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Joel Zand, FindLaw: “A panel of three federal judges ordered the State of California to reduce its inmate population because of prison overcrowding, resulting in the release of approximately 43,000 prisoners during the next two years so that the state’s prisons can operate at 137.5% of their design capacity. In a 184-page opinion, the panel …
“The federal Judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system has reached the one million mark in number of subscribers who have registered since 1991. The system allows users to obtain federal court case and docket information via the Internet.”
Overview of Statutory Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: “The Commission has identified at least 171 individual mandatory minimum provisions currently in the federal criminal statutes. In the Commissions fiscal year 2008 datafile, there were 31,239 counts of conviction that carried a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment.3 Because an offender may be sentenced for multiple counts of conviction …
“Very timely Justice Department data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) show that immigration enforcement under the Obama Administration is returning to the unusually high levels that were reached under President Bush. The clearest sign of the administration’s current immigration enforcement policy emerged from the monthly growth in such prosecutions — …
Follow up to previous postings on US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, from today’s Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing: Witness Testimony – Judge Sonia Sotomayor Member Statements NPR – Sotomayor: ‘Fidelity To The Law’ Guides Me Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings (1971 – forward)
Brennan Center for Justice: Language Access in State Courts, Laura Abel “Nearly 25 million people in this country have limited proficiency in English (LEP), meaning that they cannot protect their rights in court without the assistance of an interpreter. At least 13 million of those people live in states that do not require their courts …
A Guide to the Preservation of Federal Judges Papers, Second Edition, Federal Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Center 2009 “The preservation of a judges chambers papers and other personal records establishes a foundation for historical studies that document the role of the federal judiciary in American life. The personal papers of a judge offer a …
“The National Archives Office of Records Services, the William J. Clinton Library, and the George Bush Library released records relating to Judge Sonia Sotomayor.”
New York Times: The Place of Women on the Court, interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
CRS – Judge Sonia Sotomayor: Analysis of Selected Opinions, June 19, 2009: “In May 2009, Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court. Several weeks later, President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to fill his seat. …
New York Times DealBook: “A federal judge late on Sunday approved a plan by General Motors to sell its best assets to a new, government-backed company, a crucial step for the automaker to restructure and complete its trip through bankruptcy court. The decision by the judge, Robert E. Gerber, of Federal Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, …
A Guide to the Preservation of Federal Judge’ Papers, Second Edition Federal Judicial History Office, 2009, 89 pages (Forthcoming) “A publication that discusses the importance of federal judges’ papers as a documentary record of judges’ careers and the work of the federal courts. The guide describes how students of the federal courts use judges’ papers …
