“Federal criminal prosecutions totaled 13,916 for the month of September according to the most recent data released by the Department of Justice. This figure is up 6 percent from the previous month, and is down less than one percent from a year ago. TRAC offers free reports on program categories such as immigration, drugs and… Continue Reading
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Verizon Files Appeal in Federal Court Regarding FCC Net Neutrality Order
News release: “Verizon Communications on Thursday (Jan. 20) filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s Report and Order on rules dealing with the issue of net neutrality…”Today’s filing is the result of a careful review of the FCC’s order. We are… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Affirms Right to Informational Privacy, But Says Privacy Act Safeguards Sufficient for NASA Records
EPIC: “The Supreme Court has issued a decision in NASA v. Nelson, a case brought by NASA scientists who argued that the government’s invasive background checks violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court found amicus brief , cosigned by 27 technical experts and legal scholars, which highlighted problems with the Privacy Act, including the “routine use”… Continue Reading
EPIC Uses FOIA to Obtain TSA documents on Airport Screening Procurement Specifications
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, this News release: “A federal district court has granted the Department of Homeland Security’s motion to conclude one of EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. EPIC was seeking more than 2,000 images generated by airport body scanners held by the… Continue Reading
Obituary: Arizona Federal Judge, John Roll, 63
Via WSJ Law Blog, Obituary: Arizona Federal Judge, John Roll, 63 “The tragic shooting in Tucson Saturday morning took the life of six people, among them John McCarthy Roll, the chief judge of the District of Arizona. Judge Roll was 63. Click here for my and Nathan Koppels story on Roll in the WSJ; here… Continue Reading
Google Wins Injunction in Cloud Computing Bid Protest Against Interior
Follow up to Google Files Bid Protest Against Dept. of Interior Over Hosted Email and Collaboration Services, news that Google wins: Interior forbidden to award noncompetitive contract to Microsoft – “U.S. Federal Claims Court Judge Susan Braden ruled on Jan. 3 that negotiations for a sole source contract with Microsoft commenced many months prior to… Continue Reading
California Supreme Court Affirms Warrantless Search of Suspects Cell Phone Text Messages
PEOPLE v. DIAZ, Criminal Appeal, Start Date: 09/09/2008. Opinion issued – Petition for review after the Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment of conviction of a criminal offense. This case presents the following issues: (1) Was defendant’s cell phone an item “immediately associated with the person of the arrestee” within the meaning of United States… Continue Reading
Justice Scalia's Comments on equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
California Lawyer, January 2011 – Legally Speaking, The Originalist – Question: ‘In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don’t think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we’ve gone off in error… Continue Reading
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. and Three Subsidiaries Agree to Pay $92 Million to Resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Investigation
News release: “Alcatel-Lucent S.A. and three of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay a combined $92 million penalty to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation into the worldwide sales practices of Alcatel S.A. prior to its 2006 merger with Lucent Technologies Inc., the Department of Justice announced. As part of the agreed resolution,… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com: Juror Behavior in the Information Age
Via LLRX.com – Juror Behavior in the Information Age: Ken Strutin focuses on the impact of social media on jurors who increasingly try to stay connected to work and home while performing their civic duty, and the resulting impact of the power of individual jurors to virtualize a trial by going online. His article collects… Continue Reading
Oral Argument Set in EPIC Lawsuit to Suspend Airport Body Scanners
“The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has scheduled oral argument in EPIC’s case, No. 10-1157, against the Department of Homeland Security. The court set a March 10, 2011 date for the parties to present oral argument before the Court. EPIC filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security to… Continue Reading
Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Third Edition. Barbara J. Rothstein; Thomas E. Willging, 2010, 55 pages “This pocket guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class action cases filed in or removed to federal courts as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005… Continue Reading
