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Judges can forfeit or resign their chief judgeship or acting chief judgeship while retaining their active status as a circuit judge. [6] When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known as senior status, or declined to serve as chief judge. After ...
Julius Ness "Jay" Richardson (born October 26, 1976) is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina .
The United States Courts of Appeals or circuit courts are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide cases. Of the thirteen US courts of appeals, twelve are divided into geographical jurisdictions.
The district court held the claimed invention obvious and the patent invalid, [3] because (according to the court of appeals) it believed that it was known that the answer to the problem of cold joints lay in heat treatment and that a generator of the type described by the inventor "would do the job." [4] The district judge concluded:
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: Full case name: Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board : Argued: September 16, 2022: Decided: May 23, 2023: Citation: 68 F.4th 864 (4th Cir. 2023). Case history; Appealed from: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia: Appealed to: Supreme Court of the ...
Nicole Gina Berner (born 1965) [1] is an American-Israeli lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.She served as general counsel for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 2017 to 2024 and a partner at the law firm of James & Hoffman.
Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, 323 F.2d 959 (4th Cir. 1963), [1] was a federal case, reaching the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that "separate but equal" racial segregation in publicly funded hospitals was a violation of equal protection under the United States Constitution.
Gregory was the first judge nominated to the Fourth Circuit by Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate and is the first black judge to serve on the Fourth Circuit. [5] He received his commission on July 25, 2001. [6] Gregory became chief judge on July 8, 2016. [7] and served a seven-year-term through July 8, 2023.