judicial conference

noun

Law.

1. a conference of judges held to discuss improvements in methods or judicial procedure through court rules or otherwise.

Example Sentences

The chief justice is “the leader in some sense, but you cannot fire people if they don’t follow you,” he said at a judicial conference in June.

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Newby declined multiple interview requests from ProPublica and even had a reporter escorted out of a judicial conference to avoid questions.

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And he did it through his counselor, Robert Dow, who was speaking at the 6th Circuit Judicial Conference this week.

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Reading the tea leaves from cryptic Supreme Court orders can be perilous business because the justices are not bound by the questions they ask at oral argument, the offhand comments they make at a judicial conference, or even their monumental “shadow docket” rulings on emergency petitions that have become all too common.

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There is a stark contrast between the response of Chief Justice Roberts, who said something about how it’s not appropriate to default to impeachment if you don’t like a judicial decision, and what Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said at the 1st Circuit Circuit judicial conference, where she gave a speech about district court judges, and invoked district court judges from the Civil Rights era and the courageousness and bravery of those judges.

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