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While judicial opinions are usually matter-of-fact, technical, and serious, judges occasionally incorporate poetry into their writing. The practice has been criticised as self-aggrandising and demeaning by some scholars, but judges who use verse in their opinions do so to communicate with particular audiences, signal the importance of a case, or to address the emotional components of a legal ...
The Civil Court of the City of New York is a civil court of the New York State Unified Court System in New York City that decides lawsuits involving claims for damages up to $25,000 and includes a small claims part (small claims court) for cases involving amounts up to $10,000 as well as a housing part (housing court) for landlord-tenant matters, and also handles other civil matters referred ...
A 4–3 majority amended Rule 5 of the court's regulations to enable the most senior judge on the majority side of every case to determine the member of the Court that would write the majority opinion, which is the practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Previously, the Chief Justice, even when on the minority side of a case ...
The federal judge threw out part of the lawsuit, but he did rule for Republicans on one point. Under the Dome: Judge rules against GOP effort to purge 225,000 from voter rolls Skip to main content
Senior Circuit Judge James Larry Edmondson: Jasper, GA: 1947 1986–2012 2002–2009 2012–present Reagan: 22 Senior Circuit Judge Joel Fredrick Dubina: Montgomery, AL: 1947 1990–2013 2009–2013 2013–present G.H.W. Bush: 23 Senior Circuit Judge Susan H. Black: Jacksonville, FL: 1943 1992–2011 — 2011–present G.H.W. Bush: 24 Senior ...
The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first. The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known ...
A U.S. judge on Friday denied Elon Musk's bid to move a Pennsylvania lawsuit over his $1 million voter prizes to federal court, moving the case back to state court. The decision was issued by U.S ...
Mono County was partitioned from Calaveras, Fresno, and Mariposa counties in 1861. [2] Aurora was named as the initial county seat. [2]In 1863, a detailed survey concluded that Aurora was in the Territory of Nevada instead and after it was named the seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, the county seat was moved to Bridgeport by election in 1864.