Mr. Simpkins will move into the post being vacated by Thomas B. Finan, earlier named Attorney General to succeed C. Ferdinand Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship on the Maryland Court of Appeals.

Appeals for Whitacre's full pardon or clemency to the White House are supported by several current and former justice department officials: Dean Paisley, a retired 25-year veteran and former FBI supervisor on the price-fixing case ; two other FBI agents involved with the case ; a former Attorney General of the United States ; one of the former Asst.

In 1890, Taft was appointed Solicitor General of the United States and in 1891 a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

* To decide as only instance on the criminal cases against the President and Vice-president of the Republic, Senators, Deputies, Ministers, Vice-ministers, Supreme Court Judges, Public General Attorney, Judges and General Attorneys of Appeals Courts, State attorneys of the Land Courts and Judges of Administrative Courts.

Eight other Solicitors General have served on the United States Courts of Appeals.

Their appeal in the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals was opposed by United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell and the U. S. Department of Justice.

* Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General, former District Court of Appeals Judge, former member of the United States House of Representatives

Attorneys General Alberto Gonzales and Janet Reno, among others, and noted federal judges Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Michael Boudin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Laurence Silberman of the D. C.

Appeals for clemency were dismissed by Chief Martial Law Administrator General Zia-ul-Haq.

The prosecutor, who was appointed by a special panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, could investigate allegations of any misconduct, with an unlimited budget and no deadline, and could be dismissed only by the Attorney General for " good cause " or by the special panel of the court when the independent counsel's task was completed.

Previously under the Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994, United States Attorney General Janet Reno had Donald C. Smaltz appointed Independent Counsel by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ( Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels Ethics in Government Act of 1978, As Amended, Division 94-2 ) on September 9, 1994, to " investigate to the maximum extent authorized by law " whether the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy " committed a violation of any federal criminal law.

In April 2009, President Obama nominated Craig Becker ( Associate General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union ), Mark Gaston Pearce ( a member on the Industrial Board of Appeals, an agency of the New York State Department of Labor ), and Brian Hayes ( Republican Labor Policy Director for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ) to fill the three empty seats on the NLRB.

* Herbert Choy, Attorney General for the Territory of Hawaii ( 1957 – 1958 ), first Korean American judge in the federal court system-US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ( 1971 – 1984 )

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

From 1973 to 1974 he served as law clerk to Judge Frank M. Coffin, Chief Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and from 1974 to 1976 was Assistant to the U. S. Solicitor General, Robert Bork.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the block, stating that the " Attorney General lacked Congress ' requisite authorization ".

In addition to the two major services, the agency also includes twelve staff offices and the independent Office of the Inspector General and Civilian Board of Contract Appeals.

* former Solicitor General, U. S. Attorney General, and U. S. Court of Appeals judge Robert Bork ;

* Robert Bork: Former Solicitor General of the United States, acting Attorney General of the United States, and Judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the D. C.

* Laurence Silberman, Republican, retired U. S. Court of Appeals judge, Deputy Attorney General under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Ambassador to Yugoslavia, et al., co-Chairman

* Charles H. Nesbitt, ( 1947 – ), decorated Vietnam veteran, former NYS Assemblyman and NYS Assembly Minority Leader of the Republican Party, current president of the NYS Division of Tax Appeals and Tax Appeals Tribunal

When legislation aimed at providing relief to the state's debtors was struck down by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, supporters of the legislation in the General Assembly passed a bill abolishing the Court and creating a new court, which they stocked with sympathetic justices.

The Assembly then attempted to abolish the Court of Appeals and create a new one, beginning the Old Court-New Court controversy.

Unable to muster the votes to remove the hostile justices on the Court of Appeals, Relief partisans in the General Assembly passed legislation to abolish the entire court and create a new one, which Governor Desha promptly stocked with sympathetic judges.

An act of the new General Assembly in 1779 created four superior courts, including the Supreme Court of Appeals, to be composed of judges of the other three existing courts: the Admiralty, the General, and the Chancery Courts.

Finally, in 1983, the General Assembly created the Court of Appeals of Virginia, effective January 1, 1985.

The Court of Appeals consists of eleven judges who are elected for eight year terms by a majority of the members of each house of the General Assembly.

Kernan was school commissioner of Utica, manager of the New York State Hospital, Reporter of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1857, a member of the New York State Assembly ( Oneidaq Co., 1st D .) in 1861, and a regent of the University of the State of New York from 1870 until his death.

In the first week of April 1533, Parliament passed the bill into law as the Act in Restraint of Appeals, ensuring that any verdict concerning the King's marriage could not be challenged in Rome.

In 2003, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the Elizabeth Morgan Act as a bill of attainder.

In November 2009, during intense debates over American health care reform, Matheson voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act. When President Obama named Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at a time where he needed Matheson's vote for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The Weekly Standard posted an article that said " Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House ; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their vote to yes.

In 1975, in Daniel v. Waters, the U. S. Sixth Circuit of Appeals struck down Tennessee's " equal time " bill.

The petitioners appealed the bill to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and that body upheld the State Supreme Court decision in the case of Crawford v. Marion County Election Board.

The United States Revenue Act of 1924 () ( June 2, 1924 ), also known as the Mellon tax bill cut federal tax rates and established the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, which was later renamed the United States Tax Court in 1942.

President Calvin Coolidge signing the income tax bill which established the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ; Andrew Mellon is the third figure from the right.

The first incarnation of the Tax Court was the " U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ", established by Congress in the Revenue Act of 1924 ( also known as the Mellon tax bill ) in order to address the increasing complexity of tax-related litigation.

The bill passed was ruled unconstitutional by the New York State Court of Appeals ( see People v. LaValle ), as the law stipulated that if jurors were deadlocked between sentences of life without parole and execution, the court would sentence the defendant to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after serving 20 to 25 years.

The Tax Court decision and a similar earlier finding by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenges a year-old I.R.S. ruling on the subject.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

In the 1995 case State of Idaho v. Howry before the Idaho Court of Appeals, the Court commented on the impact of the Alford guilty plea on later sentencing.

This means that the Justice keeps his or her title, and may serve by assignment on panels of the U. S. Courts of Appeals.

Both O ' Connor and Souter occasionally serve on panels of the Courts of Appeals of various circuits.

* Law Reform Commission of Ireland Consultation Paper on Prosecution Appeals Brought on Indictment

Disbarment by the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed on August 19, 1988.

The Department of Justice appealed her decision and requested a stay of her injunction, which Phillips denied but which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted on October 20

In 2011, while waiting for certification, several service members were discharged under DADT at their own insistence, until July 6 when a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals re-instated Judge Phillips ' injunction barring further enforcement of the U. S. military's ban on openly gay service members.

* Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court

In February 1991, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, but voided Bakker's 45-year sentence, as well as the $ 500, 000 fine, and ordered that a new sentencing hearing be held.

" He proved correct ; the verdict and sentence were reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on July 22, 1908.

The judiciary is modeled on the French system, with a High Constitutional Court, High Court of Justice, Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, criminal tribunals, and tribunals of first instance.

* The President appoints, on the advice of the Government, the Senior Professors and chairman of the council of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies ; the governor of the Central Bank of Ireland ; the members of the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal ; the Ombudsman ; and the members of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission.

* Appeals always go to the Provincial Court of Appeal first, and then on to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Appeals are frequently based on a claim that the trial judge or jury did not allow or appreciate all the facts ; if that claim is successful the appeal judges will often order a trial " de novo ".

Less than a month after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the redesignation of Kach and Kahane Chai as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Kahane Net sent out a fundraising appeal, crossing out with a black marker the URL www. kahane. org printed on the envelope.

In that case, the California Court of Appeals held " it would be obnoxious to the interests of the state and contrary to public policy and sound morality to allow an employer to discharge an employee, whether the employment be for a designated or unspecified duration, on the ground that the employee declined to commit perjury, an act specifically enjoined by statute.