News release: “The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has released the publication High-Priority Criminal Justice Technology Needs. This publication is a description of the research, development, evaluation, and testing process that NIJ goes through to ensure their research portfolios are aligned with the needs of… Continue Reading
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New Jersey Files Suit Against Executives and Directors of Lehman Brothers
News release – New Jersey Files Suit Against Executives and Directors of Lehman Brothers. Eight-count complaint charges company misrepresentations led to state losing millions on stock investments in 2008. “With this suit we intend to hold Lehman executives and directors accountable for the fraud and misrepresentation that caused more than $100 million in losses to… Continue Reading
Judiciary Updates Code of Conduct; Seeks New Judgeships
News release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today adopted a revised Code of Conduct for United States Judges that will take effect July 1, 2009, the first substantial Code revision since 1992. At its biannual meeting, the Conference also voted to ask Congress to create 63 new federal judgeships 12 in the… Continue Reading
TRAC Challenges Government Privacy Claim
News release: “The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) today asked the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to reverse its decision withholding government organizational information on the grounds that the release would violate the privacy of individual employees. TRAC’s appeal to OPM concerned a February 23 ruling by Gary A. Lukowski, the manager of OPM’s Workforce… Continue Reading
US v. Madoff – Government's Notice of Intent To Seek Forfeiture of Certain Assets
WSJ: Cough It Up, Bernie: Feds Look to Seize Homes, Boats, Pianos… USA v Madoff 09 Cr. 213 U.S. District Court for the Southern District Court of New York (Manhattan) and 08-01789 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York. Related postings on Madoff Continue Reading
Bankruptcies Rose 31 Percent, Topped One Million in 2008
US Courts: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts rose 31 percent in calendar year 2008, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The number of bankruptcies filed in the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2008, totaled 1,117,771, up from 850,912 bankruptcies filed in CY 2007. Filings have grown since… Continue Reading
President Bush's Judicial Appointments Ranked Third Behind Reagan, Clinton
US Courts: “President George W. Bush appointed 328 persons to Article III judgeships, the third most of any president.” Continue Reading
Pew: One in 31 U.S. Adults are Behind Bars, on Parole or Probation
News release: “Explosive growth in the number of people on probation or parole has propelled the population of the American corrections system to more than 7.3 million, or 1 in every 31 U.S. adults, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on the States. The vast majority of these offenders live in… Continue Reading
National Internal Security/Terrorism Prosecutions for November 2008
“The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during November 2008 the government reported 16 new national internal security/terrorism prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is up from 13 in the previous month. These two months’ figures are the lowest recorded in this… Continue Reading
Google Book Search Settlement – New Commercial and Access Models Await Readers
Timothy B. Lee: “Speaking at Princeton on Thursday, Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers, discussed the landmark settlement in the Google Book Search case. Sarnoff speculated that the agreement could effectively give Google and Amazon a “duopoly” in the online book market.” Richard Sarnoff – Reinventing Access to Books: The Landmark Settlement… Continue Reading
US Courts: Federal Court Forms Now Categorized
Update to February 4, 2009 posting, New and Restyled Civil and Criminal Forms Now Online, the reference has been revised to facilitate user access, see Federal Court Forms Now Categorized – A list of 56 new and restyled civil and criminal forms has been posted in a categorized listing. Continue Reading
District Court Judge Directs Treasury to Comply With Fox Document Request
“FOX Business Network has won a victory against the Treasury Department in its Freedom of Information Act request for details about the governments bailout plan. Judge Richard J. Holwell of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a decision Friday that the government is directed to comply with FOX… Continue Reading
