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From Tim Stanley and his terrific team at Justia.com, this news: “we just put up a new free U.S. Supreme Court site and full decisions database (Volumes 1 – 545+) with oyez.org and uscourtforms.com. The url for the initial beta version is http://www.justia.us…we have links to real audio and canned searches into google, msn and …
White House press release: Harriet E. Miers, Nominee as Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court The Hunt for the Record – As Activists Struggle to Define Nominee Miers, White House Allies Line Up to Defend Her
Press release: On September 29, 2005, CCR attorneys lauded the landmark decision issued today by federal district court Judge Alvin Hellerstein that ordered the Department of Defense to release hundreds of new photographs and videotapes of abuse in Iraq that the DOD has attempted to withhold from the public. The ruling was in the Freedom …
S. 1768 – A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. Sponsor: Sen Arlen Specter[PA] (introduced 9/26/2005)
“The data, obtained by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) under the Freedom of Information Act…document[s] changes in the kinds of cases being brought to court: immigration and weapons prosecutions are climbing while white collar crime and drug prosecutions are sliding. The new data go through the end of March 2005 (the first half of …
Identity Theft: Outline of Federal Statutes and Bibliography of Select Resources, by Sara R. Paul Free and Fee Based Appellate Court Briefs Online, by Michael Whiteman
How the U.S. Senate Can Obtain Information From Former Federal Government Employees Who Are Now Supreme Court Nominees: A New, More Direct Approach that Won’t Require Fighting Over Records
The Chief Justice of the United States: Responsibilites of the Office and Process for Appointment, updated September 12, 2005 [thanks to GalleryWatch.com]
Press release: “Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER), the service that allows users to obtain case information online from federal courts, now has over 500,000 user accounts. The half-million figure was reached in early September.”
The Library of Congress Law Library Reading Room is pleased to announce the following new resources [Emily Carr, Legal Reference Specialist, Law Library of Congress], which include links to votes, hearing transcripts and Senate statements (statements made about the nominees outside of Executive Session). Supreme Court Nominees – Not Confirmed *Bork, Carswell, Haynsworth, and Thornberry …
Judge Roberts, the Committee Is Interested in Your View on . . . Democratic Members Of Senate Judiciary Committee Announce Witness List For Hearings On Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts Jr.: …those on the list consist “national leaders, legal scholars and courageous Americans who represent many of the vital issues facing the nation today, including …
As posted today on Law-Lib by Ann Fessenden, Circuit Librarian, 8th Circuit, this update from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts (memo 9/9/05): The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is closed and will move its operations temporarily to Houston. It will re-open on September 14, 2005, for the most urgent business. The …
