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In response to a FOIA request filed by the Washington Post seeking the records of persons who visited the Vice President’s residence and White House Office, D.C. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina issued a memo opinion granting plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction (25 pages, PDF).
U.S. v. Lester Crawford, October 16, 2006: “Former FDA Chief Lester Crawford is charged with lying about, and failing to disclose, his ownership of Pepsico and Sysco stock, and stock options in Embrex Inc. while working at the federal agency, and with a conflict of interest for holding the stocks while being involved with a …
Guidelines for State Trial Courts Regarding Discovery of Electronically-Stored Information, Conference of Chief Justices, Approved August 2006.
Guide to Using State Court Caseload Statistics: “This Guide is the result of an ongoing collaboration between the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), the Court Statistics Project (CSP) of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), trial court administrators, state and trial court statisticians, and other court experts from around the country.” [see also …
NCSC Research: Court Statistics Project – Examining the Work of State Courts – Comprehensive analysis of the business of state trial and appellate courts. Full report (91 pages, PDF) Search Graphical Content by State Past Reports 1998-2004
Following up on articles by Jonathan Band published on LLRX.com – The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, and The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project – news from Bloomberg: “Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project.”
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts: “PACER customers can now choose whether the client code field should be mandatory when logging into CM/ECF. In addition, formatting requirements of the client code can be set. The new preference settings allow customers to turn off viewing of transaction receipts if desired…A new “Court Information” utility is available …
Press release: “Chief Justice John Roberts praised in a recent speech “the importance and rarity of the judicial independence we have in our country,” and warned against continuing attacks against it. “The long history of attack on judicial independence confirms that neither side in the political debate has a monopoly on the tactic,” he said …
Supreme Court Order List, Monday October 2, 2006
Human Capital: Trends in Executive and Judicial Pay Suggest a Reexamination of the Total Compensation Package, Full-text GAO-06-1116T, and Highlights, September 20, 2006. “People are critical to the success of the federal government’s overall transformation effort. Yet the government has not transformed, in many cases for decades, how it classifies, compensates, develops, and motivates its …
Press release: “A new analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice and Justice at Stake reveals that special interest groups have spent $1,797,449 on television advertising to influence the outcomes of 2006 state Supreme Court campaigns through the end of September, a startling 69 percent jump over the same point in the 2004 election cycle. …
Judicial Conduct and Disability Study Committee Report, A Report to the Chief Justice, September 2006 (188 pages, PDF). Press release: “The Committee and staff studied a sample consisting of approximately 700 complaint files drawn for the most part from about 2200 complaints terminated over a three year period (2001-2003). The members of the Committee established …
