query: who is the youngest sitting judge on the us supreme court

pos: Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States identified himself as an agnostic, though he remained proud of his Jewish heritage. Unlike the offices of President, U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, there is no minimum age for Supreme Court justices set forth in the United States Constitution. However, justices tend to be appointed after having made significant achievements in law or politics, which excludes many young potential candidates from consideration. At the same time, justices appointed at too advanced an age will likely have short tenures on the Court. The youngest justice ever appointed was Joseph Story, 32 at the time of his appointment in 1812; the oldest

neg: Fazal Ali Kashmir High Court. In 1966, he became the Chief Justice of the same court, thereby becoming one of the youngest holders of that high office; he was only 43. In 1975, he was made a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, thus making for a very rare instance of father and son both being supreme court judges in India. He died in 1985 while yet a sitting judge of the supreme court. Fazal Ali Khan Bahadur Sayyid Sir Fazl Ali, also known as Fazal Ali OBE (19 September 1886 – 22 August 1959) was an Indian judge, the governor

neg: Charles Robert Sherman Ohio Supreme Court, where he continued to serve until his sudden death in 1829. The Supreme Court rode a circuit in those days, and Sherman died while holding court in Lebanon, Ohio, where he was buried. He was later re-interred in Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio. Judge Sherman left his widow with no means of support and eleven children, the oldest eighteen years of age, the youngest an infant. Among them were US Judge Charles Taylor Sherman and William Tecumseh Sherman, who was sent to live with Judge Sherman's friend Thomas Ewing and his wife Maria, and who would famously serve

neg: Second Amendment Foundation prohibited from exercising their right to bear arms. Alan Gura, who successfully argued "Heller" and "McDonald" before the Supreme Court, is lead counsel in this case. In 2018, the Foundation joined in a lawsuit against Alameda County, which had passed an ordinance that prohibits gun stores from being located within 500 feet of a residential zone. The Plaintiffs won before a 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court, but the decision was reversed by the full appeals court sitting "en banc". The plaintiffs filed for a Writ of Certiorari seeking a hearing before the US Supreme Court. The Court rejected

neg: Charles Blackie He oversaw the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004, which was widely covered by foreign media. Blackie was also appointed to the District Courts of New Zealand on 18 December 1998, and is a Senior District Court Judge sitting in the Manukau District Court, Auckland. In his capacity as Chief Justice of the Pitcairn Supreme Court, Blackie attended the opening of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 16 October 2009. In the 2017 New Year Honours List, Judge Blackie was awarded the Queen's Service Order. Charles Blackie Charles Stuart Blackie is a New Zealand judge who is currently

neg: Supreme Court of Sri Lanka as authorized by the Constitution or by written law or with the written consent of the President. A judge of the Supreme Court can only be removed by Parliament, however if convicted of a criminal offense the judge may face a jail sentence. The 2015 indictment of Justice Sarath De Abrew is the first time that a sitting Supreme Court judge has been indicted on a criminal offense. The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka is housed in the Hulftsdorp court complex. Article 118 of the Constitution - the Supreme Court is the highest and final superior court of record and

neg: John Stegner among four finalists named by the Idaho Judicial Council after public interviews with 14 applicants, including six sitting judges. Stegner is the only justice on the state's highest court from northern Idaho, and will be up for election in May 2020. John Stegner John R. Stegner (born November 8, 1953) is an Associate Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court and former state district court judge. Born and raised in Grangeville, Idaho, Stegner is the youngest of four sons of Charles and He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1977 from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and his Juris Doctor

neg: Judiciary of the British Virgin Islands Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands has one sitting judge of the High Court, and at present that judge is Vicki Ann Ellis (since 2012). In the addition, the Commercial division of the Supreme Court also sits in the British Virgin Islands. It was established in May 2009 and is known universally (if slightly inaccurately) as the Commercial Court. The present sitting judge is Barry Leon (since 2015). Although the Commercial Court may hear cases from any of the nine member jurisdictions of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, in practice for a number of different reasons the Commercial division's work

neg: Richard Goldstone 1980 he was selected by the government to serve as a judge on the Transvaal Supreme Court. At the time of his appointment he was the youngest Supreme Court judge in South Africa. His elevation came despite his known opposition to apartheid. South Africa's National Party government occasionally promoted "opposition" barristers to the Supreme Court Bench to demonstrate its claimed commitment to an independent judiciary and to confer legitimacy on the system through the presence of judges who enjoyed a reputation for independence and integrity. This raised obvious moral issues for Goldstone – as a judge, he would be expected

neg: Jaime Rios York Post" to call Rios the "Love Judge." Memblatt has gone on to become a blogger highly critical of the New York state judiciary as a whole. In October 2006, Judge Matthew D'Emic denied Johnson's motion to overturn the conviction, finding no misconduct on Rios' part. Jaime Rios Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County. Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court. Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New

neg: Supreme Court of El Salvador El Salvador, the legislature also designates one judge as the President of the Supreme Court. This person is also then the head of the judicial branch and the Constitutional Court. Article 176 of the Constitution establishes the criteria for a Supreme Court judgeship: The Supreme Court is organized into four courts: In 2009, the Legislative Assembly elected Supreme Court judges for the period from July 16, 2009 through July 15, 2018. However, judges sitting on the Constitutional bench will serve for the period from July 16, 2012 through July 15, 2021, with the exception of Judge Bonilla Flores whose term

neg: Vikramajit Sen 2012, he was elevated and appointed as a judge at the Supreme Court of India. He is also the chairman of the three-member panel to investigate sexual harassment charges against S K Gangele, a sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. Vikramajit Sen Justice Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. A former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. Sen is graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in History. On 7 July 1999, Sen was appointed as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and on 30 October 2000, he

neg: Supreme Court of Pakistan the qualification summary before the nomination sent to executive. There has been "Ad hoc" appointment in the supreme court made when the quorum of Judges is not possible to complete the sitting number of justices in the court, or if it is necessary to increase the number of justices in the Supreme Court. The nomination comes directly from the Judicial Commission chiared by the Chief Justice who prepares the nomination summary as President confirms their appointments. As of current, there are two justices are on the "ad-hoc" appointment that are from the Federal Sharia Court. A judge of the Supreme

neg: Sathya Hettige was enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Fiji on 19 March 1993. He is related to the Rajapaksa family. Sathya Hettige Sathya Hettige PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and is also a non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Prior to his appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka he was serving as president of Court of appeal. Hettige secured his LLB Degree from the University of Colombo. He qualified as an Attorney-at-Law

neg: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination Court pick was critical of the president's escalating attacks on the federal judiciary in private meetings with legislators. President Trump announced the nomination of Gorsuch on January 31, 2017. The nomination was formally transmitted to the Senate on February 1, 2017. His nomination was pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. At age 49, Gorsuch would become the youngest sitting Supreme Court justice since Clarence Thomas. Having clerked for Anthony Kennedy, Gorsuch would also become the first Supreme Court Justice to have previously clerked for a Justice still sitting on the court. In July 2006, Gorsuch's nomination to the United States

neg: Jaime Rios Jaime Rios Jaime Rios is a judge on the New York Supreme Court for Queens County. Prior to sitting on the Supreme Court, Judge Rios served on the New York City Civil Court and the Housing Court. Judge Rios holds a B.S. degree from City College of New York, a M.A. degree from New York University, and a law degree from Fordham University School of Law. Following law school, Judge Rios was a prosecutor in Kings County and later an attorney for the New York City Police Department. He also teaches landlord/tenant law at Fordham as an adjunct professor. He

neg: Judge state is called the Supreme Court of New York, and its judges are called "justices". The next highest appellate court is the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, whose judges are also called "justices". However, the highest court in New York is called the New York Court of Appeals, whose members are called "judges". Judges in certain jurisdictions, such as New York and New Jersey, who deal with guardianships, trusts and estates are known as "surrogates." A "senior judge," in US practice, is a retired judge who handles selected cases for a governmental entity while in retirement, on a part-time basis. Subordinate

neg: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination After his nomination on January 31, 2017, Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2017. Gorsuch, age 49 at confirmation, is the youngest sitting Supreme Court justice since Clarence Thomas. In February 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died, leaving a vacancy on the highest federal court in the United States. Article II of the U.S. Constitution requires the president to nominate justices to the Supreme Court, subject to the "advice and consent" of the United States Senate. President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy.

neg: Indian High Courts Act 1861 if he is appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court or is transferred to some other High Court. A judge of a High Court may also be removed like a judge of the Supreme Court. A judge of High Court may be removed by the President if the Parliament passes a motion against him by an absolute majority and 2/3rd majority of the members present and voting, both the Houses sitting separately. Salary: The pay of the Chief Justice of a High Court is rupees 90,000/- per month and that of the other judges is rupees 85,000/- per month.

neg: K. T. Chitrasiri concurrently serve as Commissioner-General of Inland Revenue in 2009. On 19 November 2015 Chitrasiri was recommended to the Constitutional Council by President Maithripala Sirisena to be appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. On 3 December 2015 Chitrasiri was sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court, at the President’s Office in the Parliament Complex. K. T. Chitrasiri Justice Kankanithanthri T. Chitrasiri is a sitting Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka who was appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena in 2016 to replace Justice Rohini Marasinghe. He was Justice of the Court of

neg: Rohini Marasinghe Rohini Marasinghe Rohini Perera Marasinghe is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. She was a sitting judge on the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Prior to her appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, in April 2013, she served as a judge of the Court of Appeal and was promoted to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice S. I. Imam. Rohini Marasinghe, graduating in law in 1976, joined the Attorney-General's Department as a State Counsel in 1980. Becoming a Magistrate in 1983, Marasinghe served as a District judge in almost all parts of

neg: Buwaneka Aluwihare In 2015 he was also appointed to the Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Buwaneka Aluwihare Buwaneka Aluwihare PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He is a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Prior to his appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, he served as a Deputy Solicitor General of the Attorney General’s Department. He was sworn in by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees. He has also served as a prosecutor for the UN’s Serious

neg: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination Coalition for America, Freedom from Religion Foundation and Union for Reform Judaism all voiced concerns with Gorsuch's nomination. The Judicial Crisis Network enthusiastically rallied behind Gorsuch after running a campaign against Merrick Garland, spending a total of $17 million to these ends. Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination After his nomination on January 31, 2017, Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2017. Gorsuch, age 49 at confirmation, is the youngest sitting Supreme Court justice since Clarence Thomas. In February 2016, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died, leaving a vacancy on the highest federal court in

neg: Oregon Supreme Court door when a conference is interrupted. When a state court judge retires, resigns, or dies before completing a term, the Governor may appoint another qualified person to the position. To retain that position, the appointed person must run for election for a full six-year term at the next general election. On occasion, a judge will leave office at the end of a term, in which case a general election determines their replacement. If the Supreme Court needs an additional judge on a temporary basis due to illness, an unfilled position, or a justice is disqualified from sitting on a case

neg: Diane Hathaway 1990. According to her Supreme Court biography, she has taught Continuing Education and Real Estate Law classes for other licensees. In November 1992, Hathaway was elected judge of the Wayne County Circuit Court, 3rd Judicial Circuit, and served from 1993 until 2009, when she was elevated to Michigan Supreme Court Justice. In 2006, Hathaway mounted an unsuccessful campaign for a seat on the state Court of Appeals. She finished third behind two sitting judges. Hathaway is currently married to trial attorney Michael J. Kingsley, who has been practicing law in Michigan since 1970. Hathaway's annual compensation for her work on

neg: William J. Sullivan active as a Judge Trial Referee, sitting regularly with the Connecticut Appellate Court. William J. Sullivan William J. Sullivan (born March 12, 1939) is a Judge Trial Referee of the Connecticut Superior Court. He has served as Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Connecticut Appellate Court by Gov. John G. Rowland in 1997 and remained there until his elevation to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1999. Justice Sullivan was nominated to be Chief Justice by Gov. Rowland in 2000 and was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court in 2001. Justice Sullivan took senior status

neg: Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud Swapnil Tripathi v. Supreme Court of India, the judgment which allowed live streaming of Indian court cases. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is currently a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India, He is the former Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court and a former judge of the Bombay High Court. Chandrachud was born on 11 November 1959. His father Y. V. Chandrachud was the longest serving Chief Justice of India. His mother Prabha was a classical musician. After attending Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai and St. Columba's School, Delhi, Chandrachud graduated

neg: Rohini Marasinghe seeks to mop up misconduct in the judiciary. Marasinghe has participated in and presented legal papers at numerous conferences and seminars all over the world, including at the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Conference and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Conference. Rohini Marasinghe Rohini Perera Marasinghe is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. She was a sitting judge on the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Prior to her appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, in April 2013, she served as a judge of the Court of Appeal and was promoted to fill the vacancy

neg: Brian Sully civil case at the hearing, of which it is also customary for Counsel to robe. The second set on display is the customary court dress of a Justice of the Supreme Court when is sitting in a criminal case, or at the hearing of either an application or an appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeal. The third set is the ceremonial dress of a Judge of the Supreme Court and is only worn on very formal occasions, such as the swearing in of a new Judge. The display also includes day-dress wigs, ‘full-bottomed’ wigs, Barrister’s wigs and wig-tins, a

neg: Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi Principal Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights. He was Incharge, Access to Justice Programme of the Government of Pakistan and ex officio Member of Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan from 18 June 2003 to 14 June 2004. Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi retired from Supreme Court of Pakistan on 7 June 2007 on reaching retirement age of 65 Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi retired from Supreme Court of Pakistan. He was then appointed as Chief Judge of Supreme Appellate Court of Gilgit Baltistan. Mr Abbasi as a sitting judge of Lahore High Court took oath in 1999. On 3 November 2007,

neg: Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas area of land titles, marital property, and homestead exemptions. The original four district court judges elected by Congress were Shelby Corzine, Benjamin Cromwell Franklin, Robert McAlpin Williamson, and James W. Robinson. Due to delays in the Supreme Court sitting in session, these four judges (along with the first two chief justices) never sat with the Supreme Court. No session was held in 1837, probably because a majority of the judges were not present. Two weeks after the Court was supposed to have met, Congress passed a statute which would impose a $1,000 fine on a judge who did not appear

neg: Court of Disputed Returns District Court judge may be appointed. The Supreme Court of Victoria is the Court of Disputed Returns under the Electoral Act 2002 (Vic). For state elections Section 157 of the Electoral Act (WA) provides that the validity of any election or return may be disputed by petition addressed to the Court of Disputed Returns. The court is constituted by a judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia sitting in open Court. For local government elections, the Magistrates Court is the Court of Disputed Returns under the Local Government Act 1995 (WA). The High Court of Fiji is the Court

neg: Louis B. Butler to the Municipal Court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as a municipal judge until 2002, when he was elected to Branch 9 of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Butler also served as an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School. Butler campaigned for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2000, but lost his election bid to incumbent Diane Sykes by a wide margin. After being appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2004, he was defeated by the Judge Michael Gableman in the April 1, 2008 elections. Butler was the first sitting Wisconsin Supreme Court justice to be

neg: John Muria John Muria Sir John Baptist Muria is a Solomon Islands judge and was the first indigenous Solomon Islander to be Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands. Muria was Chief Justice of the Solomon islands from 1992 to 2003. He then sat as a judge on the courts of Sierra Leone from 2003 to 2006, sitting on each of the High Court of Sierra Leone, the Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone, and the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone. In 2007, the Commonwealth Secretariat facilitated Muria becoming a justice of the Supreme Court of Belize, where he remained until 2010. Muria

neg: Jack Pope Jack Pope Andrew Jackson Pope, Jr., known as Jack Pope (April 18, 1913 – February 25, 2017), was an American judge, attorney, author and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Pope holds the record of the longest sitting justice in Texas Supreme Court history, having served for 38 years. At the time of his 100th birthday, he was the oldest living former Chief Justice of any supreme court in the United States, as well as the longest living chief justice of any supreme court of any state in United States history. Pope was

neg: Cecilia Altonaga $450,000 penalty against the City of Miami’s budget director for deceiving municipal bond investors, instead fining Michael Boudreaux $15,000. In July 2005, following the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge Altonaga's name was raised as a potential George W. Bush Supreme Court candidate, a position for which she was promoted by Florida's Hispanic community. However, it would be a very rare occurrence for a sitting District Court judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court. At 43, Altonaga was younger than most other Hispanics or women who were being mentioned as possible nominees, which might have made her a

neg: Alisa Kelli Wise Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. She and her husband, retired District Judge Arthur Ray, have one daughter. Alisa Kelli Wise Alisa Kelli Wise (born 1962) is an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who was first elected as a Republican in 2010, and re-elected in 2016. She previously served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, to which she was first elected in 2000. Upon taking office in 2001, she became the youngest woman to ever serve on an Alabama appellate court. Re-elected in 2006, she resigned from the appellate court upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court.

neg: Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission positions on the state judiciary. The commission follows a set of guidelines in the state constitution to determine eligibility for the positions, and to ensure that they only nominate the best qualified candidates that are available. The Governor then chooses a candidate from the list to fill the vacant position. The commission has the authority to choose who, among the sitting supreme court associate justices, will serve as Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, and, whenever a lower state court has requested that a senior judge be appointed to it, to certify to the Supreme Court whether a person

neg: Livingston County Courthouse (Geneseo, New York) the time he was the longest sitting judge in New York State, as well as the longest sitting judge in the history of Livingston County. In 2002 the Livingston County District Attorney was Thomas Moran. Thomas VanStrydonck served as a State Supreme Court Justice and gave decisions at the courthouse in 2006. In 2009 Diane C. Murphy was the Chief Clerk of the court. Livingston County Courthouse (Geneseo, New York) Livingston County Courthouse in Livingston County, New York is a building in Geneseo, New York, USA, located on 2 Court Street. The court house was designed in 1898 by the

neg: Sathya Hettige Sathya Hettige Sathya Hettige PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and is also a non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Prior to his appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka he was serving as president of Court of appeal. Hettige secured his LLB Degree from the University of Colombo. He qualified as an Attorney-at-Law in 1976 joining the Attorney General's department in 1978. Hettige served as Principal Law Officer in the Director of Public Prosecutions, Fiji Islands and

neg: Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law professors, including two Fulbright scholars. The present faculty-student ratio is 1:10, one of the lowest among Indian law schools. The school has an impressive list of visiting faculty which includes many eminent personalities in the law and technology field, viz. Justice Umesh Chandra Banerjee (former Judge, Supreme Court of India), Justice Anandamoy Bhattacharjee (former Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court and the Bombay High Court), Justice A.K Ganguly (Sitting Judge, Hon'ble Supreme Court of India), Justice Pratap Ray ( Judge of the Calcutta High Court), Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee (Former Chief Justice, Bombay and Calcutta High Courts), Prof. Mahendra Pal

neg: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination Constitution of the United States and the American rule of law." Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on July 9, 2018, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. When nominated, Kavanaugh was a sitting judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate Judiciary Committee began Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing on September 4. At the end of the confirmation process, Kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford thirty-six years prior,

neg: Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination President Donald Trump nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on July 9, 2018, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Anthony Kennedy. When nominated, Kavanaugh was a sitting judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate Judiciary Committee began Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing on September 4. At the end of the confirmation process, Kavanaugh was accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford thirty-six years prior, while they were both in high school in 1982. The Senate

neg: Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali February 1975. He was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India on April 2, 1975. He died on August 20th 1985 while a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and lies buried near Dargah Shah-i-Mardan in the Jorbagh Karbala complex, Delhi. Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali (20 December 1920 - 20 August 1985) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of India and Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He was born in an aristocratic Shia Muslim family to Khan Bahadur Sayyid Sir Fazal Ali, the Governor of Assam and Odisha. He

neg: Buwaneka Aluwihare Buwaneka Aluwihare Buwaneka Aluwihare PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He is a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Prior to his appointment as Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, he served as a Deputy Solicitor General of the Attorney General’s Department. He was sworn in by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees. He has also served as a prosecutor for the UN’s Serious Crimes Investigation Unit. Aluwihare worked as a prosecutor for the United Nations East Timor war crimes tribunal.

neg: West Virginia Circuit Courts the practice of law for at least five years. When a vacancy occurs, the governor of West Virginia appoints a judge, who must run in the next election to retain his or her seat. Because of the nature of the state's judicial retirement system, resignations near the end of a judge's term are common if the judge is a member of the same political party as the sitting governor. The circuit courts have original jurisdiction over: The circuit courts have original appellate jurisdiction involving: Appeals from the decisions of circuit courts go the state supreme court, the Supreme Court of

neg: Press Council of India which acts as a watchdog of the press. It adjudicates the complaints against and by the press for violation of ethics and for violation of the freedom of the press respectively. The Press Council is headed by a Chairman: usually, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India (except for the first chairman, Justice J. R. Mudholkar, who was a sitting judge of Supreme Court of India in 1968).It consists of a Chairman and 28 other members. Of the 28 members, 13 represent the working journalists. Of whom 6 are to be editors of newspapers and remaining 7(2members missing)

neg: Catherine Davani Guinean representative on the court. She was married to John Davani, and they had four children. She died from cancer in November 2016 in a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, with the funeral and a ceremonial Supreme Court sitting being held in Port Moresby on 14 November. Catherine Davani Catherine Anne Davani (3 June 1960 - 4 November 2016) was a Papua New Guinean judge. She was a judge of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea from 2001 until her death. She was the first female judge in Papua New Guinea. Davani was born in Wau in Morobe Province, but

neg: Fali Sam Nariman is a sitting Judge of the Supreme Court of India, who earlier held the post of the Solicitor General of India from 2011 to 2013. The Vis Moot East's "Fali Nariman Award" for 'Best Respondent's Memorandum' is named after Nariman. Nariman's autobiography is called "Before Memory Fades". Fali Sam Nariman Fali Sam Nariman (born 10 January 1929) is an Indian jurist. He was the senior advocate to the Supreme Court of India since 1971 and has remained the President of the Bar Association of India since 1991. Nariman is an internationally recognised jurist on international arbitration.He has been honored with

neg: Mary Finlay Geoghegan John Blayney was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland. She married Hugh Geoghegan, a judge of the High Court and the Supreme Court, who was himself the son of a Supreme Court judge James Geoghegan. Mary Finlay Geoghegan Mary Anne Geoghegan (née Finlay; born 11 July 1951) is an Irish judge who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since December 2017. She previously served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal from 2014 to 2017 and a Judge of the High Court from 2002 to 2014. On 7 November 2017, the Irish

neg: Sayed Zahid Hussain Lahore High Court on retirement of Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, who retired on 31 December 2007. Justice Zahid was the 37th chief justice of LHC since its inception in 1866. He was elevated to Supreme Court of Pakistan on 12 April 2009 and took oath on 13 April 2009 Justice Syed Zahid Hussain took oath on Provisional Constitutional Order 1999 as a sitting judge of Lahore High Court. On 3 November 2007 Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan declared emergency and issued a Provisional Constitutional Order. A seven-member panel of Supreme Court of Pakistan, headed by Chief Justice Chief Justice

neg: David F. Bauman in February 2016. The nomination is controversial, re-igniting an ongoing debate about the political composition of the Supreme Court, which began when Christie chose not to re-nominate sitting Supreme Court Justice John E. Wallace, Jr. for life tenure. Christie said there would be "ramifications" but did not specify what they were. In April 2016, Christie nominated Walter F. Timpone. David F. Bauman David F. Bauman is a New Jersey Superior Court judge for Vicinage 9 Criminal Court sitting in Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Bauman is of Japanese American descent. He attended Columbia University

neg: Yves Rüedi Yves Rüedi Yves Rüedi (; born 30 September 1976) is a Judge of the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. Rüedi earned a Master of Laws in 2002 and a Juris Doctor in 2009 from the University of St. Gallen. From 2002 until 2012, Rüedi worked in private legal practice with Pestalozzi Attorneys at Law in Zurich. In 2006 he was elected President of the High Court of the Canton of Glarus by the Landsgemeinde. In 2013 the Federal Assembly (Switzerland) appointed him as a judge to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. Rüedi is the youngest judge elected to the

neg: Russell Brown (judge) as "objectionable", described human rights commissions as "puritanical functionaries", and described himself as a "conservative libertarian". On February 8, 2013, he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta. He was then appointed to the Court of Appeal of Alberta on March 8, 2014. As a Court of Appeal judge sitting in Edmonton, Justice Brown also served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories and a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Nunavut. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on August 31, 2015. He has been married since 1994

neg: Sisira de Abrew was promoted as senior state counsel in 1996. In 1998 he was appointed a High Court Judge, where he served in Ampara, Kandy, Anuradhapura and Colombo. In 2005 he was appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka, and soon became the President of the Court. Sisira de Abrew Kulahath Sisira Jayawilal de Abrew is a sitting Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka who was appointed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2014 to replace Justice Nimal Gamini Amaratunga. In May 2016 de Abrew was appointed to the Judicial Service Commission by President Maithripala

neg: Military courts of the United Kingdom or community service but not service detention. The Court Martial Appeal Court, first established in 1951, hears appeals from the Court Martial. It is mostly made up of judges from the civilian Court of Appeal for England and Wales. Further appeal lies to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The judges who preside over all hearings of the Service courts are known while they are sitting as "judge advocates". In the same way as other judges they are appointed by the Lord Chancellor following a process conducted by the Judicial Appointments Commission or, in the case of the Judge

neg: John Hyde (judge) Mary Seymour, daughter of Lord Francis Seymour, in 1773. After his death she married the Rev. John Payne of Droxford. Hyde's youngest daughter Caroline Frances married Robert Walpole. John Hyde (judge) John Hyde (14 January 1738 – 8 July 1796) was a Puisne Judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal from 1774 to his death. He is the primary author of Hyde's Notebooks, a series of 58 volumes of notebooks that comprise the only known remaining source of information for the early proceedings of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William. The originals of

neg: Richard C. Wesley State Assembly from 1979 to 1982. He was a member of the Assembly from 1983 to 1986, sitting in the 185th and 186th New York State Legislatures. Wesley's judicial career began with his election to the New York State Supreme Court in 1986. He served as a trial judge on the Supreme Court from 1987 to 1994, when he was appointed to the Appellate Division. In 1997, Governor George Pataki selected Wesley as his first appointee to serve as an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. On March 5, 2003, President George W.

neg: Prasanna Jayawardena University of Colombo and at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Jayawardena was appointed to the Supreme Court as a judge by President Maithripala Sirisena in June 2016. In January 2017, he was appointed by President Sirisena to a three member Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry in the investigate the Bond Issuance at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, which published its report in December 2017. He is married with three children. Prasanna Jayawardena Justice Prasanna Sujeewa Jayawardena, PC is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He is a sitting puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, prior

neg: Richard S. Brown attorney in Racine County from 1971 until 1973, when he entered private practice in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, specializing in commercial litigation. In 1978, Brown was elected to a judgeship on the newly created Wisconsin Court of Appeals, serving in the court's Waukesha-based District II. At the time of his election, Brown was the youngest judge serving in Wisconsin's courts. In 1983, Brown was appointed presiding judge of District II. Also in 1983, Brown, who is hearing-impaired, became the first judge to use a real-time, computerized transcription system in a Wisconsin courtroom. In 1990, Brown challenged Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Donald Steinmetz,

neg: Visiting judge frequently it is a judge from another circuit (in active service or, more commonly, in senior status). Retired Supreme Court justices have done the same, including Justices O'Connor and Souter, and very unusually, sitting Justices (in 1984, for example, then-Justice William Rehnquist served as a visiting judge for a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.). This is sometimes done to ease caseload pressures, and sometimes (as in Rehnquist's case) for experience. Visiting judge A visiting judge is a judge appointed to hear a case as a member of a court to which

neg: Judiciary of Namibia of the Constitution. The High Court is presided over by the Judge-President. A full sitting of the High Court consists of the Judge-President and 6 other judges. Its jurisdiction with regard to appeals shall be determined by Acts of Parliament. Decisions of the High Court, which bind lower courts, are recorded both in Namibian and South African law reports. The decisions are recorded and summarized in the same way as Supreme Court decisions. The Labour Court is a division of the High Court. The Judge-President must assign suitable judges to the Labour Court, each of whom must be a judge

neg: Stanley Mosk Stanley Mosk Morey Stanley Mosk (September 4, 1912 – June 19, 2001) was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court for 37 years (1964–2001), and holds the record for the longest-serving justice on that court. Before sitting on the Supreme Court, he served as Attorney General of California and as a trial court judge, among other governmental positions. Mosk was the last Justice of the California Supreme Court to have served in non-judicial elected office prior to his appointment to the bench. The Los Angeles County Courthouse is named after him. Mosk was born in San Antonio, Texas. His

neg: Judicial immunity court for an en banc rehearing, which was denied. His petition to the Supreme Court was also denied. Harris v. Harvey is the first case in the United States, where a sitting court judge has been sued and lost in a civil action, it is a binding precedent in the Seventh Circuit and is persuasive authority in the other circuits. Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that the Supreme Court of Virginia did not have immunity in federal court from being enjoined in its enforcement capacity where state law gave the court independent authority to initiate certain proceedings against attorneys.

neg: Puisne judge Puisne judge A puisne judge or puisne justice (; French: "puisné" or "puîné", "since-born" i.e. "junior") is a dated term for an ordinary judge of a particular court. It excludes the court's chief judge(s)/chief justice(s) and any more senior judge, usually a specialist or managerial head, sitting "ex officio" (by virtue of their office) as a senior or special judge in the court for which they have duties below; and any technically junior judge who may have been co-opted who law reports and transcripts customarily specify as "sitting in" the more senior court or "sitting as" a judge of that

neg: Puisne judge associate justice is used by the United States Supreme Court, the DC Court of Appeal, and by most state and territorial high courts. The term "associate judge" is also used throughout the United States, but this frequently means something different from "puisne" or "associate" justice. Puisne judge A puisne judge or puisne justice (; French: "puisné" or "puîné", "since-born" i.e. "junior") is a dated term for an ordinary judge of a particular court. It excludes the court's chief judge(s)/chief justice(s) and any more senior judge, usually a specialist or managerial head, sitting "ex officio" (by virtue of their office) as

neg: National Human Rights Commission of India mandates the NHRC to perform the following functions: The NHRC consists of: (through GoI mulling appointment of retired SC Judges as chairperson) The sitting Judge of the Supreme Court or sitting Chief Justice of any High Court can be appointed only after the consultation with the Chief Justice of Supreme Court. Justice JS Kehar is going to be next chairman after H.L. Dattu The chairman of the NHRC is Justice H. L. Dattu and the other members are: Ex-officio members: A State Government may constitute a body known as the Human Rights Commission of that State to exercise the powers

neg: Mohammad Hidayatullah of a High Court. In November 1956, he was then appointed as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. On 1 December 1958, he was elevated as a justice to the Supreme Court of India. In his time he was the youngest judge of the Supreme Court of India. After serving as a judge for nearly 10 years, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on 28 February 1968 – becoming the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. He retired from this position on 16 December 1970. During his term as the Chief Justice of India, the

neg: Schriro v. Summerlin Schriro v. Summerlin Schriro v. Summerlin, 542 U.S. 348 (2004), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that a requirement that a different Supreme Court decision requiring the jury rather than the judge to find aggravating factors would not be applied retroactively. In April 1981, Warren Wesley Summerlin killed a creditor who had come to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, to inquire about a debt. He was later convicted of first-degree murder and received a death sentence. Under Arizona law at the time, a jury decided the question of guilt but a judge sitting without a

neg: Bilal Khan (judge) prohibiting all judges from taking oath on any PCO. Justice Khan was a sitting judge in Lahore High Court and choose to take the oath on November 3, 2007. Others of the 31 judges who took oath with him were Syed Zahid Hussain Bokhari, Nasim Sikandar, Khalid Alvi, Sakhi Hussain Bokhari, Muzammal Khan, Fazal-e-Miran Chohan, Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi, Hamid Ali Shah, Tariq Shamim, Syed Asghar Haider, Hasnaat Ahmad Khan and Lahore High Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry. On July 31, 2009, a 14-person panel of the Supreme Court held that the PCO of November 3, 2007, was illegal.

neg: Niall McCarthy (judge) killed in a motor accident near Seville in Spain whilst he was a sitting judge. Niall McCarthy (judge) Niall McCarthy (1925–1991) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland and a barrister. His father was a district court judge. Educated at Clongowes Wood College, the Christian Brothers in Dún Laoghaire and University College Dublin, he was called to the Bar in 1945 and the inner Bar in 1959. He was chairman of the Bar council between 1980 and his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1982. A renowned barrister of his day, his work included representing Charles Haughey in

neg: Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States time of his confirmation in 1991. As of the beginning of the 2017–18 term, Neil Gorsuch is the youngest justice sitting, at 50 years of age. The oldest person to have served on the Court was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who stepped down two months shy of his birthday. John Paul Stevens, second only to Holmes, left the court in June 2010, two months after turning 90. The average age of the Court as a whole fluctuates over time with the departure of older justices and the appointment of younger people to fill their seats. The average age of the

neg: Tim Carmody the executive and that Carmody had experience in other areas to his predecessor. The outgoing Chief Justice of Queensland, Paul de Jersey, released a press statement in which he urged the judiciary to accept the government's choice of his successor and move on. Journalist Madonna King subsequently revealed that the favourite to succeed de Jersey as Chief Justice had been David Jackson, a current judge of the Supreme Court, with Premier Campbell Newman insisting on the appointment of Carmody after Sofronoff publicly questioned Carmody's credentials. Other shortlisted candidates included other sitting Supreme Court judges, such as Court of Appeal judge

neg: Supreme Court of Texas a partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP in Dallas, and since 2009 the JCIT Chair has been Justice Rebecca Simmons. While Republican incumbents suffered massive defeats in the courts of appeals on November 6, 2018, bringing about a switch of majorities from Republicans to Democrats in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, the three Republican incumbents on the Texas Supreme Court who faced the entire Texas electorate in statewide races won comfortably. Incumbent John Devine prevailed over his opponent R.K. Sandill, a sitting district court judge of Asian-American descent in Houston, with 53.75% of the vote and secured a second term. Justice

neg: Jeffrey Steinberger Jeffrey Steinberger Jeffrey W. Steinberger is an American trial lawyer, judge pro tem and adjunct professor of law who lives in Beverly Hills. He is also a TV legal analyst. Steinberger attended Queens College, City University of New York, and he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law. After being admitted to the California State Bar Association, Steinberger worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. He has served for 20 years as judge pro tem for the Los Angeles County Superior Court system and was the youngest sitting judge pro

neg: S. Sriskandarajah also served as a high court judge in the Western Province. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in June 2004. He became the court's president in June 2011. He was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Fiji in April 2012. In January 2013 Sriskandarajah headed the Court of Appeal sitting which quashed the Parliamentary Select Committee's findings in respect of the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. Sriskandarajah and a fellow Court of Appeal judge Anil Goonarathne subsequently received death threats. In April 2013 President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed Rohini Marasinghe, who was the third most

neg: High Court (Hong Kong) The High Court Building is located at 38 Queensway, Admiralty. The 20-storey building was built in 1985 as the home of the then Supreme Court of Hong Kong, which was renamed in 1997. It was named the Supreme Court Building, and the road leading to its main entrance is still named Supreme Court Road. The High Court Building was designed by Architect K. M. Tseng. The structure is a white clad tower and has a water fountain outside its front door. Sometimes, the High Court may sit in another venue. For example, a serving District Judge sitting as a Deputy

neg: History of the Supreme Court of Canada Minister of Justice who introduced the "Supreme and Exchequer Court Act, 1875", and Jean-Thomas Taschereau, a judge of the Quebec Court of Queen's Bench. The remaining two seats went to William Johnston Ritchie, chief justice of New Brunswick, and William Alexander Henry, a former Nova Scotia MLA who lost his seat for his role as a Father of Confederation. The average age of the first six members of the Court was fifty-seven years, which would in fact be one of the youngest benches in the history of the Court. Public reaction to the appointments were mixed, especially in Montréal, where

neg: Midnight Judges Act in number from three to six, and created three new circuit judgeships for each circuit (except the sixth, which received only one circuit judge). In addition to creating new lifetime posts for Federal judges, the circuit judgeships were intended to relieve the Justices of the Supreme Court from the hardships of riding circuit (that is, sitting as judges on the circuit courts). The circuit judge-ships were abolished in 1802, and the Justices continued to ride circuit until 1879. One of the judges on the Supreme Court appointed by Adams was Chief Justice John Marshall. The Act also reorganized the district

neg: Muhammad Aslam (judge) of the decision, Aslam was deemed to have retired as a judge of Lahore High Court. In the 31 July 2009 judgement, the court also declared the creation of Islamabad High Court as unconstitutional, and of no legal effect. On 3 November 2007 Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan declared emergency and issued a Provisional Constitutional Order. A seven panel supreme court issued an order that declared the declaration of emergency as illegal and prohibited all judges to take oath on any PCO. Justice Aslam was a sitting judge in Lahore High Court choose to take the oath on PCO

neg: Lionel Lukin (judge) Capital Territory Court. Additionally, Lukin was also a judge on the Supreme Court of Queensland from 26 July 1910 until his retirement from the court on 18 July 1926. He preferred to reside in Brisbane and travelled to Rockhampton by train to discharge his duties. This allowed him to be a member of every Full Court. In 1929 Lukin was sitting as a judge on the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, where he handed down a new award for timber workers reducing wages and increasing weekly hours from 44 to 48. This precipitated the 1929 Timber Workers strike which

neg: John Charles Thomas (judge) to make partner. In 1983, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Virginia, becoming the first African American and (being 32) the youngest person of any race to sit there. In the middle of his seventh year on the court, he resigned (due to illness) and was succeeded by Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr.. who later became the court's first black chief justice. Judge Thomas now practices law in Richmond, Virginia as part of the Hunton & Williams LLP law firm. In 1995, he received the NAACP's Lifetime Image Award. In 2005, Thomas was named a member of the Court

neg: Washington court system Washington court system In Washington, there are several different state courts. Judges are elected and serve four-year or six-year terms. Most judges first come to office when the governor of Washington appoints them after a vacancy is created - either by the death, resignation, retirement, or removal of a sitting judge, or when a new seat on the bench is created by the Washington State Legislature. The Washington Supreme Court is the state supreme court of Washington. It is the highest court in the state and is based in the Temple of Justice at the Washington State Capitol campus in

neg: Joseph Aloysius Sheehy admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland, and was at the time the youngest barrister in the British Empire. In 1928, Sheehy left the Crown Solicitor's Office to practice privately at the Bar. Throughout this period, he continued to be retained as a crown prosecutor, and from 1932 to 1947 was also a member of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting. In September 1947, Sheehy was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland and became the Court’s Central Judge, based at Rockhampton. On 15 April 1965, he was appointed Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme

neg: Timothy Black Democrat and defeated sitting judge David Albanese. He served as a Hamilton County Municipal Court judge from 1994–2004. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court in 2000 and in 2002. In 2004, the Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio selected Black as a United States Magistrate Judge. In July 2009, a bipartisan commission in Ohio selected Black from a list of three finalists and recommended him to President Barack Obama to fill a vacancy on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. On December 24,

neg: Chokkalingam Nagappan a Judge of The Supreme Court of India and sworn in on 19.09.2013. Nagappan who held a relatively short tenure retired as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 03.10.2016. A three judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court, comprising Nagappan, Jasti Chelameswar, and Sharad Arvind Bobde ratified an earlier order of the Supreme Court and clarified that no Indian citizen without an Aadhaar card can be deprived of basic services and government subsidies. Chokkalingam Nagappan Chokkalingam Nagappan (born 4 October 1951) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India serving from September 2013 till his

neg: Indu Malhotra the Ministry of Law and Justice by the Government of India to review Institutionalization of Arbitration Mechanism in India. She had been unanimously recommended for appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court. Her appointment was confirmed and ordered by the Government on 26 April 2018. She is the first woman judge to be elevated directly from the Bar. She was born in 1956 in Bangalore to Om Prakash Malhotra, Senior Advocate in Supreme Court and distinguished author and late Satya Malhotra as their youngest child. She did her schooling from Carmel Convent School, New Delhi. Afterwards, she did her

neg: Rufus W. Peckham was elected to the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state. While sitting as an associate judge on the Court of Appeals, Peckham also served as a member of the Albany Law School Board of Trustees. His appointment to the New York Court of Appeals was the third position that Peckham had held after his father, who had also served as the Albany D.A., on the New York Supreme Court, and finally on the Court of Appeals until his death in the 1873 "Ville du Havre" sinking. Peckham was active in local Democratic politics, and served

neg: Sabyasachi Mukharji five days. While complying with the order he made it quite clear that timing and such issues were within the descretion of the sitting judge and not subject to superintending control. He confirmed his earlier order. On 1 March 1983, he became acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. On 15 March 1983, Mukharji was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India, and he became Chief Justice of India on 18 December 1989. In March 1989, Mukharji became involved with the Bhopal gas incident when he was appointed to head the Supreme Court's panel to examine

neg: Conrad Black U.S. District Court judge who sentenced him. On 24 June 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled 8–0 with one recusal, instructing the 7th Circuit to review all four of Black's convictions including the obstruction of justice charge, finding that the definition of honest services fraud used in Judge St. Eve's (the trial judge) charge to the jury in Black's case was too broad, "unconstitutionally vague", ruling the law could apply only to cases where bribes and kickbacks had changed hands and ordered the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to review three fraud convictions against Black in light

neg: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination a sitting judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to which she had been appointed by Bill Clinton. She had served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to which she was appointed by George H. W. Bush. Prior to her selection as President Obama's nominee, Sotomayor had been appointed as a judge by both Republican and Democratic presidents. In July 2005, a number of Senate Democrats suggested Sotomayor, among others, to President George W. Bush as a nominee acceptable to them to fill the seat of retiring Supreme

neg: Jack Pope Christi. On April 18, 2013 Pope was honored with a ceremony recognizing his 100th birthday in the Texas House of Representatives within the Texas State Capitol. The House passed a resolution in his honor and "heard words of praise from four U.S. presidents, as well as the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices." Jack Pope Andrew Jackson Pope, Jr., known as Jack Pope (April 18, 1913 – February 25, 2017), was an American judge, attorney, author and legal scholar who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Pope holds the record of the longest sitting justice in Texas

neg: John Isaiah Caldwell John Isaiah Caldwell John Isaiah Caldwell (ca. 1828) was an American attorney, miner, businessman, and school trustee. Caldwell was a native of Champaign County, Ohio. He received his legal education in his native State, being a student under Judge John A. Corwin, who was elected Chief Justice of Ohio in 1851, and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court at Columbus, Ohio. From there he went to Lexington, Missouri, where he was likewise admitted to practice before the Supreme Court sitting in banc. In 1850, Caldwell set out for California across the plains, arriving in Sacramento on August 12

neg: Mildred Lillie long after she was considered for the U.S. Supreme Court, until she died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 87. At her death, Lillie held the distinction in California of serving the longest as an appellate judge (44 years) and judicial officer (56 years), bookending a career which saw her become the youngest judge assigned to sit in criminal court in Los Angeles County. Lillie lived to see Sandra Day O'Connor become the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1981. Mildred Lillie Mildred Lillie (January 25, 1915 – October 27, 2002) was a California judge whom President

neg: Montana Supreme Court majority of the court is required for quorum, and a majority of the court must concur in all decisions. If a justice is disqualified or otherwise unable to participate in a case, a District Court judge is substituted, and their opinion is given the same weight in that case as a sitting justice. By statute, all decisions of the Montana Supreme Court must be in writing, and must set forth the grounds of the decision. However, it is up to the court to decide whether an unelaborated order or a full opinion is appropriate. If a full opinion is to

neg: George Karra 11 years, he was promoted to the Tel Aviv District Court. He was appointed a senior court judge in 2010. Karra was the judge who convicted Israeli President Moshe Katsav of rape. In another high-profile case, he convicted Ofer Nimrodi of illegal wiretapping. In 2011, he was nominated as a candidate for the Supreme Court of Israel. In February 2017, he was appointed to serve as a judge on the Supreme Court. George Karra George Karra (, ; born 1953) is an Israeli Arab jurist who currently serves as a judge on the Supreme Court of Israel. George Karra was

neg: India and the United Nations Security Council. From 1945 to present, a total of 3 members from India have been appointed as Judges of the International Court of Justice, the primary judicial branch of the United Nations. Moreover, Nagendra Singh was appointed as the President from 1985 to 1988. In addition, 3 member have also served as Judges sitting ad hoc. Now India's Supreme Court Justice 'Justice: Dalveer Bhandari' has been appointed as the judge in International Court of Justice for a second term. Justice Dalveer Bhandari has studied at JNVU Jodhpur and served as judge in both high court and The Supreme Court in

neg: Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull "Limbs in the Loch" murder. Other notable cases included Luke Mitchell, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend, Jodi Jones, in Dalkeith; and businessman Nat Fraser, who was convicted of killing his wife, Arlene Fraser, in January 2003. In 2006, Turnbull was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, the Supreme Courts of Scotland, with the judicial title, Lord Turnbull. He was at the time Scotland's youngest judge, at the age of forty-seven. He sits in the Outer House. One of his first cases on the Bench

neg: History of Chrysler (20%) and the US (8%) and Canadian (2%) governments. Fiat has stated it plans to increase its share to 35% if Chrysler meets certain goals. On June 8, 2009, Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is assigned to emergency motions arising from the United States Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in a one-sentence order, stayed the orders of the bankruptcy judge allowing the sale, pending further order by Justice Ginsburg or the Supreme Court. On June 9, 2009, the Supreme Court published its denial of the applications for a stay of the sale from the three Indiana

neg: Judge commonly used by the plaintiff or defendant. Notably, the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest unified trial court in the United States, has a rule that the judge shall be addressed only as "Your Honor" while in court, and never as "Judge," "Judge (name)," "ma'am," or "sir." This is somewhat unusual as "Judge" and "Judge (name)" or similar forms of address are considered appropriate and respectful in many other courts. The judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the judges of the supreme courts of several US states and other countries are called "justices". Justices

neg: John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey Justice, a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, Scotland's supreme courts. Already being a peer, he used his noble title whilst sitting on the Bench. He was the first serving judge to deliver the BBC's Reith Lectures, which he gave in 1986 on Law, Justice and Democracy in which he discusses his ideas of what judges should and should not be involved in. In 1989 the University of Dundee gave him an honorary doctorate. In 1992 he presided over the trial of Paul Ferris, who was accused of a gangland murder. The trial lasted 54