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Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: “PACER customers can now choose whether the client code field should be mandatory when logging into CM/ECF. In addition, formatting requirements of the client code can be set. The new preference settings allow customers to turn off viewing of transaction receipts if desired…A new “Court Information” utility is available …
Press release: California “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia C. Dunn and four other defendants, alleging they committed criminal offenses related to the use of false pretenses to access individuals’ phone records during the company’s probe of boardroom leaks to the media.” Felony Complaint (7 pages, PDF) Supporting …
“The Population Reference Bureau’s 2006 World Population Data Sheetp rovides new information on the forces shaping migration rates around the world. As long as high birth rates and poverty continue to place pressure on populations, migrants will see advantages to moving to countries with more resources and greater opportunities…The United States is set to reach …
Press release today: “U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) on Friday introduced aggressive bipartisan legislation to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The legislation sets forceful greenhouse gas emissions targets that the best science available suggests will keep temperatures below the danger point.” “Requires that the U.S. freeze …
Coal Mine Hazardous Condition Complaint Process Should Be Strengthened, Report No. 05-06-006-06-001 (September 29, 2006) [Summary ] | [Full Report] | [Agency Response]
Press release: “Chief Justice John Roberts praised in a recent speech “the importance and rarity of the judicial independence we have in our country,” and warned against continuing attacks against it. “The long history of attack on judicial independence confirms that neither side in the political debate has a monopoly on the tactic,” he said …
“As announced earlier through FOIA Post, the Office of Information and Privacy is planning to publish the 2006 edition of the Department of Justice’s Freedom of Information Act Guide next month. The 2006 edition of the FOIA Guide is scheduled to be published through the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) in November, with a delivery …
The Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services’ Offices of the Inspector General – Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Annual Report: Fiscal 2005 (44 pages, PDF), August 2006.
Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry, October 2006 (65 pages, PDF). “The CBO study describes the state of pharmaceutical research and development, analyzes the factors that influence drug development and examines how well markets are working to promote new treatments. In addition, the study provides information about the types of drugs that result from …
Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General Evaluation and Inspections Division, The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Monitoring of Mail for High-Risk Inmates, September 2006, Report Number I-2006-009 (122 pages, PDF). “The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted this review to evaluate how effectively the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prevents terrorist and other …
Information Security: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Needs to Improve Controls over Key Communication Network, Full-text GAO-06-750, and Highlights, August 30, 2006. “Although CMS had many key information security controls in place–which had been designed to safeguard the communication network–some were missing, and existing ones had not always been effectively implemented. Significant weaknesses …
Press release: Physician-Patient E-mail Disconnect: “Only about one in four physicians (24%) reported that e-mail was used in their practice to communicate clinical issues with patients in 2004-05, up from one in five physicians in 2000-01, according to a national study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
