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Chief judges have administrative responsibilities with respect to their circuits, and preside over any panel on which they serve, unless the circuit justice (the Supreme Court justice responsible for the circuit) is also on the panel. Unlike the Supreme Court, where one justice is specifically nominated to be chief, the office of chief judge ...
A table of points and authorities serves as a table of contents for the argument section of a brief, followed by a list of the cases and statutes upon which the brief relies. Some states require the authorities that appear in each section of the document to be listed in the order in which they appear. [4]
The Tenth Circuit was created in 1929 by subdividing the existing Eighth Circuit, and the Eleventh Circuit was created in 1981 by subdividing the existing Fifth Circuit. The Federal Circuit was created in 1982 by the merger of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the appellate division of the United States Court of Claims.
Even the colors of the covers of the briefs are specified: the petitioner's brief must have a blue cover and the respondent's must have a red cover. The Court also often receives briefs from amici curiae (friends of the Court) in particular cases, and these must have a green cover. This color-coding comes in very handy when you have a stack of ...
President Bill Clinton nominated Bye to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on April 22, 1999, to fill a vacancy created by the 1998 death of Judge John David Kelly, who was Bye's friend and former law partner. [3] "I'm very pleased in the trust the president has placed in me and I'm honored to be able to follow my friend ...
There are 87 rules in the FRCP, which are grouped into 11 titles. There are also two separate supplemental rules governing certain actions under admiralty law (Rules B-F) and civil forfeiture (Rule G); and for individual social security actions (Supplemental Rules 1-8). Listed below are the most commonly used categories and rules.
In the common law tradition, only the Court of Chancery had the power to grant prerogative writs that directed inferior tribunals to send a record of proceedings to a higher court for review. [9] Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Court of King's Bench also gained the power to issue prerogative writs. [ 9 ]
In the most common types of habeas corpus proceedings in the United States federal courts, a certificate of appealability is a legal document that must be issued before a petitioner may appeal from a denial of the writ. [1] The certificate may only be issued when the petitioner has made a "substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional ...