He is an indefatigable gadfly and an unusually successful litigant.
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Now he can add "potential litigant" to his résumé as well.
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Klayman is an active litigant who repeatedly brings meritless lawsuits against public officials.
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" He added, "She is not a litigant, and she is not a partisan.
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Disagreeing with a judicial decision is the right of every litigant, including the president.
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This is how another litigant named Shawn Gillam overdosed in the North Fraser Pretrial Centre.
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"Most troublingly, the Court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others," she added.
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After all, courts found he was the only litigant who'd ever paid anything for the stone.
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However, Shivers has been known to the state of California as a vexatious litigant since 2008.
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A litigant in the case told Reuters that the judge is expected to rule by Friday.
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R), the lead litigant in the case, also cheered the order.
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As Sotomayor writes, "the Court's recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others."
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A good judge must be an umpire, a neutral and impartial decider who favors no litigant or policy.
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It sounds like the litigant doesn't like the ruling, and may be trying to shop around for replacement judges.
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Curiel considered a last-ditch effort by a Florida litigant, Sherri Simpson, that could have derailed the settlement effort.
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" Targeting her conservative colleagues, she said "most troublingly, the Court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others.
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" Targeting her conservative colleagues, she said "most troublingly, the court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others.
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Of the rest, the most common complaint is personal bias against a litigant or attorney (320 complaints in 2016).
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"A good judge must be an umpire—a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy," he said.
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"If the district judge was considering and voting on Youchah's appointment while she was lead counsel in the case, you can see why a litigant might well question the district judge's impartiality when the litigant later discovers this connection," Keith Swisher, professor of legal ethics at the University of Arizona College of Law, told CNBC.
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VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community.
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Buchheit's law firm Cleary Gottlieb advised the prior administration of President Cristina Fernandez Kirchner in its standoff with litigant hedge funds.
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The judges issued a "writ of mandamus," a rare edict from a federal court that requires a litigant to take action.
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"The idea that the Fifth Circuit allowed an injunction to occur nationwide when Texas was the litigant is insane," said Rep.
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" Sekulow also stresses the courts should step in because the President is not an "ordinary litigant" and he deserves "special solicitude.
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For example, the court has upheld federal-question jurisdiction over a dispute over title to real property (a quintessential state-law cause of action) where one litigant claimed to have obtained the property from the IRS, while the other litigant argued that the IRS hadn't followed proper procedures in seizing the property, thus invalidating the first litigant's claim.
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And they will cherry-pick decisions in which he ruled against a sympathetic cause or litigant, as is sometimes a judge's duty.
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In the past, similar suits made by Shivers have been rejected by the court due to his standing as a vexatious litigant.
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The main Muslim litigant in the case, the Sunni Wakf Board, has declined to file a review, saying it respected the verdict.
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By law, justices are required to recuse themselves from cases in which a company whose shares they own is a named litigant.
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Though Donald Trump was a frequent litigant when he was in the private sector, he displayed no discernible views on the judiciary.
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Every litigant in the Supreme Court can be assured that I will listen to their arguments with respect and an open mind.
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Nevertheless, if the ordinary rules that apply to nearly every other litigant applied to Trump, this tweet would be a very big deal.
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Pruitt has been a frequent litigant against Obama administration climate rules, and both he and Trump have questioned the science of climate change.
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The documents Wyden and McCaskill cite came from ongoing litigation involving a whistleblower, and they did not disclose the litigant in the case.
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By the time I have to think about it again, our intrepid executive litigant might still be in prison for sinking an entire country.
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The agency's interpretation and retroactive application of its finding would have cost the litigant the seven years he had waited to achieve lawful residency.
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"Perhaps most troublingly, the court's recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others," Sotomayor wrote, without mentioning Trump by name.
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"Mr VanDyke would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community," the letter said.
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In this system, America is already the #1 litigant: the U.S. has initiated 111 of the cases and has been a defendant in 85033 cases.
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Since prior settlements are sealed, the new employer has no way of knowing that he or she is dealing with a serial sexual abuse litigant.
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" The Facebook VP responded by characterizing the information contained in the seized documents as "partial," on account of it being sourced via a "hostile litigant.
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"A good judge must be an umpire — a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy," Judge Kavanaugh said in his opening statement.
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Any time a litigant raises a Second Amendment claim, he or she is arguing that a particular government action, typically a gun regulation, is unconstitutional.
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You're not the first trans litigant to appear in front of the Supreme Court, but yours is the first case to deal with trans issues specifically.
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Recently elected President Mauricio Macri has taken a more conciliatory approach to the litigant funds, realizing the importance of regaining access to vital hard currency funding.
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No one could reasonably question a judge's impartiality just because a litigant has endorsed policies that would affect the country of origin of the judge's parents.
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Critics of Clinton have questioned that move, and the chief litigant in the open records lawsuits has said he hopes to obtain all the deleted messages.
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Frank and CCAF consider themselves to be a bulwark against collusion and self-dealing, the only litigant whose sole objective is to protect class members' interests.
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Nathan Landis, an investment manager at IMF Bentham, said the firm already had a prime litigant, a Sydney man who did not want to be identified.
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" She appeared to explicitly call out the conservative-leaning judges on the bench, writing that "the Court's recent behavior" has benefited "one litigant over all others.
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Now, under the Child Victims Act, one former litigant, Robert Holmes, is suing Riverside, seeking damages from the institution, not someone whose estate has been settled.
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Not so powerful after all As a zealous litigant during his business career, Trump was used to having lawyers ready to jump at his barked commands.
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Democrats say Pruitt is so conservative, and such a hostile litigant against the EPA during his time as Oklahoma's attorney general, that he threatens the agency's mission.
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A federal appeals court on Monday handed a victory to prolific patent litigant Uniloc USA Inc, saying a patent it accused Apple Inc of infringing was valid.
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Will we see a series of 5-4 rulings, right down widely-perceived ideological and perhaps political lines, in favor of "one litigant," as Sotomayor put it?
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Argentina is scheduled to make past due interest payments and has concluded agreements with its litigant creditors - all moves needed to clear its way to sell new debt.
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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which has been the main litigant against the pipeline, also promised litigation, though it had not filed any motions as of Thursday morning.
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"A good judge must be an umpire—a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy," Kavanaugh will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to CNN.
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It argued that SocGen's disclosure exercise had been running for 22 months, which was more than ample time for a litigant with SocGen's resources to complete standard disclosure.
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The requirement is absolute—no litigant can bring a case without showing he has suffered harm, as per Article III of the constitution—but it is notoriously indeterminate.
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The climate skeptic that headed President Trump's transition team called for slashing the EPA's workforce and budget, while a frequent litigant against the agency may soon lead it.
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Perhaps most striking was the many hours Roberts endured on the dais hearing piercing criticism of the President, who is becoming a regular litigant at the Supreme Court.
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But as an impassioned group of activists discovered in 1896, falling short sometimes does more than disappoint a losing litigant: it can cement a disastrous status quo for generations.
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The decision to delay the case and expand the panel was made by the court on its own and not in response to a request from any particulate litigant.
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"But on the question of whether to grant a stay pending appeal, the president is subject to the same legal standard as any other litigant that does not prevail."
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The country is looking to raise as much as US$15bn in new debt to pay litigant investors and bring a long-running battle in US courts to an end.
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Australia's fourth-largest bank by assets said it will also drop dishonour fees from pensioners' accounts and behave as a model litigant in cases involving small businesses, among other changes.
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A market pariah since a US$100bn default in 2001, Argentina has made peace with litigant investors under the administration of new President Mauricio Macri, who took office in December.
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Madigan is a Democrat and frequent litigant against Trump's policies, but the lawsuit was filed in part due to a referral by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, part of Gov.
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If it has not done so already, this hard truth will metastasize to the integrity of Posner's seat, leading every constitutionally-minded litigant to hesitate before submitting to his jurisdiction.
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In his 2000 memo, Mr. Moss dismissed this ruling, emphasizing that the burdens of being a criminal defendant were greater than the burdens of being sued by a private litigant.
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"What the Obama administration tried to do was egregious and unlawful," said Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia's Republican attorney general and the lead litigant who fought the Clean Power Plan in court.
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So, it&aposs a tough spot for a litigant to be in, but I&aposm not really critical of the fact they filed a motion because it&aposs now or never.
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The rail-thin 96-year-old, who can hardly hear and has many teeth missing, is the oldest litigant in a case seeking to preserve a Muslim claim on the land.
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The president, who is a named party in the Washington state case that temporarily blocked his immigration order, has a responsibility to comport himself in a manner expected of a litigant.
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The Trump administration announces a policy that is anathema to Democrats, a liberal litigant files a lawsuit, and a judge somewhere in the country issues a nationwide injunction blocking that policy.
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Anthony Oliver -- who claims the "Melrose Place" star drugged and raped him in 1998 when he was 16 years old -- is considered a vexatious litigant in the state ... according to court records.
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Pruitt has been a litigant against the Obama administration on nearly every major regulation and executive action, not only on environmental issues but also ObamaCare, immigration and bathroom use by transgender people.
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He took aim at what he calls "offended-observer standing," whereby a litigant can sue on Establishment Clause grounds when they witness a government display of religion that might violate the Constitution.
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At EPA he sought and received waivers to work on rules he had challenged as a litigant and made decisions that benefitted companies which have contributed money to further his political career.
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The country has made good progress this month in its fight with litigant investors after the government offered US$6.5bn to creditors suing for about US$9bn in claims in US courts.
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A judge had allowed his sexual assault case to go forward, and he was proving himself to be a tenacious litigant, rallying others to the cause and even doing his own investigative work.
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Those sources claimed that Pruitt, who as attorney general of Oklahoma was a frequent litigant against the Obama administration, was concerned about his political future and didn't want to be labeled anti-science.
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In his tiny living room, Iqbal Ansari, a Muslim litigant whose family has publicly supported the mosque for decades, offered none of the cheery enthusiasm or grand predictions expressed by the temple's supporters.
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"Case in and case out, the category of litigant who is not getting great representation at the Supreme Court are criminal defendants," Justice Elena Kagan said at a Justice Department event in 2014.
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"No litigant with a civil rights claim before Mr. Oldham could trust he would fairly and impartially provide equal justice under the law," Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF's president and director counsel, said in the letter.
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Yet while investors cheered progress on last week's arduous negotiations in New York between government officials and litigant investors, the country still faces an uphill battle as it works to bring other holdouts on board.
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Restructured bonds were trading essentially flat after a court-appointed mediator announced an agreement in principle between Argentina and a group of its most litigant bondholders to settle a long-running dispute over defaulted bonds.
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Murray Energy is headed by Bob Murray, an outspoken coal mogul and frequent litigant against the Obama EPA and others he has perceived as anti-coal, as well as a strong supporter of President Trump.
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Murray Energy is headed by Bob Murray, an outspoken coal mogul and frequent litigant against the Obama EPA and others he has perceived as anti-coal, as well as a strong supporter of President Trump.
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"It is well-settled that 'a litigant must be a member of the class which he or she seeks to represent at the time the class action is certified by the district court,'" they wrote.
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When nominees filibuster me and disrespect the United States Senate and the Judiciary, that causes me to wonder if they will do that to a US senator, how they are going to treat a litigant?
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Iqbal Ansari, a resident of Ayodhya whose father was a litigant in the case and had demanded the Babri Mosque be restored, said he welcomed the decision and hoped it would end years of sectarian strife.
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Yes, there will be a reckoning for the unsuccessful litigant here, although the Democrats have been brilliant in elevating this matter, bringing together their caucus, dominating the news media and engineering parliamentary maneuvers to their advantage.
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Security experts say that while Trump's comments were clearly not meant to put the judges' safety at risk, in general, public officials should avoid comments against a specific judge so as not to spur an unhappy litigant.
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Berman said the government agency "has investigatory powers that a private litigant does not to sort of pull the curtain back and get a look" at how the platform works and what options are provided to advertisers.
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"The main overall thing is that we do not want to draw attention to a particular case or a particular litigant in the case, so that the court is not influenced by that," the official told Goudy.
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But Monday's brief signaled that the Justice Department would not be seeking to participate as an active litigant in the litigation before Polster, who is overseeing at least 433 opioid-related lawsuits brought primarily by cities and counties.
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"The Attorney General, unlike a private litigant … is required only to prove that unfair or deceptive acts or practices took place in trade or commerce; she is not required to prove or quantify resulting economic injury," the judge wrote.
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"Perhaps most troublingly, the Court's recent behavior on stay applications has benefited one litigant over all others," Sotomayor wrote in a sharp opinion dissenting from the court's decision to lift an injunction on the administration's immigrant "public charge" rule.
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You could say that when it comes to administrative-law jurisprudence, lady justice is not blind; her blindfold is off and she's winking at the lawyers, who work for the most powerful litigant in the country — the federal government.
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The next day Pruitt was a participant in an ALEC panel, "Embracing American Energy Opportunities: From Wellheads to Pipelines," along with Jack Stark, president and COO of Continental Resources, an oil company and co-litigant in one of Pruitt's EPA lawsuits.
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" Mr. Fisher responded that "there's a difference between a bias, harmful though it may be, that affects only a private litigant, compared to racial bias which is a stain on the entire judicial system and the integrity that it's built upon.
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But Mr. Trump is not any litigant; he is running to be president of the United States — a job that requires at least a glancing understanding of the American system of government, in particular a respect for the separation of powers.
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"Given the unique role that embassies play in facilitating communications between states," he wrote, "a foreign state's embassy in Washington, D.C., is, absent an indication to the contrary, a place where a U.S. litigant can serve the state's foreign minister."
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He may have the honor of being known as the "leader of the free world," but is he immune to being treated as a litigant while occupying the White House, even when his name is on the style of the case?
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A CNN special report in January, examining about 5,000 judicial orders arising from misconduct complaints over the past decade, found that rarely do the judges overseeing the complaint system find that a claim -- by a lawyer, litigant or employee -- warrants an investigation.
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When the courts consider the arguments in the Trump lawyer letter, they will likely end up where they belong -- in the dust bin, requiring him to appear and contest the applicability of the privilege to particular questions just like any other litigant.
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I couldn't recall reading a previous opinion that used plural pronouns to refer to a non-gender-conforming litigant so I reached out to Joshua Block, a transgender rights lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, to talk about Judge Oetken's Doe decision.
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A federal court requires proof only by a preponderance of the evidence, making it even less likely that the administrative process will be used in a contested matter: No litigant wants a more difficult burden of proof when a lighter one is available.
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In 2004, for instance, he went on a duck-hunting trip with Dick Cheney, who was then vice president and a litigant in a case before the court over whether Mr. Cheney would have to reveal who had appeared before his energy task force.
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A close examination shows that the records are a combination of documents that prosecutors already had, handwritten notes about a taxi business, insurance papers, and correspondence from a woman described in court filings as a "vexatious litigant" who claims she is under government surveillance.
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Mr. Hooker's personal right-to-die campaign capped a flamboyant career as a perennial litigant and political candidate who figured in the Supreme Court's pivotal "one person one vote" ruling and helped persuade H. Ross Perot to mount an independent run for president in 22008.
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If a litigant were to go to the press and say "the judge is an idiot," would anyone believe that the judge, however unanimated he might appear the next time the case is before him, wouldn't be at least somewhat affected by the attack?
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The Democrats' approach also appears to be in keeping with the preference of some lawmakers to make the nomination as much a referendum on Mr. Trump as Judge Gorsuch, with ready parallels to the president's history as a profit-seeking boss and serial litigant.
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On the other hand, once admitted, members benefit from a secretive disciplinary process that almost never results in penalties or expulsion, combined with aggressive policing of the "unauthorized practice of law" should any nonlawyer try to assist a litigant unable to afford the real deal.
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" Asked about Trump's criticism of judges, Kozinski said that attacks on the judiciary "have been a staple of American politics since the birth of the republic," but he added: "I don't think it's a good idea for any litigant to be talking badly about a judge.
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Last June, for instance, I wrote about a Fitbit lawyer's all-too-candid admission that no rational litigant would pay a $750 filing fee to arbitrate a claim over a product that costs $162 – a concession that plaintiffs' lawyers called the "ugly truth" about mandatory arbitration clauses.
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While Stephens is not the first openly trans litigant to appear in front of the Supreme Court (Dee Farmer, a trans woman inmate from Wisconsin holds that distinction), her case will be the first to deal directly with the rights of transgender people in the US under the law.
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As Powell read the clerk's memo briefing the justices on the case, he saw the clerk had characterized all information received by a litigant in discovery as "protected in some way" under the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech and thus more difficult to shield from the public.
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RELATED: Federal judiciary may create informal harassment complaint system A CNN special report in January, examining about 5,000 judicial orders arising from misconduct complaints over the past decade, found that rarely do the judges overseeing the system find that a claim -- by a lawyer, litigant or employee -- warrants an investigation.
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If that were cause for recusal, we would have to double or triple the sizes of the federal and state judiciaries because judges would constantly have to recuse themselves in response to litigant claims of bias based on the judge's race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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Rather than calling it an all-out hoax, Mashable points out that Trump's picks—EPA litigant Scott Pruitt to oversee the EPA, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, and Department of Energy-skeptic Rick Perry for the DOE—all took evasive stances during their confirmation hearings when asked about climate change.
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But Boeing is a particularly active litigant, not only against Bombardier but against Airbus, which it says got billions of dollars of cheap loans from the EU. Naturally, Boeing itself got billions of dollars of help (in the form of military contracts) to get off the ground back in the 1950s and 1960s.
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And CNN has said that its reporters twice witnessed a team of lawyers working for Mr. Mueller, including Michael Dreeben, an appellate specialist, going into a sealed courtroom to argue before Judge Howell against an unknown litigant, including on a day when she later handed down a ruling in the sealed case.
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And CNN has said that its reporters twice saw a team of lawyers working for Mr. Mueller, including Michael Dreeben, an appellate specialist, going into a sealed courtroom to argue before Judge Howell against an unknown litigant, including on a day when she later handed down a ruling in the sealed case.
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"It seems to me that even though we cannot prove a cause and effect relationship between rhetorical attacks on judges and violent acts of vengeance by a particular litigant, fostering disrespect for judges can only encourage those that are on the edge, or the fringe, to exact revenge on a judge who ruled against them," she said.
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In fact, the federal judiciary, as it is currently structured, is uniquely immune to the adverse effects of Supreme Court ties, as when they occur they almost always leave undisturbed a state supreme court or federal appellate court ruling that reflects the most process and consideration any litigant can demand or has any legitimate reason to expect.
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In choosing a case that would advance a desperately needed argument about reproductive autonomy, Ginsburg had cleverly selected one in which the litigant had chosen to have a baby, rather than to end a pregnancy, so that the Court's attention would be focussed on the equality claims of women (and not on the politics of abortion).
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A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a federal judge in Los Angeles incorrectly applied the U.S. Supreme Court's three-part test for stopping a litigant from taking positions contrary to what they took in earlier proceedings when he tossed Sophia Sadlowski's lawsuit accusing the Texas-based arts-and-crafts chain of not paying store managers the overtime they were owed.
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Zimmerman said that if the ALJ removal issue does come to the Supreme Court – via a constitutional challenge from a litigant protesting an adverse ruling or a future suit by an ALJ alleging improper dismissal – the Trump administration is likely to find an ally in Brett Kavanaugh, the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court judge who has been nominated to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE (D), a frequent litigant against Trump, announced a lawsuit Wednesday, saying Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law when it repealed the rule last month.
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Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE (D), a frequent litigant against Trump, announced a lawsuit Wednesday, saying the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law when it repealed the rule last month.
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Murray Energy is headed by Bob Murray, an outspoken coal mogul and frequent litigant against the Obama EPA and others he has perceived as anti-coal, as well as a strong supporter of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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Xavier BecerraXavier BecerraCalifornia leads states in lawsuit over Trump public charge rule Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs California counties file first lawsuit over Trump 'public charge' rule MORE (D), a frequent litigant against Trump, announced a lawsuit Wednesday, saying the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law when it repealed the rule last month.
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