News release: “While the Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush established definitively the right of habeas corpus for detainees at Guantanamo, it left many important questions unresolved about how these habeas petitions would be adjudicated. As a consequence, the District of Columbia District Court and Court of Appeals have been charged with deciding such… Continue Reading
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Bankruptcies in FY 2009 Rose By 34.5 Percent
News release: “Bankruptcy cases filed in federal courts for fiscal year 2009 totaled 1,402,816, up 34.5 percent over the 1,042,993 filings reported for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2008, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The federal Judiciarys fiscal year is the 12-month period ending September 30.… Continue Reading
District Court in Louisiana Findings of Fact in Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation
“The Court entered its Findings of Fact and Conclusion of law in the Robinson matter. The Court ruled that the failure of the United States Army Corps of Engineers to maintain and operate the MRGO properly was a substantial cause for the failure of the Reach 2 Levee. It found that the Corps was not… Continue Reading
Media Alerts on Federal Courts of Appeals Website of the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements
“Welcome to the new Media Alerts on Federal Courts of Appeals Website of the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements. This website is designed to provide reporters, lawyers, educators, and the public with prompt, accurate, unbiased information about newsworthy and legally significant cases pending in and decided by the Federal Courts of Appeals. Our… Continue Reading
Updated Sentencing Guidelines Manual Now Available Online
“The 2009 Guidelines Manual (effective November 1, 2009) is available in HTML and Adobe .PDF formats (large file and broken into chapters), which can be viewed, downloaded or printed via the website.” Related postings on sentencing guidelines Continue Reading
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – The Role of Courts in Protecting and Preserving Human Rights
“The Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in conjunction with the Cornell Law School is committed to helping the Rwanda Tribunal garner more attention world-wide. The lessons and legacy of ground-breaking legal matters related to the unspeakable events in Rwanda should not be forgotten. Humans, whether from rich or poor countries, must remain vigilant in curbing… Continue Reading
Widely Cited Supreme Court Database Made More Accessible
News release: “The success of the highly regarded Supreme Court Database has been unparalleled. Information from the database is cited in the majority of peer-reviewed articles about the workings of the court. A team including Northwestern University School of Law’s Lee Epstein, a specialist in the politics of the Supreme Court, has expanded the database… Continue Reading
New report provides a history of the child pornography guidelines
“The U.S. Sentencing Commission has issued a report, The History of Child Pornography Guidelines, as a first step in its review of the punishment prescribed for the sexual exploitation of children…The Commission has sought to implement congressional intent in the area of child pornography offenses in a manner consistent with the SRA and subsequent legislation.… Continue Reading
Tort Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005
Tort Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005: “Discusses tort cases concluded by a bench or jury trial in a national sample of jurisdictions in 2005. Topics include the types of tort cases that proceed to trial, the differences between tort cases adjudicated by judges and juries, and the types of plaintiffs and defendants… Continue Reading
2008 Federal Court Statistics: Judicial Facts and Figures
“One of the federal judiciary’s major statistical compilations, Judicial Facts and Figures, recently was updated to include caseload statistics and judgeship totals for fiscal year 2008.” Continue Reading
New GAO Report: Technical Assistance and Better Defined Evaluation Plans Will Help Girls' Delinquency Programs
Juvenile Justice: Technical Assistance and Better Defined Evaluation Plans Will Help Girls’ Delinquency Programs. GAO-10-133T, October 20, 2009: “…from 1995 through 2005, delinquency caseloads for girls in juvenile justice courts nationwide increased 15 percent while boys caseloads decreased by 12 percent.1 More recently, in 2007, 29 percent of juvenile arrestsabout 641,000 arrestsinvolved girls, who accounted… Continue Reading
Mandatory Vaccination of New York Health Care Workers Halted
Follow up to October 10, 2009 posting, Mandatory Flu Shots for New York Health Care Workers, the New York Times today reported Thomas J. McNamara, an acting justice of the State Supreme Court in Albany, issued a temporary order halting the enforcement of mandatory flu vaccines for health care workers. Continue Reading
