http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/index.cfm The Monthly Newsletter of the Federal Courts 19 Dec 2008 20:32:44 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article01_1.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article02.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article03.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article04.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article05.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article06.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article07.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/article08.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT Judicial Milestones for December 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/milestones.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT Judicial Boxscore as of December 1, 2008 http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-12/boxscore.cfm 19 Dec 2008 16:00:01 GMT The American Institute of Architects and a jury of representatives from justice, architectural and government sectors, select the top four justice facilities demonstrating quality of form, functionality and solutions to complex justice design issues. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article01.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT In September 1998, the Judicial Conference authorized "an experimental program of electronic access for the public to court information..." From a dozen participating courts, PACER has grown to include all bankruptcy, district and appellate courts- growing from 9,000 to 900,000 registered accounts by 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article02.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT The book Judge Abdul Saboor Hashimi is writing may help shape his country's legal system. From May to August 2008, Judge Hashimi spent four months at the Federal Judicial Center with the intent to learn more about the U.S. criminal trial process. He is now writing the first benchbook for Afghan Judges on how to prepare for and conduct criminal trials. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article03.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT While most are feeling some anxiety with the current state of our economy, not all in the Judiciary are quite as worried. That's because twenty-five federal courts currently participate in the Court Registry Investment System which pools money from individual court accounts and deposits in the U.S. Treasury in the form of Treasury bills. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article04.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT Sentence reductions are under way as 71% of applications are approved in response to retroactive sentencing guidelines which went into effect in March 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article05.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT H. Thomas Wells Jr., president of the American Bar Association and partner and founding member at Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., in Birmingham, Ala., shares his thoughts on rule of law, bipartisan judicial commissions and judicial vacancies. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/article06.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT Judicial Milestones for November 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/milestones.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT Judicial Boxscore as of November 1, 2008 http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-11/boxscore.cfm 25 Nov 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article01.cfm For years, attorneys had to spend countless hours reviewing millions of pages of documents in order to prevent an “attorney-client privileged” document from being accidentally released. The passage of S. 2450 by Congress changes that– becoming the first rule of evidence relating to privilege Congress has enacted in 30 years since the Rules Enabling Act was passed. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article01.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02_1.cfm Judge Dennis Cavanaugh has chaired the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Magistrate Judges System since 2006. He was a U.S. magistrate judge for the District of New Jersey from 1993 to 2000, when he was appointed to the federal bench as a U.S. district judge in the District of New Jersey. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02_1.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02a.cfm U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Palermo in the Southern District of Florida and U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Komives in the Eastern District of Michigan, each taking their oath of office in early 1971, share their intimate knowledge of the magistrate judges system— having served on the bench for its entire history. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02a.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02b.cfm Take a look at the milestones of U.S. Magistrate Judges from the signing of the Federal Magistrates Act in 1968 to this year's 40th anniversary. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02b.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02c.cfm Last fiscal year, U.S. magistrate judges disposed of a total of 948,086 matters in the courts. View a chart illustrating how their workload contribution to the U.S. district courts breaks down. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02c.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02d.cfm Congress passed and the President has signed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep government funded and running through March 6, 2009. The CR will fund agencies, including the Judiciary, at FY 2008 levels until March. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article02d.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article03.cfm It’s the first rule of evidence relating to privilege that Congress has enacted in the 30 years since the Rules Enabling Act was passed. The new Federal Rule of Evidence, Rule 502, facilitates discovery and reduces its costs. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article03.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article04.cfm “We have resources available in the federal courts with our senior and other judges who are willing to take intercircuit assignments,” said Judge J. Frederick Motz (D. Md.). “We owe it to the public to make the most effective use of those resources.” http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article04.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article05.cfm The Judiciary’s new Decision Support System gives probation and pretrial services officers access to a veritable warehouse of data, with an array of tools to easily analyze and report the information. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article05.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article06.cfm Recipients of the 2008 Administrative Office Exemplary Service Awards made noteworthy achievements in support of the federal courts. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/article06.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/milestones.cfm Judicial Milestones for October 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/milestones.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/boxscore.cfm Judicial Boxscore as of October 1, 2008 http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-10/boxscore.cfm 24 Oct 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article01.cfm In furtherance of its aggressive cost containment efforts, the Judicial Conference adopted at its September meeting a policy for senior trial judges to share courtrooms in new construction. In addition, the Conference took steps to develop a courtroom sharing policy for magistrate judges, to study an appropriate policy for sharing courtrooms by non-senior district judges in large courthouses, and to study courtroom use in bankruptcy courts. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article01.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article02_1.cfm When she was named Director of the Federal Judicial Center in 2004, Judge Barbara Rothstein had no idea of the depth of talent at the Center. Four years later, she's focusing that talent to serve a changing federal court system. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article02_1.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article03.cfm Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., has appointed six new Judicial Conference Committee chairs and extended the terms of two current chairs. They'll head committees that address and advise the Judicial Conference on a wide variety of issues. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article03.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article04.cfm Who gives the best advice to judges on how to pull information from the case management/electronic case files system, work with hyperlinks in opinions, create events calendars, or use e-mail? Turns out, it’s other judges. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article04.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article05.cfm The Victim Notification System (VNS), an automated system used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to notify more than 1.5 million registered federal crime victims of developments in their cases, will add more data on court events thanks to a cooperative venture with the federal courts. The Judicial Conference approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the DOJ to develop an interface between the federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system and DOJ’s VNS. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article05.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article06.cfm On behalf of the Judicial Conference in July, Judge Mark R. Kravitz testified in opposition to the bill, the Sunshine in Litigation Act, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. The Conference opposes H.R. 5884 and its companion bill in the Senate, S. 2449, because they bypass the Rules Enabling Act process established by Congress. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article06.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article07.cfm Linda Greenhouse retired in mid-July following a 40-year career with the New York Times covering the U.S. Supreme Court and, on occasion other aspects of the federal Judiciary. She sat down recently with the AO's Dick Carelli to share some observations on the federal courts. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article07.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article08.cfm Provisions to enhance the recruitment and retention of well-qualified attorneys to serve the public as federal defenders are included in a bill recently signed into law by the President. H.R. 4137, the “Higher Education Opportunity Act,” became Pub. L. No. 110-315 on August 14, 2008, with a provision extending to federal defenders the ability to participate in the cancellation of Perkins student loans. The Judicial Conference proposed the provision. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/article08.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/milestones.cfm Judicial Milestones for September 2008. http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/milestones.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/boxscore.cfm Judicial Boxscore as of September 1, 2008 http://www.uscourts.gov/ttb/2008-09/boxscore.cfm 24 Sep 2008 16:00:01 GMT