Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and
Appointing judges often involves a powerplay and some compromise, such as the 2016 unforeseen death of sitting Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative, which during a Presidential election year created chaos among the Republican-controlled Congress: allow Democratic President Barack Obama to appoint a re...
The Guiding Opinion authorizes certain senior members of a court (court president, vice president, head of division, as part of their supervisory authority (under the Organic Law of the People’s Courts) to chair meetings of judges (who exactly will attend depends on the court- to discuss cer...
Supreme Court: Can judges tell California to release 40,000 prisoners?(USA)A three-judge panel ordered California officials to reduce the state's prison population by 30,000 to 40,000 inmates. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case.Richey, Warren...
The case was brought by George Jarkesy, a hedge fund manager the SEC barred from the industry after an administrative court determined that he had committed fraud. Jarkesy challenged the constitutionality of the SEC’s administrative law judges, or ALJs,... ...
“originalist” Supreme Court justices who have the audacity to suggest they can fathom what the Founding Fathers meant and disregard all the changes since then, to actually make law. Five justices contradicting the 435 elected members of the House and 100 elected members of the Senate and the...
posts, and as readers may be aware, the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) launched a new internal platform, the Court Answers Database (法答网, “Answers Database”) in July 2023 (last year’s announcement), to provide authoritative answers on legal questions to overworked lower court judges....
After two or three months, the court president has an opportunity to report again. It is a type of facilitation. Seemyrecent blogpost related to people’s congress supervision. 2. Peoples Accessors (Lay Judges) System –although the terminology in Chinese is similar to a jury, it is actual...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Supreme Court, Jurist, Legal Theory: In 1880–81 Holmes was invited to lecture on the common law at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and from these addresses developed his book The Common Law (1881). Here the genius of Holmes
Judge Gao forthrightly flags a list of issues (my comments initalics) that the SPC faces in establishing an international commercial court. It is likely that she and her colleagues are aware of the additional issues raised as well. judges; she notes that Dubai and Singapore have foreign judges...