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On March 1, 2024, Burke entered an order declaring the Corporate Transparency Act to be unconstitutional. National Small Business United v. Janet Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-1448 (U.S.D.C. N.D. Ala. 3/1/2024). In February 2025, Burke publicly reprimanded three attorneys for "judge-shopping", by dropping a case and refiling in a different district court ...
Motivated in part by this concern, in 1977 the American Bar Association (ABA) formed the Kutak Commission (formally the Commission on Evaluation of Professional Standards) for the purpose of evaluating the adequacy of the existing ethics rules, including the Model Code of Professional Responsibility. [29]
The working group tracked and studied the pilot program for three years, and after its reports and recommendations over that time, the Supreme Court made the Commercial Courts permanent in 2019. Welch was again one of six Indiana judges assigned to the Commercial Court in 2019, and continued as a Commercial Court judge until her retirement in 2024.
On December 23, 2024, President Joe Biden vetoed the JUDGES Act. In his veto statement, Biden expressed concerns that the legislation was expedited without adequately resolving critical questions, particularly regarding the allocation of new judgeships and the consideration of the roles of senior status judges and magistrate judges in assessing ...
[12] [13] Bjelkengren received a "Qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. [14] On May 11, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by a party-line 11–10 vote. [15] [16] Her nomination was again returned to the president on January 3, 2024. [17] On January 9, 2024, Bjelkengren withdrew her name from consideration as a ...
The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the United States; national in scope, it is not specific to any single jurisdiction. Founded in 1878, [ 2 ] the ABA's stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools , and the formulation of model ethical codes related to the ...
Karoline Mehalchick (born 1976) [2] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania since 2024. She previously served as the chief magistrate judge of the same court from 2021 to 2024 as well as a magistrate judge of the same court from 2013 to 2024.
Albert J. Matricciani Jr. (born 1947) is a retired American judge in the state of Maryland, who served both at the trial and appellate levels of Maryland's state court system. As a trial level judge, Matricianni was in charge of the Baltimore Circuit Court's Family Law Division for five years, and was later instrumental in creating the ...