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Follow up to previous posting on Google book search, this news release today: Justice Department Submits Views on Proposed Google Book Search Settlement: “The Department of Justice today advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that while it should not accept the class action settlement in The Authors Guild Inc. …
Gallup: “As the U.S. Supreme Court convenes Wednesday with recently sworn-in Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench, Gallup finds Americans broadly upbeat about the performance of the high court. Sixty-one percent of Americans approve and 28% disapprove of the job the Supreme Court is doing — among the most positive ratings the court has received …
PACER Spending Survey: Stanford Law School deputy library director Erika Wayne describes an open source document access project focused on improving PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), sponsored by a small group of research savvy and customer service oriented group of law librarians.
Electronic Public Access Fees and the United States Federal Courts Budget: An Overview Stephen Schultze, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. “This draft working paper examines the role of user fees for public access to records in the budgeting process of the federal courts. It sketches the policy principles that have traditionally …
“CDT filed a “friend of the court” brief in the Southern District of New York [September 4, 2009] requesting that key privacy requirements be included in the Court’s approval of the class-action settlement that would dramatically expand Google Book Search. CDT previously released a report in July analyzing the privacy implications of this settlement and …
AL-KIDD v. ASHCROFT, No. 06-36059 D.C. No. CV-05-00093-OPINION
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:” The string of FOIA lawsuits for release of records of the government’s emergency lending programs finally saw its first victory Monday. The Federal Reserve Board must release to Bloomberg News records identifying the financial firms it loaned bailout funds to as well as the assets or amounts put …
The Third Branch: “The Judicial Conference has issued a series of suggested practices to assist courts in the use of Internet materials in opinions. The recommendations follow a pilot project conducted by circuit librarians who captured and preserved webpages cited in opinions over a six-month period…The guidelines suggest that, if a webpage is cited, chambers …
News release: “In the 12-month period ending June 30, 2009, there were 1,306,315 bankruptcy cases filed, according to statistics released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That is a 35 percent increase compared to filings for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2008, when cases totaled 967,831.”
WSJ: Justice O’Connor’s continuing judicial work [as a substitute judge, Justice O’Connor has heard nearly 80 cases and written more than a dozen opinions] comes in addition to many other activities, from ceremonial functions — such as serving as grand marshal of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, Calif., and as chancellor of the College of …
New York Times: “Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the judicial oath on Aug. 8, 2009, becoming the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Supreme Court in United States history.” Milestones: Sonia Sotomayor – An interactive timeline of Sonia Sotomayors life and career. Related postings on Justice Sonia Sotomayor
As reported in the Concorde Monitor (New Hampshire), Justice Souter’s longtime neighbor said “Souter told him one of the reasons he decided to move was because his Weare house wasn’t structurally sound enough to hold the thousands of books that make up his library.”
