That ruling, which a judge enforced in late June, was a high-water mark for transgender rights because it gave "controlling weight" to the Obama administration's interpretation of Title IX, the law that bars federally funded schools from discriminating against students on account of race, sex and other protected categories.
He wants the Constitution, too, as our judges enforce it, to yield to the supremacy of the president.
He may wish to exclude irrelevant arguments; but the Federal Rules of Evidence, which judges use to rule bits of testimony admissible or otherwise, do not necessarily apply in an impeachment trial.In short, the usual legal guidelines that judges enforce do not exist: the chief justice is about to take on a role in which he will be neither chief nor particularly judicial.
And are our old structures for judging and enforcing these protections remotely up to the job?
And judges are enforcing a dozen other agreements regarding funding for state programs.
The MPA prevents judges from enforcing injunctions on genetically modified seeds even if they are deemed unsafe.
In America, meanwhile, Citigroup, Wachovia and Wells Fargo spent the weekend in a circus of court hearings, as Citigroup tried to get a state judge to enforce its F.D.I.C.-approved merger agreement with Wachovia — while Wells Fargo and Wachovia sought out other judges, both state and federal, to overrule him, and allow the Wells Fargo offer to proceed.
Lawmakers can also file a lawsuit asking a judge to enforce it.
Imprisonment is one sanction available to a judge to enforce a court order.
The motion, filed in Supreme Court in Manhattan, requests a judge to enforce the 1981 decree by requiring the city to come up with more beds.
