Who are to be the judges? What is understood by excessive fines? It lies with the court to determine. No cruel and unusual punishment is to be inflicted; it is sometimes necessary to hang a man, villains often deserve whipping, and perhaps having their ears cut off; but are we in ...
“Sad, but true: The Court’s embrace of the adverse-possession theory of executive power (a characterization the majority resists but does not refute) will be cited in diverse contexts, including those presently unimagined, and will have the effect of aggrandizing the presidency beyond i...
crimes involving Indians, that the Navajo Tribe has never given up its sovereign power to punish tribal offenders, nor has that power implicitly been lost by virtue of the Indians' dependent status; thus, tribal exercise of that power is presently the continued exercise of retained tribal ...
Create a two tier structure so that if nearly all the judges of the new Principal Court agree, a decision of that panel could be revieweden banc**, just as is presently done in the Federal appellate courts. Mandate that judges over a certain age be moved to emeritus status so that they...
A panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the law on Dec. 6, then denied an emergency plea to delay the law’s implementation. Without court action, the law would take effect Jan. 19 and expose app stores that offer ...
A panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the law on Dec. 6, then denied an emergency plea to delay the law’s implementation. Without court action, the law would take effect Jan. 19...
A panel of federal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuitunanimously upheldthe law on Dec. 6, thendeniedan emergency plea to delay the law's implementation. Without court action, the law would take effect Jan. 19 and ...
Former President and current President Elect Donald Trump appointed 234 judges during his first term. Three of these were to the United States Supreme Court. This is quite unique on several levels. Only three presidents, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower had three or more confir...
Five measures have been implemented to enable the efficient allocation of the Court's resources and to enhance the Court's ability to promote the further development of the law: the Court may decide relatively simple cases by a panel of three rather than five judges; the Court may dismiss ...
Chase also assigns as error a supplemental instruction given after the jury retired, but upon their request. The jury, after some deliberation, returned into court and informed the judge that they presently stood eleven to one, and had been unable to break the deadlock because one juror did ...