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...
In this country, the existence of loyalty links between judges and predominant political elites impaired the emergence of an influential judiciary during the democratic years - a phenomenon that was particularly clear in the longstanding lack of political clout of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. Moreover...
Because law clerks are integral to the work of the Supreme Court, the selection of clerks is important. Observers of the Court have referred to "feeder judges," by which we mean court of appeals judges from whom justices draw large numbers of clerks. This article analyzes the feeder-judge ...
GOP’s Cornyn Repeatedly Threatened Judges; Now Demands Schumer Apology Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday expressed regret that he “used the words I used yesterday” in warning Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch of the public backlash their reproductive rights ruli...
My understanding is that lower court IP judges would consider them when deciding cases because they are statements of the view of the SPC IP Court on that particular issue. A second issue for all these typical cases is that there does not seem to be a mechanism for reviewing previously ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has revoked a law license from a former Milwaukee County juvenile court judge who had pleaded guilty to federal charges of transmitting child pornography.
The simple answer is that “case law” is not effective enough to practically guide lower court judges. If it were, the SPC would not have issued this document. I have seen a number of academic articles (in English) that illustrate a misunderstanding of what the SPC is doing. ...
DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan Supreme Court justice has a message for judges who seem to seek vengeance: cool it, folks. FILE – In this Jan. 23, 2013, file photo, new Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bridget McCormack sits on the bench after being sworn in at the Michigan Supreme Court...
Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will become the first African American woman to serve as a justice on the nation's highest court. Once she replaces retiring associate justice Stephen G. Breyer, whom she worked for as a Supreme Co...
clear up those unresolved cases (要抓好长期未结案件清理,确保依法妥善清理案件)–this is being taken seriously by court leaders, again judges (and their clerks, assistants and interns). The PhDs (and Master’s degree holders) praised by the SPC may feel they are somewhere between a model prod...