
"Given the high burden appellate courts impose for reversing a district court's findings of fact, Waterkeeper Alliance will not appeal Judge Nickerson's decision, " the group said in a statement.
As a punitive sanction, an appellate court ruled the girl cannot testify unless she shows her records to, at the very least, Racine Circuit Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz for a closed-door review.
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