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Scalia said that although the court's "impulse to intervene when a litigant's lawyer had made mistakes is understandable," precedent demands a finding that the petitioner is "out of luck."
No automatic deportation of immigrants for minor drug offenses, justices rule 2010
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When Judge Leon Higginbotham was a young federal District Court judge presiding over an employment discrimination action, he wrote a seminal decision denying a litigant's recusal motion that was based on the judge's being an African-American and having been involved in the civil rights movement.
Judith S. Kaye: Judging the Judge: A Matter of Rights and Wrongs 2010
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The only way the facts in Capteron could be more egregious would be if the litigant had sent a certified letter to the judge telling him he'd give his campaign three million bucks if the judge cast the deciding vote the right way in the litigant's $50 million lawsuit.
More on Roberts delagar 2009
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The only way the facts in Capteron could be more egregious would be if the litigant had sent a certified letter to the judge telling him he'd give his campaign three million bucks if the judge cast the deciding vote the right way in the litigant's $50 million lawsuit.
Archive 2009-06-01 delagar 2009
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Twenty years ago in New York, a judge ruled on a divorce case while the litigant's girlfriend, Bess Myerson, helped the judge's daughter get a job.
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But the Times, which has been drawn into a vexatious litigant's smear campaign against Kozinski -- see Gordon Crovitz
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The job of the court is to expound and explain neutral, general principles of law and measure the litigant's cases against those standards.
McCain and Obama both criticized the Supreme Court for rejecting the death penalty for the rape of a child, but McCain points to the real distinction. Ann Althouse 2008
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Supreme Court to hear the case and "clarify the circumstances in which due process requires the recusal of an elected judge who has benefited from a litigant's substantial campaign expenditures."
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According to the article, a number of things make Wisconsin attractive for every litigant's forum-shopping needs:
Archive 2007-03-01 Peter Zura 2007
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According to the article, a number of things make Wisconsin attractive for every litigant's forum-shopping needs:
Patent Plaintiffs: W.D. Wisconsin Welcomes You! Peter Zura 2007
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