Over five years ago, the federal Judiciary looked into the future and saw its rent projected to top $1.2 billion by 2009. Instead, the Judiciary initiated a comprehensive strategy that included sweeping cost- containment measures.
FULL STORY Judge Julie E. Carnes, a district court judge in the Northern District of Georgia, was appointed to the federal bench in 1992. She has been a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Law since 2005, and has served as its chair since 2007.
In the Ocala National Forest, a group of 30 men and women are building trails and park shelters as part of a community service retreat. At the end of the week, part of the group will return to their work in the Middle District of Florida’s Office of Probation and Pretrial Services, and the rest of the group—all offenders—will have fulfilled part of the community service condition of their probation.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved its version of the Judiciary’s fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill in July. The bills are not expected to reach the full House or Senate for a vote this year. Instead, it is highly likely the majority of spending bills will be carried over for action into the new Congress with a new Administration after January 2009.
Eight individuals have been named recipients of the 2008 Director’s Awards, given annually by the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in recognition of the contributions of federal Judiciary members.
Redaction, once a matter of drawing a heavy black line through the words on paper, has changed with the electronic filing of documents. A black bar drawn over the text is no longer enough to block it from view.
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Celebrate Constitution Day — September 17, 2008
Celebrate Constitution Day with a conversation with Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen G. Breyer. In a 37- minute video, the justices talk with a group of high school students about how the Supreme Court decides what the Constitution means, and how judicial interpretation affects not only the outcomes of cases, but democracy and daily life. Their video discussion can be found online on the federal courts’ Educational Outreach pages at www.uscourts.gov/outreach/index.html.
Also new for Constitution Day 2008 is a video on the insights of federal judges on what judicial independence and separation of powers mean to the public. The video is available on the Judiciary’s Educational Outreach pages at www.uscourts.gov/outreach/index.html, and was produced by the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civic Education. Interviews were contributed by the American Bar Association Judicial Division’s National Conference of Federal Trial Judges, chaired by Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn (N.D. Tex.). | ||
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