News release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today approved a pilot project to evaluate the effect of cameras in federal district courtrooms and the public release of digital video recordings of some civil proceedings. The pilot, which will be national in scope, will last up to three years. It will evaluate the effect of cameras in district court courtrooms, video recordings of proceedings, and publication of such video recordings. Details of the development and implementation of the pilot will be determined by the Conferences Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM).
Courts that participate in the pilot will, if necessary, amend their local rules (providing adequate public notice and opportunity to comment) to provide an exception for judges participating in the pilot project. Participation in the pilot will be at the trial judges discretion. Under the pilot, participating courts will record proceedings. Recordings by other entities or persons will not be allowed. Recording of members of a jury will not be permitted, and parties in a trial must consent to participating in the pilot.”
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Daily Archives: September 14, 2010
Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD – Updated: September 2010
News release: “In July 2010, the unemployment rate for the OECD area was steady at 8.5%, unchanged from the previous month and down slightly from the 8.6% level recorded in May. The general pattern of broad stability holds in most OECD countries. In August 2010 however, the unemployment rates increased slightly (by 0.1 percentage point)… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports: Military Training, Nuclear Waste, Public Transportation
Military Training: DOD Continues to Improve Its Report on the Sustainability of Training Ranges, GAO-10-977R, September 14, 2010 Nuclear Waste: Actions Needed to Address Persistent Concerns with Efforts to Close Underground Radioactive Waste Tanks at DOE’s Savannah River Site, GAO-10-816, September 14, 2010 Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and… Continue Reading
Student Loan Default Rates Increase
News release: ” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that the FY 2008 national cohort default rate is 7.0 percent, up from the FY 2007 rate of 6.7 percent. The default rates increased from 5.9 to 6 percent for public institutions, from 3.7 to 4 percent for private institutions, and from 11 to… Continue Reading
SBA: Global Entrepreneurship and the United States
Global Entrepreneurship and the United States, September 2010 “This paper looks at the performance of the United States on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), which captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship. The index builds on and improves earlier measures by capturing quantitative and qualitative aspects of entrepreneurship. It measures entrepreneurial performance in 71… Continue Reading
Statistical Evidence on the Gender Gap in Law Firm Partner Compensation
Statistical Evidence on the Gender Gap in Law Firm Partner Compensation, Marina Angel, Eun-Young Whang, Rajiv D. Banker, Joseph Lopez, September 9, 2010 Our study compiled the largest research sample on the gender gap in compensation at the 200 largest law firms by combining two large databases to examine why women partners are compensated less:… Continue Reading
New Online Map with State Legislative Links From Library of Congress
State Legislature Websites: Via the THOMAS site, this graphical map provides mouse-over and text based links to State Legislature Websites For U.S. States and Territories, as well as key links to Other State Legislative Information. Continue Reading
Report Finds Homegrown Terrorism Presents Key Challenge for the United States
“…the Bipartisan Policy Centers (BPC) National Security Preparedness Group (NSPG) released a report, Assessing the Terrorist Threat, which details how the terrorist threat currently facing the United States has grown more complex and diverse since 2001. Under the leadership of former 9/11 Commission Chair and Vice Chair Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, NSPG members Peter… Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Americans Spending More Time Following the News
Americans Spending More Time Following the News – Ideological News Sources: Who Watches and Why, September 12, 2010 “There are many more ways to get the news these days, and as a consequence Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role… Continue Reading
