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The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
First Korean American U.S. federal judge [85] Kenneth Chu Administrative Law Judge, National Labor Relations Board (2012– ) New York: active [86] Regina M. Chu Minnesota Fourth Judicial District (2002–2022) Senior Judge (2023– ) Minnesota: Senior [87] [88] Theodore D. Chuang: United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2014 ...
The position of stipendiary magistrate in New Zealand was renamed in 1980 to that of district court judge. The position was often known simply as "magistrate" or with the postnominal initials "SM" in newspapers' court reports. In the late 1990s, a position of community magistrate was created for District Courts on a trial basis. A community ...
Magistrates' court (England and Wales) Magistrates' court (Hong Kong) District Court (Ireland), the main court of summary jurisdiction in Ireland Magistrate's courts of Israel
C. James G. Carr; Silvia Carreño-Coll; Joel M. Carson III; Andrew L. Carter Jr. Robin J. Cauthron; Dennis M. Cavanaugh; Richard F. Cebull; Claire C. Cecchi
Kidd was born in 1983 in Birmingham, Alabama.He attended Emory University on a full-tuition scholarship, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, as well as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
The magistrate, as in the inquisitorial system of continental European law, was both prosecutor and judge. He decided which cases to accept, directed the gathering of evidence and witnesses, then conducted the trial, including the use of torture. The magistrate was the sole judge of guilt or innocence and determined the punishment or compensation.