He’s the chair of the renamed Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, and Representative Hank Johnson brings his own experience and insights into the Judiciary to the job.

Thirty-five judges from the five border judicial districts attended recently in Houston a one-day seminar on the increasing violence across the border in Mexico.

Administrative Office Director James C. Duff has written to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to ask that emergency supplemental funding for the Judiciary and the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) be included in the FY 2009 War Supplemental Appropriations Bill now being considered by Congress.

The class members of 2010, like previous law school graduates, will seek prestigious federal judicial clerkships. Over the next weeks and months, they’ll send out hundreds of applications and references to federal judges with clerkship openings in the hopes they’ll be among the lucky chosen few.

Over the past decade the federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system has dramatically streamlined and simplified federal court case filing, management, and access. Now, a group of federal judges and court staff is thinking about the future of that system.

U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger (M.D. Fla.) knows forms.His group is responsible for updating or creating the national forms available to the courts, bar, and public.

Two new Fellows join the Program for 2009-2010, while two current Supreme Court Fellows will continue in their current assignments.

Seventy-nine percent of all officers have at least six years on the job, and more than half have advanced degrees, the survey shows.

The federal Judiciary sent its annual report on compliance with the 2002 E-Government Act to Congress this month.

In May, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder stopped by for a “get acquainted” meeting with the chief judges of the Judiciary’s district courts.

In May, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania observed Law Day and Juror Appreciation Day by hosting high school students from 50 local schools.