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The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
Kidd was born in 1983 in Birmingham, Alabama.He attended Emory University on a full-tuition scholarship, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, as well as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
Coleman, who was endorsed by the Republican Party, won his election to the Mississippi Supreme Court comfortably in 2012. [2] On November 3, 2020, voters elected him to a second term. In 2021, Coleman wrote the majority decision that struck down a voter-approved medical marijuana ballot initiative.
A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases from Mississippi, in 2023 ruled 2-1 in favor of the claim by the plaintiffs that the ban violates ...
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
Johnson said the Mississippi Constitution requires the election of circuit judges, who hear civil and felony cases. The new law requiring the appointment of judges “runs roughshod” over that ...
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi; In office 1996–2004: Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; In office 1993–1996: Personal details; Born: 1951 (age 73–74) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Education: William Carey College University of ...
In a ruling filed late Sunday, U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate dismissed requests to block the new court, which was created by the majority-white and Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature.