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“EPIC, in cooperation with the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief (42 pages, PDF) in Hepting v. AT&T. This lawsuit alleges that AT&T allowed the government to wiretap calls and e-mails without judicial authority. The U.S. government and AT&T seek to dismiss this case. The EPIC brief states, “The statutes and constitutional provisions …
Federal Judiciary News Release: “A total of 1,839 orders were issued by federal and state courts in 2006 authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, also known as wiretaps. This is a 4 percent increase over the 1,773 orders issued in 2005, according to The 2006 Wiretap Report. The complete report …
Naitional Center for State Courts, Grand Juries Resource Guide
Follow up to previous postings on judicial pay raises, see How to Pay the Piper: It’s Time to Call Different Tunes for Congressional and Judicial Salaries – Issues in Governance Studies, April 2007 “A group of former U.S. Senators and Representatives is preparing to call for Congress to end the practice of linking the salaries …
Follow up to previous postings on pay raise for judges, “Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito testified before a House subcommittee, calling for a salary increase for federal judges. Breyer text (pdf). Alito text (pdf). See also this Fact Sheet on Judicial Compensation.” Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing …
Press release: ” Federal courts are handling more class action cases since the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) was enacted, a study shows. “In the 16 months since CAFA went into effect on February 18, 2005…we find a substantial increase in class action activity based on diversity of citizenship jurisdiction,” said the third …
Press release: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts dropped 70 percent in calendar year 2006, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. However, bankruptcies filed for the last three months of calendar year 2006 were the highest of any quarter in the calendar year. The statistics cover the first …
Press release: “Nebraska’s Court Case One Time Search service provides online access to court case records in all 93 county courts and 92 of the state’s 93 district courts (excluding the district court in Douglas County). The service was launched through a collaborative effort between the Nebraska Office of the State Court Administrator and Nebraska.gov. …
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, hearing – Responding to The Inspector General’s Findings of Improper Use of National Security Letters by the FBI, April 11, 2007. Via American Library Association Washington Office Newsline: “George Christian, Executive Director of the Library Connection and former plaintiff in John Doe v. Gonzales, …
Follow up to postings on investigations into FBI use of National Security Letters, this press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a judge to issue an emergency order requiring the FBI to immediately release agency records about its abuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans’ personal information. The Department of Justice …
American College of Trial Lawyers, Judicial Compensation – Our Federal Judges Must be Fairly Paid, March 2007 (16 pages, PDF).
The Supreme Court decision, April 2, 2007, 05-1120 Massachusetts v. EPA (66 pages, PDF). Via Cornell, Court’s 5-4 opinion per Justice Stevens, a dissent from Chief Justice Roberts and a second dissent from Justice Scalia. WSJ free feature: Industries Show Uncertainty Over Ruling’s Impact – Some Favor Regulation From Congress, Others From Federal Agencies Clean …
