Sentence examples for senior justice from inspiring English sources

In the end, Justice Stevens, as the senior justice in the majority, assigned the opinion for the court to Justice Kennedy.

With just weeks remaining before her nine-year tenure was to end, Arroyo bypassed seniority and appointed Corona, then a senior justice, to the office of Chief Justice.

He became the senior justice in 1994 with the retirement of Justice Harry A. Blackmun.

What seniority means here, and by the way I am not the most senior justice even though I am the oldest, well, almost everything at the court is done by seniority.

"I am now the most senior justice when we divide 5-4 withethe usual suspects," she said.

I asked Justice Stevens whether he, as the senior justice among the four dissenters, would have assigned the 2009 dissent.

A law passed in March allows Sissi to appoint judges, and he recently replaced two senior justices with pro-government ones, activists said.

These senior justices might also help decide which of the thousands of petitions the court receives each year should be fully considered, vote on procedural rulemaking, and perhaps sit on occasional cases presented to lower circuit courts.

The documents, written by a senior justices' clerk in the London regional office of Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), were released by the Ministry of Justice following a freedom of information request from the Guardian.

Behind the scenes at the UK's top court: Joshua Rozenberg talks to staff, officials and the court's most senior justices.

Surely, it is an encouraging sign that on February 2, 2016 the senior justices also announced that the curative petition would be heard by a full bench of five justices, led by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.