Sentence examples for bench justice from inspiring English sources

In her statement from the bench, Justice Ginsburg said the firefighters who sued "understandably attract the court's empathy".

In his statement from the bench, Justice Scalia said that the prisoners to be released "are just 46,000 happy-go-lucky felons fortunate enough to be selected".

While on the bench, Justice Wallach was an adjunct professor at Fordham University, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Hofstra, the National College of the Judiciary in Reno, Nev., the University of Wyoming and Wadham College at Oxford.

In a dissenting opinion that she took the unusual step of reading from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that "nothing in history, precedent, or plain English warrants the anemic construction of the term 'prevailing party' the court today imposes".

During his time on the bench, Justice Kennedy helped limit the scope of the death penalty.

According to CBC News, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Brian Burrows anonymized the accused while convicting him of child luring a decision he made on his own accord.

Once on the bench, justices regularly show disconcerting independence of mind.

Cockburn's co-judges were Sir John Mellor and Sir Robert Lush, both experienced Queen's Bench justices.

Of the nine justices on the bench, Chief Justice John Roberts' vote was decisive in the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in favour of the law.

— STUART TAYLOR Jr., Newsweek contributor and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution There will be no dearth of brains, legal learning or technical skills among the Supreme Court justices remaining on the bench after Justice John Paul Stevens retires.

The Supreme Court now has two superb new members on its bench, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito.