10A Adopts the Best Practices for Judges in the Settlement and Trial of Cases Involving Unrepresented Litigants in Housing Court. Adopted as Revised 10B Urges Congress to examine the “incident to service” exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. Adopted 10C Urges state, local, and territorial bar associations to adopt…
QUESTION: “I am looking for any courts that have a video system that displays the docket or room assignments for patrons of the court. I looking for any specs that you have in place. For instance are you using LCD TV screens or just normal computer screens. Do you have…
PRESS RELEASE Des Moines, Iowa – Gordon L. Doerfer of Boston, Massachusetts took office as President of the American Judicature Society at the Society’s Annual Meeting in New York on August 7. Doerfer retired last year from the bench after twenty-five years of service on the trial and appellate courts…
From: Quinlan Law Enforcement E-News Alert, August 14, 2008 Question: “Peals was arrested in his garage by a number of Terre Haute, Indiana police officers from the Street Crimes Unit, a unit used to perform special tasks including high-risk arrests, narcotics arrests, and narcotics information gathering. Among these officers were…
From: CIO Insider, August 15, 2008. Posting by Mark Cummuta in CIO: Best Practices The Impact of Globalization on Executive Job Searches “After meeting an Australian business consultant known for his research on globalization, CIO Job Search author Mark Cummuta begins to realize why his search has been so arduous.…
Week ending August 15, 2008 Verdicts Most Plaintiffs Who Reject Settlement Offers Do Worse at Trial Aug 11, 2008, 06:49 am CDT “The gamble of going to trial doesn’t pay off for most plaintiffs, according to a study of more than 2,000 civil suits from 2002 to 2005. Sixty-one percent…
TITLE: Three Generations, No Imbeciles SUBTITLE: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell AUTHOR: Paul A. Lombardo PUBLICATION DATE: October 2008 PUBLISHER: The Johns Hopkins University Press PAGE COUNT: 375 pp . ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9010-9 ISBN-10: 0-8018-9010-1 PRICE: $29.95 Lombardo is an activist law professor who traces a seminal 1927…
The ABA Commission on the American Jury Project is pleased to announce Judge Judith S. Kaye, the Chief Judge of the State of New York, and G. Thomas Munsterman, Director Emeritus of the National Center for State Courts Center for Jury Studies, as the recipients of the 2008 Jury System…
The e-newsletter of the American Library Association ALA.* IFLA Conference showcases Québecois culture “Canada played host to the 74th World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, August 10–14, in Québec. The annual IFLA conference is the largest and most diverse international gathering of…
From: Findlaw Legal Documents, August 12, 2008 Dismissal of CIA Leak Case Affirmed WILSON V. LIBBY “(U.S. D.C. Circuit) – In a suit by Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband alleging that employees in the Office of the Vice President and the State Department violated their constitutional rights by publishing…