TRAC: “The latest available data from the federal courts show that in June of this year there were 860 new SSID Title XVI lawsuits filed, most under US Code Title 45 Section 405 which allows for judicial review when Social Security supplemental security income (SSI) benefits are denied. The number of filings for each of… Continue Reading
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Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future
CRS – Climate Change and Existing Law: A Survey of Legal Issues Past, Present, and Future, Robert Meltz, Legislative Attorney, July 2, 2012 “Efforts to mitigate climate change that is, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissionshave spawned a host of legal issues. The Supreme Court resolved a big one in 2007 the Clean Air… Continue Reading
TRAC – Immigration Backlog and Wait Times Reach New Highs
“The number of cases awaiting resolution before the Immigration Courts keeps rising, along with the average time these pending cases have been waiting. At the end of June 2012 the backlog reached a new all-time high of 314,147. According to the very latest data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), that… Continue Reading
Paper – Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story
Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story by Michael A. Carrier via SSRN “Copyright has an innovation problem. Judicial decisions, private enforcement, and public dialogue ignore innovation and overemphasize the harms of copyright infringement. Just to pick one example, piracy, theft, and rogue websites were the focus of debate in connection with the PROTECT IP Act… Continue Reading
TRAC: Consumer Credit Lawsuits Up 194% from Five Years Ago
Consumer Credit Civil Filings for May 2012: “The latest available data from the federal courts show that in May of this year there were 890 new consumer credit lawsuits filed, most under the Fair Debt Enforcement Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act. According to the case-by-case civil enforcement information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access… Continue Reading
CRS – Health Care: Constitutional Rights and Legislative Powers
Health Care: Constitutional Rights and Legislative Powers. Kathleen S. Swendiman, Legislative Attorney, July 9, 2012 “The health care reform debate raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and quality of health care. Underlying these policy considerations are issues regarding the status of health care as a constitutional or legal right. This… Continue Reading
Cornel LII – Supreme Court 2011-2012 Term Highlights
Supreme Court 2011-2012 Term Highlights, Prepared by Lilian M. Loh. Edited by Charlotte Schneider. Introduction Federal Preemption State Immigration Enforcement Health Care: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act First Amendment: Freedom of Expression Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure Fifth Amendment: Due Process Sixth Amendment: Assistance of Counsel Eighth Amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment Antiterrorism and… Continue Reading
N.J. Supreme Court – Records related to cases at public law school clinics are not subject to Open Public Records Act
Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Schmidt: “The New Jersey State Supreme Court has held that the state’s open-records law does not require a Rutgers University legal clinic to relinquish client files, handing a major victory to higher-education associations, which warned that an inability to maintain attorney-client privilege would badly damage the nation’s public law schools.… Continue Reading
ACA: A Brief Overview of the Law, Implementation, and Legal Challenges
CRS – ACA: A Brief Overview of the Law, Implementation, and Legal Challenges, July 3, 2012 “On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court issued its decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, finding that the individual mandate is a constitutional exercise of Congresss authority to levy taxes. However, the Court held that it… Continue Reading
EPIC – 2011 Report: Wiretap Authorizations Decrease
“According to the 2011 Wiretap Report, released by the Administrative Office of the US Courts, federal and state applications for wiretap orders dropped 14 percent in 2011, compared to the number reported in 2010. The reduction in wiretaps resulted primarily from a drop in applications for intercepts in narcotics offenses. In 2011, a total of… Continue Reading
Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition. Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, and Elizabeth C. Wiggins. Federal Judicial Center, 2012 “ESI currently includes e-mail messages, word processing files, web pages, and databases created and stored on computers, magnetic disks (such as computer hard drives), optical disks (such as DVDs… Continue Reading
A Visual Guide to NFIB v. Sebelius
Follow up to The Health Care Law – Government Resources, Commentary and Analysis, see A Visual Guide to NFIB v. Sebelius: Competing Commerce Clause Opinion Lines 1789-2012, Colin P. Starger, University of Baltimore School of Law, June 30, 2012 – Download via SSRN. Though Chief Justice Roberts ultimately provided the fifth vote upholding the Affordable… Continue Reading
