Air Ambulance: Effects of Industry Changes on Services Are Unclear, GAO-10-907, September 30, 2010 Department of Homeland Security: Progress Made in Implementation and Transformation of Management Functions, but More Work Remains, GAO-10-911T, September 30, 2010 Military Personnel: Observations on the Use and Effects of the National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Act of 2008, GAO-10-1014R,… Continue Reading
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BJS: State Public Defender Programs, 2007
State Public Defender Programs, 2007, Donald J. Farole, Jr. Ph.D., Lynn Langton, September 16, 2010. NCJ 228229 “Examines the provision of public defender services in the 22 states that had an entirely state-funded and state-administered indigent defense program in 2007. The report presents an overview of state public defender programs in the context of public… Continue Reading
Anniversary Marks Creation of U.S. Federal Court System
News release: “September 24 marks the anniversary of a groundbreaking American invention a federal court system separate from the individual state courts. The Judiciary Act of 1789 was one of the first pieces of legislation enacted by the newly formed U.S. Congress. The law created a dual court system federal and state … Continue Reading
Judiciary Approves Pilot Project for Cameras in District Courts
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… Continue Reading
EPIC: Surveillance Court Seeks Public Comments on Proposed Rules
“The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes a special court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), to undertake electronic surveillance in the United States for foreign intelligence information. The FISC is now seeking public comments concerning its procedures. Comments must received by Monday, October 4, 2010. EPIC previously submitted an amicus brief regarding FISA authority… Continue Reading
The Liberal Tradition of the Supreme Court Clerkship: Its Rise, Fall, and Reincarnation?
The Liberal Tradition of the Supreme Court Clerkship: Its Rise, Fall, and Reincarnation? William E. Nelson, Harvey Rishikof, I. Scott Messinger, and Michael Jo. 62 Vand.L.Rev. 1749 “Our main goal in this article is to present what we believe to be our key insightthat the future direction of the Court will be determined not only… Continue Reading
EPIC Challenge to Airport Body Scanner Program Moves Forward in Federal Court
Follow up to previous postings on government implementation of whole body scanning technology at airports, via EPIC: “The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has set a briefing schedule for EPIC v. DHS, No. 10-1157, EPIC’s challenge to the airport body scanner program. EPIC has alleged that that the Department… Continue Reading
Asylum Denial Rate Reaches All Time Low: FY 2010 Results, a Twenty-Five Year Perspective
“Very timely Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to a new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%)… Continue Reading
National Security Letter Recipient Can Speak Out For First Time Since FBI Demanded Customer Records From Him
Follow up to previous postings on National Security Letters, this news release: “The FBI has partially lifted a gag it imposed on American Civil Liberties Union client Nicholas Merrill in 2004 that prevented him from disclosing to anyone that he received a national security letter (NSL) demanding private customer records. Merrill, who received the NSL… Continue Reading
Report on Supervised Release of Federal Offenders
Report on Supervised Release of Federal Offenders – July 27, 2010 “Since the late 1980s, nearly 1 million federal offenders have been sentenced to terms of supervised release. The U.S. Sentencing Commission recently published a lengthy report that addresses the legal framework of, and most common legal issues connected with, supervised release. The report explains… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Your Cheat Sheet for Local Rule Motion Practice Part Two: Central District of California
Your Cheat Sheet for Local Rule Motion Practice Part Two: Central District of California, by Wendy Schneider” You know the Federal Rules backwards and forwards, but its compliance with the local rules that really makes a civil litigator look like a pro to colleagues and clients, and leaves the opposition in the dust. In this… Continue Reading
75 Percent of PACER Users Won’t Pay for Access Under New Fee Schedule
News release: “A recent change in the fee exemption policy of the Federal Judiciarys Public Access to Court Electronic Records system means that 75 percent of PACER users wont pay any fee this year. The policy-making Judicial Conference of the United States approved last March 16 an adjustment to the Electronic Public Access Fee Schedule… Continue Reading
