A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime: “Sharp growth in illegal immigration and increased enforcement of immigration laws have dramatically altered the ethnic composition of offenders sentenced in federal courts. In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders – more than triple their share (13%) of the total U.S. adult population. The… Continue Reading
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Report: Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System
Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System, United States Sentencing Commission, January 2009. “During the past ten years, alternatives to incarceration1 have been imposed for between 15 and 25 percent of federal offenders. The true extent to which courts impose these alternatives is not apparent in this trend, however, because of the unique composition… Continue Reading
SEC Litigation: Bernard L. Madoff and Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
News release: “The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on February 9, 2009, it submitted to the Honorable Judge Louis L. Stanton, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, the consent of Bernard L. Madoff to a proposed partial judgment imposing a permanent injunction and continuing relief previously imposed in… Continue Reading
New and Restyled Civil and Criminal Forms Now Online
“A list of 56 new and restyled civil and criminal forms has been posted. A working group of judges, clerks, and staff members in the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has rewritten the forms in simple, modern English.” Continue Reading
New Poverty Guidelines Posted on Bankruptcy Page
US Court: “New poverty guidelines for 2009, needed by persons seeking fee waivers when filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, have been posted. Guidelines and Other Bankruptcy Resources.” Continue Reading
Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics Posted Through March 31, 2008
“The Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics tables for courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy courts, and the federal probation system and pretrial services through March 31, 2008 are newly posted.” Continue Reading
FTC Launches Redress Program for Mortgage Loan Victims
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency returned almost $28 million to consumers this week as a result of a settlement with The Bear Stearns Companies, LLC and EMC Mortgage Corporation. Using the defendants records, about 86,000 consumers who had mortgage loans serviced by EMC have been mailed redress checks.” Continue Reading
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal on Child Online Protective Act
CDT news release: “The Supreme Court Wednesday dealt the final blow to the government’s 10-year campaign to place onerous restrictions on Internet content. The Court declined to hear the government’s appeal of lower court rulings [3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in COPA February 22, 2008] that declared the Child Online Protection Act as… Continue Reading
White House Acknowledged Scope of Missing E-mails in Court Today
Follow up to previous postings on missing White House emails, today’s news release: “At a hearing today concerning the risks posed by the presidential transition to the recovery of millions of missing e-mails from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) in the National Security Archive’s lawsuit seeking restoration of those e-mails, the White House… Continue Reading
Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals
“The Federal Judicial Center has posted a monograph that offers a brief introduction to the complexity and nuance in the subject-matter jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, including civil and criminal appeals, extraordinary writs, and federal agency reviews.” A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, Second Edition, Thomas E. Baker,… Continue Reading
Chief Justice Robert's 2008 Year-End Report
2008 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary: “The Judiciary, including the Supreme Court, other federal courts, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and the Federal Judicial Center, received a total appropriation in fiscal year 2008 of $6.2 billion. That represents a mere two-tenths of 1% of the United States total $3 trillion budget.… Continue Reading
Brady Campaign Files Suit Asking Court to Strike Down Bush Administration Change to Guns in Parks Rule
News release: “The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence today filed suit in federal court asking that the court strike down a last-minute Bush Administration rule change allowing concealed, loaded firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and seeks an injunction… Continue Reading
