judicial-tenure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1085 Scott Erik Stafne v. Thomas S. Zilly, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 article-iii civil-rights due-process good-behaviour-tenure judicial-independence judicial-tenure jurisdictional-challenge separation-of-powers standing Whether the challenge that a jurist is not an Article III judge because she or he does not have 'good behaviour' tenure is a jurisdictional one which …
18-9559 Aracelis N. Ayala v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii-judges civil-rights criminal-defendants criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-amendment individualized-determination judicial-tenure presumption revised-organic-act shackling shackling-policy virgin-islands-court whether a blanket policy of shackling criminal defendants without an individualized determination of need violates due process?
18-9218 Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena v. United States Third Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii district-court due-process judicial-appointment judicial-appointments judicial-tenure non-Article-III-courts non-Article-III-judges presidential-appointment revised-organic-act separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation tenure Virgin-Islands Can non-Article III judges serve indefinitely?