Beginning in the late 1930s, the US Supreme court abandoned its close scrutiny of federal executive branch agencies and adopted a policy of judicial acquiescence to the federal administrative process which remained in force through the late 1960s. Writing in 1968, public law scholar, Martin Shapiro, aggressive that, at least during the last twenty years the federal court system has devoted the vast bulk of its energies to simply giving legal approval to agency decisions. The essay argues that a new public law risk management model is gradually replacing the public law litigation model in terms of defining the relationship between public administration and the judiciary. Instead upon relying upon the courts to resolve disputes between public agencies and those private interests, the publ...
WASHINGTON - For a year beginning in July, Vanessa Lantin, a law clerk to a Memphis bankruptcy judge, will be one of four national fellows chosen to study the federal courts in Washington. Lantin, 38, was named this week to the first-ever Director's Leadership Program in the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, the federal judiciary's home office in the Thurgood Marshall Building.
Drug rehabilitation is tough, but there are proven methodologies to help addicts kick their habits. No such roadmap exists for what a group of officials in the federal court system in St. Louis is trying to do: help violent ex-offenders kick the gang habit. We're trying to help the fringe, the ones who aren't too far gone, the ones who know the difference between right and wrong and want to get back there," said federal probation officer Michael P. Nicholson, a former St. Louis police officer who developed an expertise in gang activity while he was on the force.
WASHINGTON -- On New Year's Day, Chief Justice John Roberts, pursuant to his duty to report annually on the condition of the federal judiciary, issued a short and persuasive plea. It was lost in the cacophony of political news. Besides, why worry about the judiciary? We have Alexander Hamilton's assurances, from Federalist 78, that the judiciary is "the least dangerous" branch of government. Having "neither force nor will, but merely judgment," it "has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.
In 2003, as the federal court system prepared to beef up its collection of criminal cases on the Internet, broadening access to thousands of documents previously confined to clerks' offices, the U.S. Judicial Conference gave pause to the side effects. "Many of us testified regarding the electronic access policy," Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said.
'Private Bank' Allegedly Helped Customers Hide Assets WASHINGTON, April 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A federal judge in Fayetteville, Ark., has barred Wayne Hicks and his company, My Icis Inc., from operating a private banking system that allegedly helped customers avoid taxes by shielding their identities and other financial transactions from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department announced today. Hicks and My Icis agreed to the injunction order. Hicks is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States.
A group of Occupy St. Louis protesters have decided to fight City Hall through the federal court system. Attorney Maggie Ellinger-Locke said Friday afternoon that she would seek a temporary restraining order barring St. Louis officials from removing the protesters until a hearing could be held before a federal judge next week. Ellinger-Locke, who is representing the protesters for free, said she was on the verge of filing the suit Friday afternoon.
ONE YEAR AGO, Arizona's governor signed into law a measure cracking down on illegal immigration. Since then, the state's tourism industry has been pummeled, residents have left and boycotts have exacerbated the economic impact of the recession there. All of this, and the law never even fully took effect. A federal judge declared certain sections unconstitutional, leaving the entire law mired in the federal court system.
Despite agreement on both sides that a 44-year-old school desegregation lawsuit should be dismissed, a federal judge Thursday said the request is premature and that Shelby County Schools has more work to do. In a 62-page opinion, U.S. Dist. Court Judge Bernice Donald said the county has achieved "unitary systems" for staff, transportation and facilities, which are no longer racially identifiable, but that more needs to be done in areas of extracurricular activities, student assignment and faculty integration.
An increase in US business bankruptcies and the expansion of entity coverage in directors & officers (D&O) policies is having a particularly troubling, yet unintended consequence: creating the vulnerability of the bankruptcy estate "hijacking" the policy's proceeds, putting corporate directors and officers at risk, in spite of coverage. US business bankruptcy filings increased 52% from 2008 to 2009, according to the federal court system's fiscal year statistics. There are several D&O policy provisions that directors and officers and their insurance agents or brokers should look for to help ensure that the policy will remain in force even in bankruptcy and do what it was originally intended to do -- protect the personal assets of directors and officers. Too often, a D&O p...
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