Justice Roger Burdick to retire from Idaho Supreme Court By: IBR Staff March 15, 2021 Comments Off on Justice Roger Burdick to retire from Idaho Supreme Court
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Justice Roger Burdick will retire from the Idaho Supreme Court on June 30, 2021, after a 47-year career that touched almost every part of the court system. He has worked as a defense attorney, prosecutor, magistrate judge, district judge and eventually led the state’s highest court as chief justice. For two years he presided over the Snake River Basin Adjudication, the multi-decade effort to confirm and clarify individual water rights across most of Idaho.
What to Expect From the New Supreme Court Term Posted On January 12, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to take on major cases in the copyright, patent, and employment law spaces, with questions about how the newly enlarged conservative wing will weigh in on these issues. Arguments have already been held in a case involving whether Google’s Android platform illegally infringed software code developed by Oracle. Later in the year, the court will consider whether changes made to patent law designed to combat patent trolls are constitutional or not.
The Supreme Court only hears and decides a small number of cases each year, roughly one out of every 60 or 70 cases that are appealed to the court. Consequently, Supreme Court decisions carry extraordinary weight because they represent the final and unappealable outcome of a given legal issue. Court decisions in the intellectual
Another Yolo court commissioner retires
Yolo Superior Court officials announced last week the retirement of Commissioner J. Kent O’Mara, effective Saturday, Dec. 19.
O’Mara served the court in multiple positions over the past 13 years, including referee and court commissioner. He graduated from the University of San Fernando Valley College of Law and, after graduation, worked for a law firm performing civil litigation in state and federal courts.
After moving to Northern California in 1983, O’Mara had his own law firm in El Dorado County for 25 years before his hiring by the Yolo Superior Court. He was appointed referee in June 2009 and elevated to commissioner in June 2015, handling a variety of high-volume calendars including traffic, unlawful detainers and small claims, as well as criminal arraignments. O’Mara also played an active role in the civil settlement program.
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The country has never been more divided politically, and whether they’re strongly in favor of or adamantly opposed to President Trump’s policies, people have been inspired to go to law school to somehow “save America.”
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