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News release: “A court ruled today that the National Security Archive may proceed with its effort to force the White House to recover millions of Bush Administration Executive Office of the President (EOP) e-mail records before the presidential transition. Rejecting the government’s motion to dismiss the Archive’s lawsuit, the Court ruled that the Federal Records …
Report on Federal Escape Offenses in Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007: “In response to a suggestion in a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, United States v. Chambers, 473 F.3d 724 (7th Cir. 2007), cert. granted, __ U.S. __ , 128 S. Ct. 2046 (2008), the United States Sentencing …
News release: “In a striking rebuke to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday rejected the CIA’s view that it – and not journalists – has the right to determine which Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are newsworthy. Reconsidering its earlier …
“In EPIC v. DOJ, EPIC, the ACLU, and the National Security Archive are seeking government documents regarding the President’s warrantless wiretapping program. Today, a federal court ordered the Department of Justice to provide for inspection copies of legal memos authored by government lawyers. The opinions, prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel, provided the legal …
Fact Sheet: Major U.S. Export Enforcement Prosecutions During the Past Two Years – “…a snapshot of some of the major export and embargo-related criminal prosecutions handled by the Justice Department over the past two years, beginning in October 2006. These cases resulted from investigations by the Department of Homeland Securitys U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
News release: “Over 14,000 plaintiff winners received monetary damages in civil trials nationwide in 2005, with less than 5 percent receiving damages exceeding $1 million, the Justice Departments Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The BJS study is the first nationally representative measure of general civil (that is, tort, contract, and real property) bench …
Processed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests – “The George Bush Library is in the process of updating and adding to the list of finding aids on this page” [which currently includes documents from 1998 to 2005].
October 16, 2008 – Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Federal Civil Service Annuities October 14, 2008 – Potential Offset Supply in a Cap-and-Trade Program October 14, 2008 – Federal Personnel: Conversion of Employees from Appointed (Noncareer) Positions to Career Positions in the Executive Branch October 14, 2008 – Auction Basics: Background for Assessing Proposed Treasury Purchases of …
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC): “The latest available data from the Justice Department show that for the first ten months of FY 2008, the federal government reported filing 151 criminal mortgage fraud cases. The DOJ has only recently created a category for tracking such cases. Because of natural court delays, however, the government said that …
TRAC news release: “…the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday turned over to TRAC thousands of pages of agency statistics on audits of all types, including individual, corporate, partnership and S corporation audits. A strongly worded June 13, 2008 ruling issued by Judge Marsha Pechman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington …
Statutory Structure and Legislative Drafting Conventions: A Primer for Judges, M. Douglass Bellis, Deputy Legislative Counsel, United States House of Representatives, Federal Judicial Center 2008 “The Federal Judicial Center has published a guide, Statutory Structure and Legislative Drafting Conventions: A Primer for Judges. It describes the statutory framework of federal law and examines some legislative …
President Bush Discusses Judicial Accomplishments and Philosophy, October 6, 2008 Fact Sheet: Judges Who Honor the Constitution In Focus: Judicial Nominations
