Supreme People’s Court judge convicted of taking bribes July 10, 20162 Comments Bottega Veneta man bag (©BV) In a blow to the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)’s efforts to bolster its prestige and that of the Chinese judiciary, a ruling recently published on the SPC’scourt databasereve...
A highly experienced Chinese judge commented to me that an important reason for lower court judges to request instructions is to avoid “making mistakes” that may have negative consequences on the individual judges or panel of judges involved or may lead a higher court to reverse the lower court...
The Sixth Circuit panel divided on the injunction’s scope just like the Supreme Court. Chief Judge Sutton and Judge Batchelder formed the majority, finding that the three “central provisions of the Rule . . . appear to touch every substantive provision.” Saddling school administrators with ...
The justices affirmed a 2021 ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Helix must face Hewitt's 2017 lawsuit seeking overtime pay. That lawsuit now goes back to a federal judge in Houston. A 1940 regulation holds that highly compensated workers - currently defin...
May 26, 2023 In a decision issued on May 25, 2023, the US Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota “strict foreclosure” statute for unpaid real property taxes. The statute permits real estate taxing authorities to retain proceeds from the sale of the taxpayer’s property i...
On January 23, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed In re Grand Jury, which had asked it to expand the scope of attorney-client privilege protection for dual-purpose communications, i.e., communications (particularly those involving in-house at
When Pres.Bill Clintonnominated Sotomayor to be a judge of theU.S. Court of Appealsfor the Second Circuit in 1997, Republican senators delayed her appointment for more than a year because of their concerns that the position might lead to a Supreme Court nomination. After her appointment to th...
meritorious candidates would only be an asset for the institution helping in disposal of cases. This Court further directed to allow to all these eight candidates the benefits of increment and other notional benefits at par to other selected candidates as per their merits without arrears of salary...
Although no formal announcement has been made in the Chinese press (of which I am aware), it appears that sometime during the last six months, more likely before early June (2023), the Supreme People’s Court (SPC)’s Judicial Reform Office, or more formally the office of the SPC’sle...
The National Judges College academic journal Journal of Law Application just published an article by a Beijing Higher Court judge, reviewing the duty lawyer scheme, with analogous findings to Jeremy’s. 9. For those interested in how the supervision commission is/will affect criminal cases, Guo ...