Until a few days ago, the head of the court system was Judge Calvin Johnson.
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.
"The trouble is we judge Richard by a pseudo-Victorian values system, but we judge others in the context of their time, " she said.
Why make wine-shipping the decision of a judge or series of judges up and down the crowded court system?
"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.
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.
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.
Fifteen years ago a federal judge effectively seized control of the Kansas City, Missouri, school system.
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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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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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.
Judge JOHNSON: And that became just a true stumbling block to an efficient operation of a system.
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.
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