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After graduating from law school, Ho was a law clerk to Fifth Circuit judge Jerry Edwin Smith from 1999 to 2000. He then was in private practice in Washington, D.C., at the law firm Gibson Dunn from 2000 to 2001. [7] He assisted Gibson Dunn partner Theodore Olson with his representation of George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore. [8]
Dale Edwin Ho (born 1977) [2] is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prior to becoming a judge, he was the director of the American Civil Liberties Union 's voting rights project.
The rule of law on this conception is the ideal of rule by an accurate public conception of individual rights. It does not distinguish, as the rule book conception does, between the rule of law and substantive justice; on the contrary it requires, as part of the ideal of law, that the rules in the book capture and enforce moral rights.
The trier of fact is a judge in bench trials, or the jury in any cases involving a jury. [1] The law of evidence is also concerned with the quantum (amount), quality, and type of proof needed to prevail in litigation. The rules vary depending upon whether the venue is a criminal court, civil court, or family court, and they vary by jurisdiction.
Strict rules of evidence is a term sometimes used in and about Anglophone common law.The term is not always seen as belonging to technical legal terminology; legislation seldom if ever names a set of laws with the term "strict rules of evidence"; and the term's precise application varies from one legal context to another.
A new federal judge has been assigned to the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex-trafficking case, and it's the same judge currently overseeing the Department of Justice antitrust case against Ticketmaster.
The rules were intended to halt a divergence in practice that had developed among different police forces, and replaced earlier informal guidance, such as Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law. The Judges' Rules were not rules of law, but rather rules of practice for the guidance of the police, setting out the kinds of ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Judge Judy is offering advice to women free of charge. Television's most popular judge is celebrating the 19th season opening of her syndicated show Monday by offering her new book ...