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unusual facts about court of appeals



Blandair

The Appellants filed a petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the Court of Appeals (this is the process in Maryland to obtain a discretionary appeal with that court).

Joseph F. Murphy, Jr.

Prior to being appointed to the Court of Appeals, Judge Murphy served as the Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland's intermediate court of appeals.

Law of Brazil

Some states, as São Paulo and Minas Gerais, used to have Court of Appeals (Tribunal de Alçada in Portuguese) which had different jurisdiction.

National Assembly of the Philippines

Among the first of such measures were the National Defense Act of 1935, which created the Philippine Army; the creation of the National Economic Council, to serve as an advisory body on economic matters; and the creation of the Court of Appeals.

Roger Robb

The son of Court of Appeals Judge Charles Henry Robb, Roger Robb was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont.

Varoujan Garabedian

After spending 17 years in jail, he was pardoned by Bourges court of appeals on April 23, 2001 on the condition that he be deported to Armenia.


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Archibald Buchanan

Archibald C. Buchanan (1890–1979), Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia

Benjamin Mackall IV

She was the sister of Richard Potts who would later serve with Benjamin on Maryland's Court of Appeals.

Brian K. Zahra

While on the Michigan Court of Appeals, Zahra joined Judges Kurtis Wilder and Joel Hoekstra in upholding a state constitutional amendment barring public employers from recognizing same-sex unions.

Charles Becton

Gov. Jim Hunt appointed Becton to the N.C. Court of Appeals in January 1981 to replace Richard Erwin.

Charles D. Breitel

In November 1973, he was elected on the Republican and Liberal tickets Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, defeating Democrat Jacob D. Fuchsberg and Conservative James J. Leff.

Cheryl B. Preston

After graduating from J. Reuben Clark in 1979, Preston clerked for the Honorable Monroe G. McKay of the Tenth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, in Utah.

Chester B. McLaughlin

In November 1917, he was elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets to a full term on the Court of Appeals, and remained on the bench until the end of 1926 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.

Christopher Yoo

Following his graduation he clerked for Judge Arthur Raymond Randolph of the United States Court of Appeals and for Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy.

ConnectU

In May 2011, after the Court of Appeals found against the Winklevosses, the twins announced that they would petition the Supreme Court of the United States to hear the case.

Constitution of Chad

Regarding the highest judiciary bodies it states that, prior to their establishment, their functions will be exercised by the Court of Appeals of N'Djamena.

Crystal Nix Hines

She also clerked for Justice William A. Norris on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit from 1990 to 1991.

Daniel Anderson

Daniel P. Anderson, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals

Daniel L. LaRocque

LaRocque would eventually become a Chief Judge before being appointed to the Court of Appeals by Governor Tony Earl in 1985.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

David O. Stewart

Stewart was law clerk to Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court during October Term, 1979, after working as law clerk for two appellate judges, J. Skelly Wright and David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Edgar M. Cullen

After the resignation of Alton B. Parker, Cullen was appointed in September 1904 by Governor Benjamin Barker Odell, Jr. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Erik Bluemel

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2008, he clerked for the Honorable Barefoot Sanders in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the Honorable Kermit Edward Bye in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee

Justice Joseph Story refused to accept, as final, the Virginia Court of Appeals' interpretation of Virginia law.

Feminine style of management

, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled jobs held my men must be "substantially equal" but not "identical" to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act and that it is therefefore illegal for employers to change the job titles of women workers in order to pay them less than men.

Harry Lee Anstead

Prior to his appointment to the Florida Supreme Court by Governor Lawton Chiles, Anstead served as a judge on Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals from 1977 to 1994.

Hatton, North Dakota

Kermit Edward Bye, federal judge on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

James Beaty

James A. Beaty, Jr. (born 1949), U.S. District Judge and former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

John E. Simonett

Upon Simonett's mandatory retirement from the Supreme Court in 1994, Governor Arne Carlson appointed Paul H. Anderson, then Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals, to take Simonett's place, and chose one of Simonett's daughters, Hennepin County District Court Judge Anne Simonett, to succeed Anderson as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.

Justice Page

Henry Page, an Associate Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals

Justice West

Jesse F. West, an Associate Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Mayer Lehman

Irving Lehman - Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1940-1945; Longtime president of the 92nd Street Y and Temple Emanu-El.

Michael Daly

Michael Daly Hawkins (born 1954), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,

Michael G. Waddoups

Waddoups was scrutinized for his outspoken opposition to Judge Robert Hilder during Hilder's confirmation hearings for the Utah State Court of Appeals.

Natural Resources Research Institute

With a strong belief in its long-term value, U.S. Eighth District Court of Appeals Judge Gerald Heaney advocated for applied research.

Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

John M. Tyson, 1979, former judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

North Shore Country Day School

James L. Oakes '41 - Senior Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1992 to 2007

Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife v. Klamath Indian Tribe

The Supreme Court reversed the previous decisions in the District Court and the Court of Appeals stating that the exclusive right to hunt, fish, and gather roots, berries, and seeds on the lands reserved to the Klamath Tribe by the 1864 Treaty was not intended to survive as a special right to be free of state regulation in the ceded lands that were outside the reservation after the 1901 Agreement.

Palacio de los Tribunales de Justicia de Santiago

The Palacio de los Tribunales de Justicia de Santiago (English: Courts of Justice Palace of Santiago) is the building housing the Supreme Court of Chile, the Court of Appeals of Santiago, and the Court-martial Court of the Chilean Army, Chilean Air Force and Carabineros de Chile.

Paul G. Gardephe

Albert J. Engel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1982 to 1983.

Pierce Lively

He received an LL.B. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1948, and was a law clerk to Shackelford Miller, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit from 1948 to 1949.

Princeton Law School

Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University.

Puerto Rico Office of Legislative Services

Another two, Nélida Jiménez-Velázquez and Teresa Medina Monteserrín, have moved on to the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals, and three have become Superior Court judges, including Juan R. Melecio-Machuca, Carlos García-Jaunarena and Elba Rosa Rodríguez-Fuentes.

Simon W. Rosendale

For ten years was president of the court of appeals of the Order of B'nai B'rith.

South Carolina Law Review

Karen J. Williams, Former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

State Bar of Georgia

He later served as State Bar president and on the Georgia Court of Appeals, and his law partner, Norman Fletcher, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Texas Law Review

Diane Wood, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Thénia

During the French occupation, the town was renamed Ménerville, after Charles-Louis Pinson de Ménerville (1808-1876), the first president of the court of appeals in Algiers.

Theodore Jones

Theodore T. Jones (born 1944), New York State Court of Appeals judge

Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse

who had worked at the courthouse from 1961 to 1965 as a judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals before later being elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States.

United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

The U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims was created on November 18, 1988, by the Veterans' Judicial Review Act of 1988.

William Cottrell

A letter in Cottrell’s defense, signed by Stephen Hawking and other prominent scientists, was distributed to prison authorities and the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at Cottrell’s October 18, 2006 hearing.

William Eugene Davis

W. Eugene Davis, a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

William Ruger

William C. Ruger (1824–1892), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

William Thorne

William A. Thorne, Jr., Judge of the Utah Court of Appeals (2000–present)