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...Sotheby’s has “agreed to participate in a mediation with a magistrate judge” though is understood to be ready to go to trial if need be....
...It was a run-of-the-mill arraignment at which a magistrate judge essentially makes sure the defendants understand the charges that were brought against them, reads them their rights, asks them how they plead...
...To head off a recruitment crisis, the British government has just raised the retirement age for judges and magistrates from 70 to 75....
...Mr O’Connell added that if Democratic lawmakers were too aggressive in questioning Judge Barrett or others, they risked losing support among suburban women....
...“We don’t want the US plea bargaining system to be introduced by the back door,” he added....
...“They turn us into what they left.”...
...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...Under the US-UK agreement, enforcement bodies will submit requests for information concerning terrorism or other “serious crimes” to a judge, magistrate or “other independent authority”....
...Reed O’Connor, a US district judge, on Friday upheld a lawsuit brought by 20 Republican states saying the former president’s signature healthcare law is unconstitutional....
...“This is an issue they’ve been scaremongering about since Justice O’Connor was nominated . . ....
...Rana Foroohar responds O tempora! O mores! * Nothing else to say this week really. I’m too busy indulging my anthropomorphic sense of humour. #freesassy * Oh the times! Oh the manners!...
...When Susan Fowler wrote her blog post in February on the harassment she had experienced at Uber, the software enginner was close to a lone voice in Silicon Valley....
...This is in addition to the days he had to spend in prison in October 2011 before he could raise £10m security that a magistrate had ordered as part of his conditional bail....
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work, by Susan Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£16.49/$27.95 With unprecedented access to the eccentric but often profound personal annotations in the thousands of books...
...Separately on Friday, Richard O’Dwyer, a 23-year-old Sheffield Hallam University student, lost his appeal against a US extradition request following a ruling at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court....
...Collected Poems , by Sean O’Brien, Picador, RRP£20 From the surety of his first collection The Indoor Park (1983), O’Brien sustains a 30-year career in verse, with a near-icy hand for precise expression...
...At one session, the magistrate judge opens by thanking the lawyers for the plaintiffs and for BP, who are on opposing sides of the case, for throwing such a good party the previous night....
...The parallel world of examining magistrates and judges is one of corruption and political pressure, as if, in a late Marxist flourish, the writers present a fable of justly doomed bourgeois professionals...
...Mr Assange, dressed in a dark jacket and an open-necked white shirt, spoke from the dock at Horseferry Road Magistrates’ Court only to confirm his name and other personal details....
...“I judge them as a political operation.”...
...employment, although she later became (and remains) a lay magistrate....
...On the face of it, the working life of Susan Herrmann Loomis is a dream come true....
...That changed, as he was tasked with expanding the department, and was eventually sent by Susan Klooz, one of his deputies, to a meeting of minority lawyers in Chicago....
...“The cost of privilege review in these cases is nothing short of horrifying,” says John Facciola, a US magistrate judge who is an expert on electronic discovery....
...How the epic scale fits with the BBC tradition of clever, low-budget takes on the period is harder to judge....
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