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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana: Gulf Oil Spill; Order Granting Preliminary Injunction (Hornbeck v. Salazar CA 10-1663), June 22, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill; Drilling Moratorium Decision (Hornbeck v. Salazar CA 10-1663), June 22, 2010
Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill – United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana: “Over 30 cases relating to the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill have been assigned to Judge Carl Barbier, Section J. The Deepwater Horizon incident has led to claims for the death of 11 individuals, numerous …
Follow up to previous posting sentencing guidelines, “U.S. Sentencing Commission has published the results of the first-ever survey of federal trial judges to elicit their views about federal sentencing under the advisory guidelines system in effect since 2005. The survey, among many other findings, indicates that 62 percent of the responding judges believe that mandatory …
EPIC: “The Supreme Court has issued a ruling in City of Ontario v. Quon, a case concerning the reasonablenees of a search of a public employee’s pager. EPIC filed a “friend of the court” brief in the case, arguing that data minimization practices should be followed for electronic searches, and that the search, which uncovered …
News release: “On Friday, June 11, 2010, the Clinton Library [made] available an additional 41,759 pages of materials relating to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The records [are] posted on their web site: www.clintonlibrary.gov. The opening includes materials primarily related to Kagans tenure in the White House Counsel’s Office. Other files concern her nomination to …
Text of Justice David Souters speech during Harvard’s 359th Commencement, via Harvard Gazette. [Dan MacMeekin]
News release: “The William Clinton Presidential Library will open records relating to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagans tenure at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the White House Counsels Office. The release of papers from the approximately 160,000 pages of material will be made available on the Clinton Library web site in batches …
News release: “The Federal Judiciarys website, www.uscourts.gov, today unveils a host of enhancements. The site has been redesigned to make it more attractive, accessible, and useful to its diverse audience of users. The improvements further the websites mission of increasing public interest, awareness, and understanding of the federal court system and its functions, and to …
News release: “Bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, rose 27 percent when compared to bankruptcy filings for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2009, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. March 2010 bankruptcy filings totaled 1,531,997, compared to the 1,202,395 bankruptcy cases filed in …
Elena Kagan Nominated to the Supreme Court: “On April 9, 2010 Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would retire after nearly 35 years on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Obama announced the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Stevens on May 10, 2010. This is President Obama’s second nomination …
News release: “A total of 2,376 federal and state applications for orders authorizing the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, known as wiretaps, was reported in 2009. The number of applications for orders by federal authorities was 663; the number of applications reported by state prosecuting officials was 1,713. No applications were denied. The …
News release: “Much attention has been paid by the media and others to the recent rapid rise in consumer bankruptcies. But less attention has been paid to the even faster rise in business bankruptcies. Recently, John Golmant, a statistician in the Statistics Division of the Administrative Office, examined the numbers behind the increase. In 2009, …
