Thanks to Carole Levitt, President of Internet for Lawyers, for alerting us to the “key steps to improve public access to feferal courts by increasing the availability of court openions and expanding the services and reducing the costs for many users of the Public Access to Electronic Court Records (PACER)…
Two days ago I posted information on this blog related to the New York Court of Appeals decision (Maron v. Silver, 16 ‘ Larabee v. Governor, 7 ; Chief Judge v. Governor, 18) addressing judicial compensation in that state within the framework of separation of powers. Today I have learned…
February 23, 2010 In a 5 – 1 decision the New York Court of Appeals found that the legislature and the executive branches had undermined the independence of the judicial branch by tying judges pay raises to unrelated legislation, including bills to raise legislators own salaries, thereby violating the separation…
From the New York Times February 17-18, 2010. The following are two very informative profiles from the New York Times: The first profile contains both information about Hon. Jonathan Lippman and emphasizes the impact he has had during his first year as Chief Judge of the New York Court of…
Volume 2 Number 1 January 7, 2010 State Courts & the Economy is an e-newsletter published by the National Center for State Courts. Contents of this issue: Courts Starting to Bear the Brunt of the Recession Close Some Courthouses, But Build New Ones, Too? Budget Cuts Go to Court State-by-State…
Includes both useful resources and a request for information from the courts. Nora Sydow reports that the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has recently developed a Social Media and the Courts web module. Included in this module is a state links page that links to courts that are using…
Yesterday January 19, 2010 New York State Governor David Paterson proposed a 2010-11 Executive Budget that according to a Press Release from the Governor’s Office “makes significant spending reductions in order to eliminate a $7.4 billion deficit and institutes key reforms to put New York on the road to economic…
Hon. Randall T. Shepard, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, has been selected as the recipient of the Sixth Annual Dwight D. Opperman Award for Judicial Excellence. Chief Justice Shepard was chosen by a three-member panel: Hon. Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of…
Letter: Remarkable Work By State Judges* In “10 Suggestions for Court Reform,” New York City Corporation Counsel Michael A. Cardozo notes that our nation’s state courts are in crisis. Many of society’s most intractable problems end up in the state courts, particularly during economic downturns. In New York, this has…
TITLE: Gay Families and the Courts SUBTITLE: The Quest for Equal Rights AUTHOR: Susan Gluck Mezey PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009 PUBLISHER: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 300 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-6219-0 (Paper) 0-7425-6218-2 (Cloth) PROBABLE PRICE: $27.95 (Paper) $70.00 (Cloth) Mezey (political science–Loyola Chicago) is an established author in…