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On May 9, 2013, on the recommendation of Senator Chuck Schumer, President Barack Obama nominated Woods to serve as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, to the seat vacated by Judge Barbara S. Jones, who took senior status on December 31, 2012.
The Judges' Rules are a set of guidelines about police and questioning and the acceptability of the resulting statements and confessions as evidence in court. Originally prepared for police in England, the Rules and their successor documents have become a part of legal procedure not just in Britain but in places as far afield as Jamaica, Zambia and Western Samoa where English law is followed.
The "Rule of Four" has been explained by various Justices in judicial opinions throughout the years. [2] For example, Justice Felix Frankfurter described the rule as follows: "The 'rule of four' is not a command of Congress. It is a working rule devised by the Court as a practical mode of determining that a case is deserving of review, the ...
Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944) [2] [3] is an American judge who is a senior district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. [4] [5] Wood received her undergraduate education at Connecticut College before gaining an MSc at the London School of Economics. In 1969, she earned a J.D. from ...
Judge Woods may refer to: Charles Albert Woods (1852–1925), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; George E. Woods (1923–2007), judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; Gregory H. Woods (born 1969), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Judge Kimba Wood, the brilliant legal mind who has served in Manhattan Federal Court since 1988 and was once nominated for the U.S. Attorney General post, briefly worked at a Playboy casino in 1966.
George E. Woods (October 10, 1923 – October 9, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Education and career [ edit ]
An in-chambers opinion is an opinion by a single justice or judge of a multi-member appellate court, rendered on an issue that the court's rules or procedures allow a single member of the court to decide. The judge is said to decide the matter "in chambers" because the decision can be issued from the judge's chambers without a formal court ...