For non-lawyers who want an introduction to the judge-made system we call the common law, this book is the ideal primer.
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"The trouble is we judge Richard by a pseudo-Victorian values system, but we judge others in the context of their time, " she said.
Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System explains that the legal profession has self-serving tendencies.
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The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.
Last year, Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger - the top civil judge in England and Wales - said broadcasting trials could increase public confidence in the justice system, but warned that judges must have "full rights of veto" over what could be shown.
In tests last year at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, MLB experimented with the Hawk-Eye animation system that is used to judge line calls in tennis and the TrackMan radar software used by the PGA Tour.
The judge noted the governor has decided to impose a teacher-evaluation system on the city if the two sides can't reach a deal by June.
But other extradited Britons - including so-called NatWest Three banker David Bermingham, who was jailed for 37 months over an Enron-related fraud in a plea deal four years ago - have claimed the system empowers prosecutors as "judge, jury and executioner".
Until April 25, the public was given access on a first-come-first-served basis, but the judge changed it to a lottery system for closing arguments, the station reported.
The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.
The sport's world governing body has invited interested companies to submit bids to provide the system, which is used to judge when the ball crosses the goal-line.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), himself a former judge and chief justice in the Texas court system, pointedly challenged the Attorney General during the latter's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
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Why make wine-shipping the decision of a judge or series of judges up and down the crowded court system?
This may make sense as a way to judge a state (although there may be legitimate questions if it makes sense when moving to a competency-based learning system and away from one based on time), but it creates some problems for judging schools to where students are transferring in the midst of their high school experience.
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