News release: “Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, rose 27 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. March 2010 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,531,997, compared to the 1,202,395 bankruptcy cases filed in… Continue Reading
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Resources on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan Nominated to the Supreme Court: “On April 9, 2010 Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would retire after nearly 35 years on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Obama announced the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Stevens on May 10, 2010. This is President Obama’s second nomination… Continue Reading
U.S. Courts: More States Report Wiretap Activity
News release: “A total of 2,376 federal and state applications for orders authorizing the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, known as wiretaps, was reported in 2009. The number of applications for orders by federal authorities was 663; the number of applications reported by state prosecuting officials was 1,713. No applications were denied. The… Continue Reading
U.S. Courts Report Rise in Business Bankruptcies
News release: “Much attention has been paid by the media and others to the recent rapid rise in consumer bankruptcies. But less attention has been paid to the even faster rise in business bankruptcies. Recently, John Golmant, a statistician in the Statistics Division of the Administrative Office, examined the numbers behind the increase. In 2009,… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – Commentary: Justice Stevens Invented the Internet
Justice Stevens Invented the Internet – With the announcement that Justice John Paul Stevens will resign from the Supreme Court at the end of this term, Jonathan Band and Matt Schruers focus on one of his opinions that has had a direct daily impact on virtually all Americans: the majority opinion in Sony v. Universal,… Continue Reading
EFF, Yahoo and Google Argue for Fourth Amendment Protection of Email
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo! in asking a federal court Tuesday to block a government attempt to access the contents of a Yahoo! email account without a search warrant based on probable cause. The Department of Justice… Continue Reading
Supreme Court: Justice Stevens Retirement Announcement
News release: “Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has today sent the attached letter to the White House, notifying President Barack Obama of his retirement from the Supreme Court, effective one day after the Court rises for the summer recess this year. Justice Stevens has served on the Supreme Court for 34 years. He is 89… Continue Reading
Comcast Corporation v. FCC – Appeals Court Rules Against Net Neutraility
EFF: “In a ruling that imposes important limits on the FCC’s authority to regulate the Internet, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today overturned the FCC ruling against Comcast for interfering with the BitTorrent traffic of its subscribers. The court found that the Commission had overstepped the limits of its “ancillary authority” when it disciplined… Continue Reading
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employee Email Privacy
EPIC: “The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in favor of a female employee whose employer read emails that she sent while using Yahoo Mail on a company-owned laptop. The employee, Marina Stengart, had exchanged emails with her attorney regarding a possible discrimination lawsuit against the employer. The employer then pulled the emails off of the… Continue Reading
Supreme Court's new Website has a new look, and new features
“Welcome to the Supreme Court’s new Website, which not only has a new look, but also incorporates new features, including: recent Court decisions accessible from the homepage docket files dating back to 2000 an interactive Court calendar a new case citation finder enhanced search and navigation capabilities Continue Reading
Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access
News release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States approved key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users of the Public Access to Electronic Court Records (PACER) system. At its biannual meeting in Washington, D.C., the… Continue Reading
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Fed Must Reveal Info on Loans to Private Banks
Bloomberg: “The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest U.S. government bailout ever, a federal appeals court said. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the Fed must release records of the unprecedented $2 trillion U.S. loan program launched primarily after the 2008… Continue Reading
