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FOIA Court Challenges Up 27% in FY 2011
The FOIA Project has just announced that FOIA court challenges were up 27% over last year. The release states: “The recently completed 2011 fiscal year saw 378 court challenges to the withholding of...
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“We don’t know what it is that they’re not putting online”
According to a new report from the Reynolds Journalism Institute, reporters regularly turn to government (Federal, State and Local) websites for data needed in their stories. David Herzog writes on the...
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Google Fresh
Announced today on the Official Google Blog: Google is bringing you ‘fresher’ search results. Based on changes in their ranking algorithm, approximately 35 percent of searches will be impacted (or made...
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Selling Others’ Briefs, Illustrated
To better illustrate some of the points made by Paul in his posting Selling others’ Briefs, Bryan L. Jarrett (our former student and now an associate at Jones Day) has given us permission to post two...
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Finding Solicitor General Briefs (for free)
Updated Quite a few of us were trying to unravel a few mysterious (to us, at least) citations in the DOJ letter “RE: Physician Hospitals of America v. Sebelius, No. 11-40631.” We know now that they...
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Florida Democratic Party Lawsuit over Early Voter Wait Times – Case Documents
The Florida Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit in federal court regarding the delays early voter were facing at the polls in Florida. For more about this litigation, see the New York Times blog post...
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Get the Reading Bug, Not Bugs from Reading….
An article in today’s New York Times, “A Dark and Itchy Night,” describes a new bed bug problem: library books. “bedbugs have discovered a new way to hitchhike in and out of beds: library books. It...
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A New Supplemental Series of Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Opinions Now...
From the Department of Justice website: “The first volume of a new supplemental series of OLC opinions (Op. O.L.C. Supp.) is available in its entirety as a PDF in the electronic reading room. As...
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Oral Arguments on CourtListener!
Great news from our friends at CourtListener…. The CourtListener site is now adding oral arguments to the project, and users can now search for oral arguments and even get email alerts based on words...
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Final Incorporation by Reference Rule Implements Recommendation 2011-5
From the ACUS: Final Incorporation by Reference Rule Implements Recommendation 2011-5: “Today, the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) published its final rule on incorporation by reference. See...
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