New answers tagged rules-of-court
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Why don't courts punish time-wasting tactics?
As it happens, this question was based on a wrong premise entirely, since the case was, in fact, dismissed, a result widely anticipated by legal commentators.
More generally, if the motion to dismiss ...
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On the limits of a law clerk to the judge to "co-judge" a case and how the communications should be recorded
canada
For a comparative perspective, I present the situation in Canada, which seems to match bdb484's answer for the U.S.
Communication between a judge and their law clerk within the scope of the ...
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On the limits of a law clerk to the judge to "co-judge" a case and how the communications should be recorded
Short of forging the judge's signature or acting with a conflict of interest, there's really not much a law clerk can do to "improperly" contribute to the judge's work.
Although Trump's ...
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Can presiding judges ever be subject to law enforcement?
Judicial immunity is limited to civil liability. It doesn't insulate a judge from criminal liability. A law enforcement officer (or a citizen making a citizen's arrest) could arrest a judge in the ...
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Can presiding judges ever be subject to law enforcement?
When an arrest would be lawful
A police officer may arrest you if:
They suspect on reasonable grounds that you have committed an offence or are about to commit an offence
They have a warrant for ...
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