Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Continue to Face Challenges in Tracking Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-10-1, October 01, 2009 Emergency Management: Preliminary Observations on FEMA’s Community Preparedness Programs Related to the National Preparedness System, GAO-10-105T, October 01, 2009 Personnel Security Clearances: An Outcome-Focused Strategy and Comprehensive Reporting of Timeliness and… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Courts
BJS: Contract Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005
Contract Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005: “Presents findings on contract cases disposed of by a bench or jury trial in a nationally representative sample of jurisdictions in 2005. Topics in the report include the types of cases that proceed to trial, differences between the types of cases decided by judges or juries,… Continue Reading
Advocacy Group: Court Finds USDA Violated Federal Law by Allowing Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets on the Market
“In a case brought by Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice representing a coalition of farmers and consumers, a Federal Court ruled yesterday that the Bush USDAs approval of genetically engineered (GE) RoundUp Ready sugar beets [note: sugar beets produce 30 percent of the world’s sugar] was unlawful. The Court ordered the USDA to conduct… Continue Reading
DOJ Filing on Google Book Setttlement – Digital Library Delayed
Follow up to previous postings on what is becoming the saga of the Google Book Settlement, the following articles, legal documents and commentary today: New York Times: Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement Author’s Guild: “Beating their midnight deadline by about 90 minutes, the Justice Department on Friday filed a brief calling for modifications… Continue Reading
Justice Department Submits Views on Proposed Google Book Search Settlement
Follow up to previous posting on Google book search, this news release today: Justice Department Submits Views on Proposed Google Book Search Settlement: “The Department of Justice today advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that while it should not accept the class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc.… Continue Reading
Gallup: High Court to Start Term With Near Decade-High Approval
Gallup: “As the U.S. Supreme Court convenes Wednesday with recently sworn-in Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench, Gallup finds Americans broadly upbeat about the performance of the high court. Sixty-one percent of Americans approve and 28% disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing — among the most positive ratings the court has received… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com – PACER Spending Survey
PACER Spending Survey: Stanford Law School deputy library director Erika Wayne describes an open source document access project focused on improving PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), sponsored by a small group of research savvy and customer service oriented group of law librarians. Continue Reading
Working Paper – Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts Budget: An Overview
Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts Budget: An Overview Stephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. “This draft working paper examines the role of user fees for public access to records in the budgeting process of the federal courts. It sketches the policy principles that have traditionally… Continue Reading
CDT Urges Privacy Requirements Be Included in Google Books Settlement
“CDT filed a “friend of the court” brief in the Southern District of New York [September 4, 2009] requesting that key privacy requirements be included in the Court’s approval of the class-action settlement that would dramatically expand Google Book Search. CDT previously released a report in July analyzing the privacy implications of this settlement and… Continue Reading
Ninth Circuit: Ashcroft not entitled to absolute and qualified immunity
AL-KIDD v. ASHCROFT, No. 06-36059 D.C. No. CV-05-00093-OPINION Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board Must Release Bank Bailout Info to News Organizations
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:” The string of FOIA lawsuits for release of records of the government’s emergency lending programs finally saw its first victory Monday. The Federal Reserve Board must release to Bloomberg News records identifying the financial firms it loaned bailout funds to as well as the assets or amounts put… Continue Reading
US Courts – Internet Materials in Opinions: Citations and Hyperlinking
The Third Branch: “The Judicial Conference has issued a series of suggested practices to assist courts in the use of Internet materials in opinions. The recommendations follow a pilot project conducted by circuit librarians who captured and preserved webpages cited in opinions over a six-month period…The guidelines suggest that, if a webpage is cited, chambers… Continue Reading
