July 2008
Vol. 40, Number 7
Vol. 40, Number 7
 
In-depth

The federal trial courts along the nations southwest border are feeling the impact of newly stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws.       FULL STORY

 

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 requires the Judiciary to collect statistics on debtors who meet certain criteria. The first report went to Congress on July 1.

 

Chief Judge Sentelle (D.C. Cir.) and Judge Johnson (D. Wyo.) have been appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference.

 

The Judiciary received $6.52 billion, a 4.5 percent increase over the FY 2008 level.

 

Beginning in October 2008 a new contract to mail more than a billion bankruptcy notices over ten years will save the Judiciary millions of dollars.

 

A scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Federal Judgeship Act of 2008 was suspended in mid-June as Republicans objected to the pace of confirmations for court of appeals judges.

 
Supreme Court Fellows Named for 2008-2009
Four Supreme Court Fellows have been named for the 2008-2009 program. Timothy F. Averill, an administrator and general counsel for the Louisiana Supreme Court, will be assigned to the Administrative Office; Melissa Aubin, a staff attorney for Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Coffin in the District of Oregon, will serve at the Supreme Court; Benjamin McMurray, from the Utah Federal Defenders Office, will be assigned to the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and Shawna Wilson, a senior rule of law advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, will participate in the program at the Federal Judicial Center.

The Supreme Court Fellows Program was founded by Chief Justice Warren Burger to provide fellows a firsthand opportunity to study both the administrative machinery of the federal Judiciary and the dynamics of interbranch relations.
 
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