Day archives: November 9th, 2012

CBO – Choices for Deficit Reduction

Choices for Deficit Reduction: “This report reviews the magnitude and causes of the federal government’s budgetary imbalance, various options for bringing spending and taxes into closer alignment, and criteria that lawmakers and the public might use to evaluate different approaches to deficit reduction.”

Subjects: Government Documents

TRAC – Striking Judge-to-Judge Differences in Federal Criminal Caseloads

“An analysis of case-by-case records covering more than 400,000 defendants has found surprising variations in the criminal caseloads of individual federal judges for the nation as a whole and in some instances among the judges serving in the same courthouse. The extent of these differences, disclosed in a study by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access …

Subjects: Courts