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The Third Branch: “On December 1, 2006, amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 16, 26, 33, 34, 45 and revisions to Form 35 will take effect unless Congress enacts legislation to reject, modify or defer them. These amendments and revisions are all aimed at one particular area of discoveryelectronically stored information, meaning all information …
Televising Supreme Court and Other Federal Court Proceedings: Legislation and Issues, updated November 8, 2006. Related news: Verdict out on cameras in Supreme Court
November 27, 2006 statement: “Last week, CDT and the ACLU joined a friend-of-the-court brief written by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging a federal appeals court to extend to e-mail the same constitutional protection accorded to telephone calls and regular mail. Remarkably, the constitutional status of e-mail has never been decided, and the Justice Department claims …
Comptroller General of the United States, November 17, 2006. Subject: Suggested Areas for Oversight for the 110th Congress (44 pages, PDF). The report addresses several dozen issues divided into three areas: near-term oversight, policies and programs that are in need of fundamental reform, and governance issues that will ensure an economical, efficient, effective, ethical and …
CRS Report – Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution — Updated November 20, 2006.
This memo from the Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Florida State Department, announces that an audit will commence on November 28, 2006 to test the voting systems and administrative procedures used in the Congressional District 13 race in Sarasota. [via USACM, this backgounder on the Florida voting problems and the lawsuits contesting the election.]
Follow up to September 18, 2006 – posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute: Google defends against Belgian newspaper copyright case – Launches spirited defense of caching, summarizing, fair use Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups – They objected to how it indexes and displays their content on Google News
The following are available via FAS: Intelligence Estimates: How Useful to Congress?, November 21, 2006 Iraqi Civilian Deaths Estimates, November 22, 2006 Anti-Terrorism Authority Under the Laws of the United Kingdom and the United States, September 7, 2006
Press release: “GalleryWatch and Pennyhill Press are pleased to announce that the GW CRS reports have now been posted for 1994, meaning we now the most complete set of reports available online for the years 1994 – 2006. We have posted 957 documents for 1994, bringing our database of CRS documents to a total of …
Press release: “Following requests for an investigation of the National Security Agencys (NSA) warrantless surveillance program from Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), and other House members, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Glenn A. Fine today informed Lofgren and Hinchey that his office has opened a program review of the agency’s involvement …
From Marcus P. Zillman, his Awareness Watch Report this month features Healthcare Resources, which list many useful free and fee based topical resources available to researchers on the Web.
Election Night 2006 An Evening in the Life of the American Media, November 27, 2006 – by the Project for Excellence in Journalism: “For the blogosphere, a fairly smooth election night made things something of a disappointment. For top newspaper Web sites, finding the balance between speed and offering a rich narrative still has to …
