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Federal Judiciary Newsroom: “A Journalist’s Guide to the Federal Courts, intended to be a resource for news reporters assigned to cover proceedings in appellate, district or bankruptcy courts….The Guide explores the Federal District Courts, Bankruptcy Courts, and the Federal Appellate Courts.”
From the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, April 28, 2005: 2004 Wiretap Report (For the Period January 1 Through December 31, 2004) Press release: “A total of 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or electronic communications were authorized by federal and state judges in 2004, an increase of 19 percent over 2003.”
DeLay Outlines Strategy Against Federal Judges: “Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, sharply criticized Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court on Tuesday and said the House Judiciary Committee would explore what the authors of the Constitution intended when they said federal judges hold their post on the basis of good behavior.” Related …
From the Federal Judiciary Newsroom today: “Implementation of the federal judiciary’s Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system continues in appellate, district and bankruptcy courts across the country. The new system provides courts with the option to have case file documents in electronic form, and to accept filings over the Internet. Details.
From EFF, Bloggers Speak Up in Apple Case: “Groups working to protect journalists’ press freedoms, the creator of a blog-search tool, weblog publishers, and more than a dozen individual online journalist/bloggers filed a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) [April 11] in Apple v. Does — the case in which Apple Computer is seeking to unmask online journalists’ …
Supreme Court Standards for Peer-to-Peer and Beyond – “The upcoming ruling on copyright infringement in P-to-P networks will have important implications for future technology development.”
From Secrecy News, “During calendar year 2004, 1,758 applications were made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for electronic surveillance and physical search, according to the latest Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) annual report to Congress. That established a new annual record for domestic counterintelligence and counterterrorism surveillance and search activity.”
From the School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, the transcript of oral arguments, March 29, 2005 (55 pages, PDF), in MGM v. Grokster. [The Peer-to-Peer Weblog]
eWeek reports on a class action lawsuit against DirectRevenue claiming that the company “deceptively downloaded harmful and offensive software…” [PDF via Broadbandreports.com] Related reference, Comparison of Unwanted Software Installed by P2P Programs, Benjamin Edelman
From News.com, Supreme Court may redefine file swapping From AP, High Court Hears Arguments on File-Sharing Technology From SCOTUSBlog, Court conflicted over file-swapping From Technology Daily, Attorneys for the entertainment industry and file-sharing companies square off in a pivotal intellectual property case From the New York Times, Justices Seem Responsive to Arguments on File Sharing …
From the New York Times, A Supreme Court Showdown for File Sharing. Related references
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, this commentary, available free: Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress: “Commenting on a case that pits entertainment companies against peer-to-peer program developers, which is scheduled for argument in the Supreme Court next week, Doron Ben-Atar, a professor of history at Fordham University, writes that it is impossible to contain the …
