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- Broward County, Fla., Court Judge Is Up for Seat on Federal Bench.
- By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 17--The White House plans to nominate Broward County Circuit Judge James Cohn for a newly created federal judgeship in Fort Pierce, sources said Sunday. Cohn, a highly regarded...
- Research articles 2003-03-17
- Judiciary in the United States: A search for fairness, independence, and competence, The
- INTRODUCTION Alexander Hamilton referred to the judiciary as "the least dangerous branch"1 because it could neither make nor enforce the law without help from the other two branches of government. In the years since then, however, courts and judges in the United States have assumed a much more prominent role...
- Research articles 2001-04-01
- Remarks to the Michigan State Bar Association in Detroit, Michigan
- September 21, 2000 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for that warm welcome. Thank you, President Butzbaugh, for that introduction, even though you almost took my speech off with you. [Laughter] And I also want to thank your incoming bar vice president, Reginald Turner,...
- Research articles 2000-09-25
- The political economy of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.
- The practical realities of political compromise which underlie the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 can inform the legislative process of the Act's amendment in a way in which normative analysis cannot. The legislative history evidences political compromises between interest groups including various administrative actors and different types of creditors and...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- Tributes. (includes 5 tributes in honor of Justice Thurgood Marshall)
- Thurgood Marshall, I thought, would always be there. My life has been rounded by his. I was born in 1954, scant months after his advocacy led to the stunning victory in Brown v. Board of Education,(1) and so I grew up in the world ...
- Research articles 1991-10-01
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- Battle Lines Drawn Over Clinton's Appointment of Black Judge to 4th Circuit Court of Appeals - Brief Article
- WASHINGTON President Clinton late last month appointed Virginia lawyer Roger Gregory to the all-White 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond. And it didn't take long for conservative members of the U.S. Senate to undertake the task of keeping the 4th Circuit record of Black exclusion intact....
- Research articles 2001-01-18
- OKC atty. Jerome Holmes appears before Senate committee
- Oklahoma City attorney Jerome Holmes appeared Thursday before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and said he could separate ideology from judicial philosophy and that his experience as a prosecutor and trial lawyer would be beneficial to him as a judge.
- Research articles 2006-06-16
- Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
- As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the "free culture" movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, as did Google CEO Eric Schmidt and even the Pirate Party.That was then. As president-elect, one of Obama's first tech-related...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Bush makes appeals court nomination
- President Bush has nominated a California state government lawyer to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Sandra Segal Ikuta would fill a judgeship vacant since September 2000 when Chief Judge Emeritus James Browning went to senior status. ...
- Research articles 2006-02-10
- Rulings from the rogue court: the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a reputation for flagrantly ignoring Supreme Court precedent while handing down decisions on various hot-button issues
- Laurence Tribe may be the most liberal lawyer in America. Yet, at a Senate committee hearing in December, he warned of the "international embarrassment" that could befall the country if "some rather liberal judge out in the 9th Circuit" were to involve that court in prosecuting terrorists. Tribe's comments...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- Bush courts evangelicals for nominee support
- BEFORE JOHN ROBERTS was approved by the U.S. Senate as chief justice, backers of the federal judge, an active Catholic, warned that the nominee should not be put to an unconstitutional "religious test" in evaluations of his suitability. But soon after President Bush on October 3 nominated Harriet Miers, a...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Lyttons claim on gaming disputed
- The U.S. Justice Department believes an East Bay Indian tribes legal argument against losing its gaming rights holds no water, according to a letter sent to Congress last week. But the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians lawyer said the government based its finding on outmoded facts, and...
- Research articles 2005-09-17
- Prominent nominee has bipartisan support
- WASHINGTON -- The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Utah lawyer Thomas Griffith to be a judge Thursday by a 14-4 vote, in a rare display of bipartisanship on a high-profile appeals court nominee. Griffith, a former Senate lawyer who is general counsel to Brigham Young University, has been nominated for...
- Research articles 2005-04-15
- Sam J. Ervin Jr
- Sam J. Ervin Jr. Lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator, Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (1896-1984) became a popular figure during one of the most trying times for the United States, when he chaired the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities—the Watergate Committee. Sam Ervin was born September 27, 1896, in...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Sam J. Ervin Jr
- Sam J. Ervin Jr. Lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator, Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (1896-1984) became a popular figure during one of the most trying times for the United States, when he chaired the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities—the Watergate Committee. Sam Ervin was born September 27, 1896, in...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Clinton Appoints First Black To 4th Circuit Appeals Court In South
- In a historic recess appointment, President Clinton recently named Richmond, VA, lawyer Roger Gregory as the first Black judge to sit on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate court serves several Southern states and covers more minorities than any other circuit. Clinton's nomination of Gregory had...
- Research articles 2001-01-15
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