* Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Panama Canal Commission case — archived

What had started as a local issue became national news when the Minuteman Project anti-illegal immigration group joined the local groups opposing the day laborers and watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the town and county to block the center's construction.

In March 2009, the New York Post wrote that the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained emails sent by Pelosi's staff which requested that the United States Air Force ( USAF ) provide specific aircraft – a Boeing 757 – for Pelosi to use for taxpayer-funded travel.

On 28 March 2003, Judicial Watch filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Defense Department Inspector General, the Office of the Homeland Security Inspector General, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the matter of Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing.

* Judicial Watch legal complaint March 28, 2003

Judicial Watch represented her in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary's former aides, Stephanopoulos and Carville.

In 2002, Judicial Watch filed suit against Thompson for allegedly artificially inflating the stock price in order to illegally increase his earnings in the sale of stock.

A separate lawsuit on the matter brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, has lingered on for years and was dismissed by a federal judge in 2010.

Separately from the Independent Counsel investigation, Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, engaged in long-running litigation over the White House personnel file controversy.

Judicial Watch founder and Clintons antagonist suprême Larry Klayman attracted enough attention with the case to have the recurring Larry Claypool character modeled after him on the television series The West Wing.

As late as January 2000, Judicial Watch was filing affidavits in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under Judge Royce C. Lamberth related to the case.

) Judicial Watch also said they had five sources who claimed Livingstone had been hired by and worked under the First Lady, and also discovered some photographs of Livingstone in the vicinity of the First Lady ( but not talking with him ).

In December 2002 Judicial Watch obtained a ruling from Judge Lamberth that recently uncovered White House e-mails be searched for possible evidence in the lawsuit.

" Klayman and Judicial Watch had a severe falling out in 2003, however, and several years went by with little or nothing happening in the lawsuit.

However, in May 2010, Judicial Watch filed an appeal of the dismissal with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the case appears to still be active.

* Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch ;

* Judicial Watch

Logo of Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch is an organization that describes itself as " a conservative, non-partisan American educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

" According to its mission statement, Judicial Watch " advocates high standards of ethics and morality in America's public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people.

Founded by conservative attorney Larry Klayman in 1994, Judicial Watch came to public attention after filing 18 lawsuits against the administration of Democratic U. S. President Bill Clinton and figures in the Clinton administration.

This led Clinton administration officials to accuse Judicial Watch of " abusing the judicial system for partisan ends.

" According to Judicial Watch, Clinton and top Congressional Democrats encouraged the IRS to audit them and say that an IRS agent asked them, " What do you expect when you sue the President?

However, in July 2003 Judicial Watch joined the environmental organization the Sierra Club in suing the George W. Bush administration for access to minutes of Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force.

In 2006 Klayman sued Judicial Watch and its president Tom Fitton.

" After having publicly lamented that the poor quality of the Supreme Court prevented the abrogation of appeals, in the late 1930s he attacked the Privy Council ’ s interpretation of the BNA Act and demanded the end of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

The National Judicial Council consists of 11 members elected by the Croatian Parliament from among notable judges, attorneys-at-law and university professors of law.

The university replied that the White House had no involvement with the branding of the event, and that the slogan -- which Judicial Watch described as " an obvious play on a popular Obama presidential campaign theme " -- was devised by a university student.

In March 2002, over 360, 000 university or college graduates took part in a two-day State Judicial Exam ( SJE ).

A " Judicial Officer " who is competent to serve process in the state of origin is permitted to send request for service directly to the " Central Authority " of the state where service is to be made.

The Judicial Committee reviewed the historical record and concluded that in 1870, all schools in Manitoba were funded by the religious groups which ran them, and not by any system of public taxation.

Members of the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords ( or " Law Lords ") and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have never worn court dress at all ( although advocates appearing before them do ).

On December 27, 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court agreed unanimously with Romney's repeated assertion that Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution explicitly and unambiguously requires that the Massachusetts Legislature take a final vote on any and all voter initiatives placed before them, which includes the marriage amendment.

* December 27, 2006: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts legislators have a constitutional obligation to vote on all voter initiatives before them before the end of any joint session.

In 1871 Collier was appointed by Gladstone one of four new judges upon the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, although it was expressly provided by the act creating these offices that none of them should be filled by a law-officer of the Crown.

All judges are appointed by the National Judicial Council and relieves them of judicial duty, as well as decides on their disciplinary responsibility.

On 30 May 2008 the judges of the Constitutional Court issued a statement reporting that they had referred Cape Judge President Judge John Hlophe to the Judicial Service Commission as a result of what they described in their statement as an approach to certain of them "... in an improper attempt to influence this Court's pending judgement in one or more cases ".

BCS ( Judicial: Assistant Judge ( Note, following the separation of Judiciary from Executive organ of the Government since 2007 BCS Judicial officers are enjoying a separate service denomination that entails them to be known as belonging to newly established ' Bangladesh Judicial Service '.

The Advisory Committees propose rules, subject them to public comment, and then submit them to the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which in turn submits them to the Judicial Conference, which recommends them to the Supreme Court for approval.

After public comment, the draft rules are submitted to the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, which in turn submits them to the Judicial Conference, which finally recommends them to the Supreme Court for approval.

A careful student has suggested that `` In any new revision ( of the Judicial Code ) the legislators would do well to remember that the allocation of power to the federal courts should be limited to those matters in which their expertise in federal law might be used, leaving to the state judiciaries the primary obligation of pronouncing state law ''.

Because the Spending Clause does not give any power to the Executive Branch or the Judicial Branch, officials of agencies in the Executive Branch may not enter into agreements tolling the statute of limitations, and courts may not toll the statute of limitations under equitable tolling principles in claims against the United States.

The Council reviews all decisions of law made by bishops The Judicial Council cannot create any legislation ; it can only interpret existing legislation.

Article 23. 4 of the Judicial Power Organization Act ( LOPJ ), enacted on 1 July 1985, establishes that Spanish courts have jurisdiction over crimes committed by Spaniards or foreign citizens outside Spain when such crimes can be described according to Spanish criminal law as genocide, terrorism, or some other, as well as any other crime that, according to international treaties or conventions, must be prosecuted in Spain.

* Judicial review: Article 98 provides that the constitution takes precedence over any " law, ordinance, imperial rescript or other act of government " that offends against its provisions.

* To appoint the judges of the Appeals court, the Land courts, the Courts of First Instance, the Judges of Instruction, the Peace Courts and their deputies, the Administrative-Tax Court and the judges of any other judicial courts created by law, according to the provisions of the Law on Judicial Career.

The Judicial Council cannot create any legislation ; it can only interpret existing legislation.

Although not himself fluent in any foreign language, Ito is regarded as an expert in the area of the use of spoken-language interpreters in courtroom proceedings and regularly teaches at the Judicial College of California and Chapman University School of Law.

* Disciplinary proceedings against government officials who are paid on any Directorate or Directorate ( Judicial / Legal Group ) Pay Scale and those above point 27 on the Master Pay Scale

* In the event of a vacancy in the office of Chief Justice, or in the event of the Chief Justice being unable to perform his duties due to absence, illness, or any other cause, the President may, on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission, following consultation by it with the appropriate Cabinet Minister, appoint another person ( who must be qualified for appointment as a judge ) to act in that capacity.

Section 133 empowers the Judicial Service Commission to appoint Magistrates, a central agricultural tribunal ( to administer the Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Act ), and any other judicial offices that may be established by Parliament.

Offices that are explicitly excluded from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission include judges, offices for which the Constitutional Offices Commission or the Disciplined Services Commission are responsible, offices which come under the jurisdiction of the Judicial Service Commission or of any body prescribed by Parliament, military offices, and all offices referred to in the Constitution, except for the Secretary to the House of Representatives and the Secretary to the Senate.

The Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability investigates all reports of abuses and makes recommendations to the Supreme Court on any actions that may need to occur.

A party may only propound thirty-five written interrogatories on any other single party, and no " subparts, or a compound, conjunctive, or disjunctive question " may be included in an interrogatory ; however, " form interrogatories " which have been approved by the state Judicial Council do not count toward this limit.

In this view, separation of powers means that the Judiciary alone holds all powers relative to the Judicial function, and that the Legislative and Executive branches may not interfere in any aspect of the Judicial branch.

In an unprecedented move, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and the Canadian Judicial Council issued a statement that Toews's proposal would " compromise the independence of the Advisory Committees ", and called for the minister to consult with judicial and legal representatives before making any changes.

In 1983 he was reprimanded by the Canadian Judicial Council for this activism, even though his comments " did not related to any existing statute or court decision ".

* Judicial interpretation of " held sacred " and " any religion " could render the Act unenforceable.

The Maryland Constitution clearly states that " the Legislative, Executive and Judicial powers of Government ought to be forever separate and distinct from each other ; and no person exercising the functions of one of said Departments shall assume or discharge the duties of any other.

: Judicial power includes the duty of courts of justice to settle actual controversies involving rights which are legally demandable and enforceable, and to determine whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part of any branch or instrumentality of the government.