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    2004

    December
    -Sentencing Commission Hearings Continue Debate on Guidelines
    -Congress Approves Funding for Courts
    -ECI for 2005
    -Budget Cuts Leave 6 Percent of Federal Court Jobs Vacant
    -Courthouses with Space Emergencies Funded
    -108th Legislative Session Disappoints
    -Places of Holding Court OK’d
    -Law Libraries Mix Online with Hard Copy to Ease Access, Cut Costs
    -Special Masters in the Federal Courts
    -Living On Borrowed Time
    -New Chairs of Budget Committee Selected
    -Siegel to Retire
    -Commission Appointments Confirmed
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    November
    -Judiciary Appeals to Congress
    -Space Needs and Standards Under Scrutiny in Cost-Containment Climate
    -What Now?
    -District Courts To Refill Jury Wheels
    -Grants Fuel Local IT Initiatives
    -Officers See PDAs As Latest Tool to Increase Efficiency
    -A Penny Saved
    -An Interview with Judge Marjorie O. Rendell, (3rd Cir.)
    -Director Honored by NCBJ
    -Justice and Native American Journalism Conference
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    October
    -Lame Duck Session Planned for November
    -Conference Adopts Cost-Containment Plan in Wake of Limited Congressional Funding; Continues Push for Court Funds
    -Year’s Worst-Ever Storms Don’t Spare Federal Courts
    -Friends of Judiciary Honored
    -Electronic Access Available to Criminal Case Files
    -Legislation Waits for November
    -Workload Grows for Officers in Probation and Pretrial Services
    -Interview: New Chair Talks About U.S. Sentencing Commission Post-Blakely
    -PSI Shell Team Wins 2004 Director's Award
    -Judicial Conference of the United States
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    September
    -Teleworking Brings Office Home
    -Chief Justice Appeals for Funding Exemption for Judiciary
    -Exemption Imperative Says Judicial Conference Resolution 2004 Director's Awards Recognize Record Number
    -New Appointments Announced for Judicial Conference Chairs
    -Study Says Sentencing Tool Accurate
    -An Interview with FJC Director Rothstein
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    August
    -Blakely Roils Waters of Federal Sentencing
    -Is Congress Listening?
    -Financial Plan Includes Cost-Containment Proposals
    -CJA Payments To Continue
    -Representations On Rise
    -Countdown Begins to End of 108th
    -USSC Chair A Recess Appointment
    -To BAP or Not to BAP
    -Congress Approves Three of Four Courthouse Projects for FY 2005
    -Case Weights Get Update
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    July
    -Judiciary's Budget Moves Forward in Uphill Budget Battle
    -Methamphetamine Hits The Heartland
    -Commission Recommends Changes in Sentencing and Incarceration
    -New E-Discovery Rule Amendments Proposed
    -Pro Bono Program Flourishes In Northern District of Illinois
    -First Nationwide Financial System Nears Completion
    -Committee Determines Course of Study
    -A Law Professor's Watch on Judicial Accountability and Independence
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    June
    -A Split Court? Texarkana Sits on the Line
    -Hatch Warns Hard Freeze Would Cripple Judiciary
    -Return to Comity Urged by Archer
    -Federal Courts Improvement Bill Introduced in Senate
    -Sealed Settlements Relatively Rare in Federal Court
    -Probation Officers Helping Offenders Get Back on Their Feet
    -Tragedy Averted by Attentive Probation Officers Public Education Needed on Bankruptcy System and Fiscal Management
    -Sculptural Presence In Oregon
    -Fellows Named for 2004-2005 Term
    -Committee Reaches Out with Guidance on Ethical Conduct
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    May
    -Where the Money Goes
    -Judges Who Were Clerks of Court Bring Special Perspective to Bench
    -FBA Urges Congress to Fund Judiciary
    -Call for Scientific Experts Answered by CASE
    -Program Brings ADR Experts to Courts
    -Devitt Award Recipient Announced
    -Hopes For Legislatively Productive Year Fade
    -Hearing Held on Unpublished Opinions
    -Thad Cochran U.S. Bankruptcy Courthouse
    -Costs of Incarceration and Supervision
    -Chief Justice Appoints Committee To Evaluate Judicial Discipline System
    -"We The People" Contest Celebrates Constitution
    -Committee Chair is Link to Magistrate Judges' System
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    April
    -Judiciary Plans for Worst, Presses for Funding
    -Judicial Conference Acts on Electronic Access
    -Federal Judges "Courageous," Says Justice Kennedy
    -Courts Losing Temporary Judgeships, Lose Fight to Manage Workload
    -Proposed Pre-Service Training Program Marks Significant Change for System
    -Website Connects Future Law Clerks and Judges
    -Courthouse Plan Revised in Face of Shortfall
    -Justice and Journalism
    -Brown V. Board of Education Exhibit
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    March
    -Judicial Business of the Federal Courts
    -As Workload and Resources Head in Opposite Directions
    -Hinojosa Nominated to Chair U.S.S.C.
    -NCSC Launches Search for New President
    -Pilot Program Looks at On-line Transcripts
    -Good Behavior Rewarded
    -Website Offers Community for Local Initiatives
    -Interview - Austere Budget
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    February
    -Federal Judges Share Memories of Historic Civil Rights Victory
    -In Their Own Words
    -FY 2004 Appropriations Finally OK'd; But Courts Still Face Fiscal Threat
    -Courthouse Funding Squeezes Through in Final Conference
    -Sentencing Commission Chair Resigns
    -Judge Choy Honored
    -Outside Earned Income Ceiling Increases
    -A Call for More Communication
    -"Mother May I" No Longer in Courts' Vocabulary
    -Bankruptcy Judges Warn Young Consumers about Credit Card Debt
    -Judicial Milestones
    -Judicial Boxscore

    January
    -2003 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary