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US Courts: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts rose 31 percent in calendar year 2008, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The number of bankruptcies filed in the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2008, totaled 1,117,771, up from 850,912 bankruptcies filed in CY 2007. Filings have grown since …
US Courts: “President George W. Bush appointed 328 persons to Article III judgeships, the third most of any president.”
News release: “Explosive growth in the number of people on probation or parole has propelled the population of the American corrections system to more than 7.3 million, or 1 in every 31 U.S. adults, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on the States. The vast majority of these offenders live in …
“The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during November 2008 the government reported 16 new national internal security/terrorism prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is up from 13 in the previous month. These two months’ figures are the lowest recorded in this …
Timothy B. Lee: “Speaking at Princeton on Thursday, Richard Sarnoff, chairman of the Association of American Publishers, discussed the landmark settlement in the Google Book Search case. Sarnoff speculated that the agreement could effectively give Google and Amazon a “duopoly” in the online book market.” Richard Sarnoff – Reinventing Access to Books: The Landmark Settlement …
Update to February 4, 2009 posting, New and Restyled Civil and Criminal Forms Now Online, the reference has been revised to facilitate user access, see Federal Court Forms Now Categorized – A list of 56 new and restyled civil and criminal forms has been posted in a categorized listing.
“FOX Business Network has won a victory against the Treasury Department in its Freedom of Information Act request for details about the governments bailout plan. Judge Richard J. Holwell of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a decision Friday that the government is directed to comply with FOX …
A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime: “Sharp growth in illegal immigration and increased enforcement of immigration laws have dramatically altered the ethnic composition of offenders sentenced in federal courts. In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders – more than triple their share (13%) of the total U.S. adult population. The …
Alternative Sentencing in the Federal Criminal Justice System, United States Sentencing Commission, January 2009. “During the past ten years, alternatives to incarceration1 have been imposed for between 15 and 25 percent of federal offenders. The true extent to which courts impose these alternatives is not apparent in this trend, however, because of the unique composition …
News release: “The United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that on February 9, 2009, it submitted to the Honorable Judge Louis L. Stanton, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, the consent of Bernard L. Madoff to a proposed partial judgment imposing a permanent injunction and continuing relief previously imposed in …
“A list of 56 new and restyled civil and criminal forms has been posted. A working group of judges, clerks, and staff members in the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has rewritten the forms in simple, modern English.”
US Court: “New poverty guidelines for 2009, needed by persons seeking fee waivers when filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, have been posted. Guidelines and Other Bankruptcy Resources.”
