Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “We have just added new features that permit the public to examine the immigrant’s residence in all deportation cases before the Immigrant Court. The new features track the state and county of residence during the period FY 2001 through February of 2018. The new tool is particularly powerful because users can… Continue Reading
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Linda Brown, center of Brown v. Board case, dies at 76
Topeka Captial-Journal: “Linda Brown, who as a little girl in Topeka was at the center of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ended school segregation in the United States, has died at age 76. Brown’s sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, founding president of The Brown Foundation, confirmed the death…Linda Brown’s father,… Continue Reading
IRS Referrals for Criminal Prosecution Reach New Low
“The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during January 2018 the government reported receiving 135 new referrals for prosecution from the Internal Revenue Service. According to referral-by-referral data obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number was down substantially from its peak four years ago. For the most recent twelve… Continue Reading
Historical Supreme Court Cases Now Online on loc.gov
Historical Supreme Court Cases Now Online – More Than 35,000 Decisions Now Available, Searchable on loc.gov: “More than 225 years of Supreme Court decisions acquired by the Library of Congress are now publicly available online – free to access in a page image format for the first time. The Library has made available more than… Continue Reading
President Trump receives court summons at White House
Think Progress: “Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland have expanded their lawsuit against President Donald Trump to include Trump in his personal capacity as a businessman. As part of the process, they sent an official summon to Trump at his home, the White House, located on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Lawyers for Trump… Continue Reading
CRS – Modes of Constitutional Interpretation
Modes of Constitutional Interpretation, Brandon J. Murrill, Legislative Attorney. March 15, 2018. “When exercising its power to review the constitutionality of governmental action, the Supreme Court has relied on certain “methods” or “modes” of interpretation—that is, ways of figuring out a particular meaning of a provision within the Constitution. This report broadly describes the most… Continue Reading
Civil Caseloads Vary Markedly for Federal Judges
“The latest available data show that for the year ending December 2017, twelve United States district judges each closed more than a thousand civil cases. Seventeen judges ended the year with a thousand or more pending civil cases. In contrast, the typical active federal district court judge closed around 250 cases this past year, and… Continue Reading
Some Federal Judges Handle An Inordinate Criminal Caseload
“During the past five years, through December 2017, forty-nine federal district court judges each sentenced more than one thousand defendants who appeared before them. All but two of these judges were located in courthouses along the southwest border with Mexico. In contrast, typically judges sentenced several hundred, not several thousand defendants over this five year… Continue Reading
Crapo, Hensarling File Amicus Brief in Support of CFPB Acting Director Mulvaney
Follow-up to recent posting – CRS – D.C. Circuit Upholds as Constitutional the Structure of the CFPB – news from Congress – On March 2, 2018, “38 Senators and 75 Representatives, led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), filed an amicus brief in support… Continue Reading
SCOTUS Clarifies Scope Of Whistleblower Protections Under Dodd-Frank
JDSupra – “On February 21, 2018, in the case of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, the United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that employees who raise internal complaints about possible violation of securities laws are not protected as whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act. To obtain protection from retaliatory measures undertaken by their employers, employees must… Continue Reading
Court Messaging Project
“The Court Messaging Project (now called Wise Messenger) is an open-source initiative from Stanford’s Legal Design Lab, to build an out-of-the-box tool for any court or legal services group to send automated messages to their clients. The overarching goal of the project is to make the court system more navigable and to improve people’s sense… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – From Judging Lawyers to Predicting Outcomes
Via LLRX – From Judging Lawyers to Predicting Outcomes – Itai Gurari discusses Judicata’s latest technology solution – Clerk – that evaluates briefs filed in court, grading them on three dimensions: Arguments, Drafting, and Context. The grading reflects factors like how strong the brief’s arguments are, how persuasive the relied upon cases are, and the… Continue Reading
