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Rule Change May Permit Cameras In District Courts In Ninth Circuit, Including EDCA

21 hours ago ago from Eastern District of California Blog

This past week the Ninth Circuit instituted a pilot program to allow the Chief Judge of each district in the circuit to authorize the media to televise civil federal court hearings.  The rule change does not require the consent of the parties for proceedings to be televised.  Cameras are still barred in all criminal cases and civil jury trials.   NYT, 12/18/09 According to the SF Chronicle , N.D. Chief District Judge Vaughn Walker has ...

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Supreme Court to Hear Text Message Privacy Case

7 hours ago ago from AtLaw.org

Last week, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear a case on the privacy of employee text messages, Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. Although the Quon case involves a government employer, it raises a question that comes up all the time in both private and public workplaces: Are there limits to how far employers may go in monitoring their employees' electronic communications? The Quon case got a lot of press when it was initially ...

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Former Bear is a jackrabbit for Eagles - San Francisco Chronicle

15 hours ago ago from Mock Drafts: Mock NFL Draft, Mock NBA Draft - All Sports

Former Bear is a jackrabbit for Eagles - San Francisco Chronicle Former Bear is a jackrabbit for Eagles San Francisco Chronicle Scuttlebutt about Jackson and the fact he fell to the second round left him feeling hurt as he made his decision to enter the NFL draft a year early. ... and more Posted in NFL Draft | "> " onclick="return fbs_click()" target="_blank" class="fb_share_link">Share on Facebook

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Fifth Circuit Says that Mississippi “10 Minutes Too Late” Case is Not Moot; Tells Lower Court to Settle the Issue

22 hours ago ago from Ballot Access News

On December 18, the 5th circuit issued an opinion in Moore v Hosemann, 09-60272, the case filed by Socialist Party presidential candidate Brian Moore last year, when the Mississippi Secretary of State refused to accept his presidential elector paperwork because it was submitted at 5:10 p.m. on the filing deadline. The Secretary of State rejected the paperwork because it arrived ten minutes after he had closed his office. The building itself ...

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Peter Scheer: Parting the judicial robes: CA Courts to permit record-access, cameras in courtroom

17 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

By Peter Scheer The courts in California are often criticized for being out of step with the rest of the country. A willingness among judges to deviate from national orthodoxy is not necessarily a bad thing, however. Just this week the administrative arm of the California Supreme Court adopted a rule providing public access to administrative records of all state courts, making California the first state to adopt a legally enforceable ...

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