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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 …
“This site provides the text in web and PDF formats to the FDIC Proposed Rules, Final Rules, Statements of Policy, and Notices published in the Federal Register. In addition, this site provides a means for the public to comment on FDIC proposed rules and regulations.”
Protection of Security-Related Information, September 27, 2006. “The terrorist attacks of September 11 prompted a reevaluation of how to balance public access to information with the need for safety and security. The accumulation of confidential business information from owners and operators of the nation’s critical infrastructures, 85% of which is reportedly owned by the private …
AFL-CIO Political Portal Political Info Site and News Tracker: “The political portal was designed to consolidate and disseminate political information about 2006 races, legislative information, key dates, and other relevant data.” Links to documents in the following categories: State Pages; Election 2006; Labor Links & Resources; Voter Info; and Campaign Finance
From askSam: “Search and analyze the FDA Recalls and News. This database is updated daily with the latest releases direct from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”
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.”
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe: “In a 27-page report written for lawmakers [see related info below], the research service said the Bush administration is using signing statements as a means to slowly condition Congress into accepting the White House’s broad conception of presidential power, which includes a presidential right to ignore laws he believes are unconstitutional.” …
Follow-up to previous posting, Hastert Issues Preliminary Report on Ex-Rep Foley’s Improper Email Exchanges, these related government documents and news. H.RES. 1065, Raising a question of the privileges of the House. Sponsor: Rep Pelosi, Nancy [CA-8] (introduced 9/29/2006): “Directs the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to: (1) …
Press release, October 4, 2006: “Significant growth in newspaper Web usage is continuing to redefine the traditional newspaper audience, according to results released today by the Newspaper Association of America in its fall 2006 Newspaper Audience Database (NAdbase) report. The report shows that during the first half of 2006, unique visitors to newspaper Web sites …
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: California “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia C. Dunn and four other defendants, alleging they committed criminal offenses related to the use of false pretenses to access individuals’ phone records during the company’s probe of boardroom leaks to the media.” Felony Complaint (7 pages, PDF) Supporting …
“The Population Reference Bureau’s 2006 World Population Data Sheetp rovides new information on the forces shaping migration rates around the world. As long as high birth rates and poverty continue to place pressure on populations, migrants will see advantages to moving to countries with more resources and greater opportunities…The United States is set to reach …
