Alicia Bannon – Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law: “In an earlier report, the Brennan Center analyzed national court data on vacancies and caseload in order to document the burden that judicial vacancies create. In this study we dig deeper, analyzing the experiences of 10 districts that currently have judicial vacancies… Continue Reading
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Trends in State Courts 2014
“Trends in State Courts 2014 focuses on what courts can do, and are doing, to serve the needs of society’s most vulnerable groups: juveniles and the elderly. Articles in two special sections focus on many aspects of juvenile justice and elder issues, such as the Models for Change Juvenile Justice Initiative funded by the John D.… Continue Reading
The Good Society newest issues now open access : Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration
Joshua A. Miller – “The new issue (vol. 23, no. 1) is devoted to a single symposium on the intersection of mass incarceration and democracy. It’s available on Project MUSE for institutional subscribers, and on JSTOR, where all the articles will be open access for the next two months Albert Dzur introduces the issue in “Penal Democracy.” Many of the… Continue Reading
New Data on Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Court
“Records just obtained under the Freedom of Information Act offer new insights about government policies governing the handling of the recent surge of unaccompanied children seeking entry into the U.S. As of the end of June 2014, the more than 100,000 case records obtained and analyzed by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that… Continue Reading
Juvenile Cases Help Push Immigration Court Backlog to New High
“As of the end of June 2014, the number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts has climbed to an all time high of 375,503 — an increase of more than 50,000 since the start of FY 2013 — according to very timely government enforcement data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)… Continue Reading
Improvements Coming to PACER and CM/ECF
News release: “Beginning August 11, you may notice some changes on the PACER website. These changes will include the opportunity to upgrade your PACER account. NOTE: This upgrade is not mandatory. Your current PACER account will still function normally. However, you will need to upgrade your account in order to perform any maintenance functions outside… Continue Reading
Impacts of the Children’s Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later
Fencing Out Knowledge – Impacts of the Children’s Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later, American Library Association, Policy Brief No. 5, June 2014. “What do Hotmail, YouTube, Google Docs, Facebook, and National Geographic have in common? They offer content and services that millions of Americans use every day to communicate, share content, and seek information. They also… Continue Reading
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
SCOTUSBlog – Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. “Linked with: Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell Autocam Corp. v. Burwell Docket No. Op. Below Argument Opinion Vote Author Term 13-354 10th Cir. Mar 25, 2014 Tr. Jun 30, 2014 5-4 Alito OT 2013 Holding: As applied to closely held corporations, the regulations promulgated by the… Continue Reading
EPIC – Supreme Court Rejects Google’s Street View Appeal
“The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition from Google to reverse the decision in the Google Street View case. In Joffe v. Google, Internet users sued Google for intercepting private communications, including passwords, medical records, and financial information, of millions of users across the country. EPIC filed a friend of the court brief in support of Internet users, arguing that Wi-Fi communications are not… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Comforting Witnesses, Discomforting Due Process
Via LLRX.com – Comforting Witnesses, Discomforting Due Process “Many of us are aware of, and have had contact with various types of therapy dogs, in places that range from the workplace to our public transportation systems. But we may not be aware of the growing use and integration into the legal system of therapeutic “comfort dogs”… Continue Reading
Juries and Prior Convictions: Managing the Demise of the Prior Conviction Exception to Apprendi
King, Nancy J., Juries and Prior Convictions: Managing the Demise of the Prior Conviction Exception to Apprendi (June 1, 2014). Southern Methodist University Law Review, Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2459682 “This essay offers a menu of procedural alternatives for coping with the potential, some would say inevitable, abandonment of the prior conviction exception to… Continue Reading
ODNI and DOJ – Declassification of Renewal of Collection Under Section 501 of FISA
“On March 28, 2014, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) declassified and disclosed publically that the U.S. government had filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and that, on March 28, 2014, the FISC renewed that authority. The DNI also announced… Continue Reading
