The United States Supreme Court issued four opinions this morning, one of which is receiving significant press coverage. That case is United States v. Jones (10-1259). The Government obtained a search warrant allowing it to install a GPS tracking device…
Posts Tagged ‘courts’
Chief Justice Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics Procedures
03
Jan
“Some observers have recently questioned whether the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct for United States Judges should apply to the Supreme Court. I would like to use my annual report this year to address that issue, as well as some…
Chief Justice Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics Procedures
03
Jan
“Some observers have recently questioned whether the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct for United States Judges should apply to the Supreme Court. I would like to use my annual report this year to address that issue, as well as some…
Televising SCOTUS Proceedings: Serious Issues While Tossing in a Cynical 2-Cents Perspective and a Bit of Power Broker History
14
Dec
On Dec. 5, 2011, S. 1945 was tossed in the bill hopper (OK, I’m old school!), quickly read twice, because, well, the text really is brief, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings were held by the Subcommittee…
Televising SCOTUS Proceedings: Serious Issues While Tossing in a Cynical 2-Cents Perspective and a Bit of Power Broker History
14
Dec
On Dec. 5, 2011, S. 1945 was tossed in the bill hopper (OK, I’m old school!), quickly read twice, because, well, the text really is brief, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings were held by the Subcommittee…
Short Takes On The News: Law Schools and The Supreme Court
24
Oct
Robert V. Ward Jr., Dean of the University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth School Of Law, resigned at the end of last week citing health reasons. There are some questions hovering over the resignation due to an audit of University credit card…
Will the PACER Fee Increase Change Your Research Habits?
19
Sep
Erika Wayne is conducting a quick survey on Legal Research Plus here. [JH]
Time to Use RECAP Instead of PACER?
16
Sep
As a quick follow-up to Mark Giangrande’s earlier post about PACER’s fee increase, it seems worth noting that under the new fee structure infrequent PACER users get a bit of a break as long as they do not download 150…
PACER Fees Going Up
14
Sep
Public access to federal court docket materials is going up from 8 cents a page to 10 cents a page. As the Judicial Conference puts it: In separate action, the Conference responded to inflationary pressures by increasing, effective November 1,…
