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.
Until a few days ago, the head of the court system was Judge Calvin Johnson.
New York City has forfeited hundreds of millions of state and federal dollars because union and city officials haven't agreed on a new evaluation system that would judge teachers, in part, on student test scores.
For excessive fees, they offered underwater borrowers the false hope they could somehow keep their homes without paying for them, either by challenging the foreclosure paperwork or convincing a judge that the national registry system known as MERS was not the legitimate party to foreclose.
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Almost all appointments or promotions being decided within the system, a junior judge does not lightly refuse a favour to a senior one.
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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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.
Speaking at the launch of the scheme in October, the judge said he believed the new system could cut the time it took for offenders to be dealt with by the courts.
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Judge John Roll served our legal system for nearly 40 years. (Applause.) A graduate of this university and a graduate of this law school -- (applause) -- Judge Roll was recommended for the federal bench by John McCain 20 years ago -- (applause) -- appointed by President George H.
Valley folk point out that Judge Jackson thinks that a computer operating system and Internet browsing software should be separate.
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.
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".
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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The judge said setting this precedent would clog the court system with charges for every player who threw an elbow under a basket or anyone who ever threw a punch on an ice rink.
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It proposes a system of preliminary hearings in which a judge could throw out spurious cases, and would, crucially, have the power to cap costs, so that one side or the other couldn't run up huge bills, with the implicit threat of financial ruin if costs were awarded against the other.
Upholding the charges "would greatly damage the confidence and trust of the public in the fairness and effectiveness of the criminal justice system, and rightly so, " the judge wrote.
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.
Why make wine-shipping the decision of a judge or series of judges up and down the crowded court system?
As their civil retrial ended in Belfast a judge was told Colm Murphy has no confidence in the justice system.
But Merck doesn't have much experience in central nervous system drugs, whose success is more difficult to judge than heart drugs like Mevacor, Prinivil and Zocor.
Over a distinguished career that spans three decades, Judge Sotomayor has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice.
"Over a distinguished career that spans three decades, Judge Sotomayor has worked at almost every level of our judicial system, providing her with a depth of experience and a breadth of perspective that will be invaluable as a Supreme Court justice, " Obama said.
He also said her stint trying criminal cases as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan after her graduation from Yale Law School, corporate law experience and time as a trial judge gave her an edge because she has seen the judicial system from many perspectives.
Fifteen years ago a federal judge effectively seized control of the Kansas City, Missouri, school system.
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.
Collectively, these plans will open the justice system in an unprecedented manner, allowing the public to judge for themselves how we are performing and to hold us to account.
"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.
Where do we derive the laws that the court system hews to, and how do we determine who is judge and jury?
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