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The United States District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed the lawsuit, with judge Thomas Whelan stating that Proposition 12 did not attempt to fully regulate the pork industry in other states. [2] The ruling was upheld in a 3-0 decision at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [1]
She also did pioneering work in the area of lesbian custody and family law. [6] Later she moved to mediation and prevention of harassment and investigated Equal Employment Opportunity complaints. Oppenheimer served as administrative law judge at the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board from 1992 to 2011. [7]
Barrett spent two years as a judicial law clerk after law school, first for Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 1998, and then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1998 to 1999.
DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imburgia, 577 U.S. ___ (2015), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States clarified when arbitration provisions in contracts are governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian public interest law firm, represented the property owners in the case, and has provided its pro bono counsel to a number of victories against the ...
Vanderburgh County Circuit Court Judge David Kiely issued the sentence during a 2 p.m. hearing, saying at one point that Word, 48, had been "crucified” in the media and in the community she served.
To be eligible to become a superior court judge in California, one must have been a member of the State Bar of California for at least ten years. [3] One quirk of California law is that when a party petitions the appellate courts for a writ of mandate (California's version of mandamus), the case name becomes [petitioner name] v.
She explained in a concurring opinion that the court had acted too swiftly in taking up the case before the legal arguments on both sides had been fleshed out. “That was a miscalculation,” she ...