E-Discovery Update: Revisiting ESI Agreements and Court Orders – Conrad J. Jacoby focuses on the new requirement that litigants must meet early in a dispute to discuss the scope of discovery work to reach agreement on how best to proceed with the discovery of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI). What happens, though, when fundamental assumptions used to reach agreement at that early stage in the case turn out to be incorrect?
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Daily Archives: February 15, 2009
Backgrounder, Database and Executive Order: Closing Guantanamo
Closing Guantanamo, Greg Bruno, Staff Writer, February 12, 2009. Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The Guantanamo Inmates: Who Are They? The Guantanamo Inmates: How to Try Them The Guantanamo Inmates: Where to Send Them Constitutional and Other Considerations See also The Guantánamo Docket – The Detainees: “Of the 779 people who have been detained at… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG: Removals Involving Illegal Alien Parents of United States Citizen Children
OIG-09-15 – Removals Involving Illegal Alien Parents of United States Citizen Children (PDF, 23 pages): “This report addresses the number of instances over the past 10 years in which the illegal alien parent of a United States citizen child was removed from the country. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant… Continue Reading
DHS OIG – Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act
Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56), Special Report, February 2009, Office of the Inspector General. Continue Reading
SEC Actions During Turmoil in Credit Markets
“The mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. During the current turmoil in the credit markets, the SEC has worked closely with the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and other regulators in the U.S. and around the world to… Continue Reading
OMB Watch Report – The Bush Legacy
“The Bush Legacy, crafted by freelance writer and author Osha Gray Davidson, shows that attacks on a variety of common-sense regulations over the past eight years have taken a great toll on the United States and uses clear examples to document a wide range of activities, much of which occurred behind the scenes, away from… Continue Reading
Global Employment Trends January 2009
EU: Unemployment, working poor and vulnerable employment to increase dramatically due to global economic crisis. Global Employment Trends January 2009, International Labour Organization: “The global financial crisis has triggered a serious slowdown in world economic growth including recession in the largest industrialized countries. Enterprises have stopped hiring and many are laying off workers in considerable… Continue Reading
Stimulus Bill Includes Clear Directive on Executive Compensation
Follow up to February 4, 2009 posting, Treasury Announces New Restrictions On Executive Compensation , from ProPublica, Stimulus Bill Limits TARP Exec Pay: “…tucked into the 1,071-page bill [H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] is a twelve-page section that goes much further than any limits imposed by the Bush administration or… Continue Reading
ProPublica – The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending by Michael Grabell and Christopher Weaver, ProPublica: “The appropriations section of the bill details spending in excess of $311 billion for programs ranging from Pell grants for college students to clean water in central Utah to nearly $100 billion in new transportation and infrastructure projects. Heres our… Continue Reading
Historical Version of Bush Presidential Website
Welcome to the White House, President George W. Bush: “This is historical material, “frozen in time.” The web site is no longer updated and links to external web sites and some internal pages will not work.” [Note: this site is a useful resource for research associated with primary government documents generated during thetwo terms of… Continue Reading
New GAO Report: Aviation Security – Federal Air Marshal Service
Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Has Taken Actions to Fulfill Its Core Mission and Address Workforce Issues, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Workforce Survey, GAO-09-273, January 14, 2009. “Because the number of air marshals is less than the number of daily flights, FAMSs operational approach is to assign air marshals to selected… Continue Reading
FTC Staff Revises Online Behavioral Advertising Principles
News release: “Federal Trade Commission staff…issued a report describing its ongoing examination of online behavioral advertising and setting forth revisions to proposed principles to govern self-regulatory efforts in this area. The key issue concerns how online advertisers can best protect consumers privacy while collecting information about their online activities…The report discusses the potential benefits of… Continue Reading
