The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently announced that it will move to “in-house publishing” of its opinions. According to the press release, “Court staff now manage the process of converting opinions from the original word processing documents into Adobe PDF files, which are then uploaded onto the website, where…
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Our daily opinion summary writers have pulled a few opinions of note for you to check out this week. If you’re interested in signing up for our free summaries or subscribing to various summary feeds, you can do so here. Cellco Partnership v. FCC, US DC Cir. (12/04/12) Communications Law,…
This week in Justia’s Featured Dockets: Ericsson Inc. et al v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., et al., (US District Court, E.D. Texas) Ericsson Inc. et al v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., et al., (US District Court, E.D. Texas) In both these lawsuits, Ericsson is suing Samsung in a…
It appears that court opinions in FDSys are being indexed by the search engines now. If you’ll recall, the GPO announced last year that it was importing opinions from some federal courts into its centralized database (FDSys). In theory, this means that users would be able to search across a…
Below are a couple of interesting opinions our Daily Summary writers have picked out for you this week. Newton v. LePage, US 1st Cir. (11/28/12) Civil Rights, Constitutional Law At issue in this case was whether the governor of Maine violated the First Amendment by removing a large state-owned mural,…
California Watch, part of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has a post this week about the relative costs and revenue of PACER. We’ve talked about the problems with PACER fees and the impediments to access before, and it is certainly a familiar topic to those of us in the…
Check out the latest crop of featured cases from Justia's Dockets. Hank Azaria v. Craig Bierko et al., (US District Court, C.D. California) Actor Hank Azaria, well-known for his voice actor roles in "The Simpsons" television show, filed a copyright lawsuit seeking declaratory relief against actor Craig Bierko in a…
I'm sure most of our readers are familiar with Justia's Civil Dockets, a section on our site which allows users to search through civil dockets filed in the US Federal District and Appellate Courts since 2004. What I'm not sure about is whether folks realize that on a weekly basis…
Dawson Farms v. Risk Management Agency, US 8th Cir. (11/7/12) Agriculture Law, Government & Administrative Law Dawson Farms challenged the RMA's denial of its crop-insurance claim alleging loss due to "tuber rot" in stored potatoes. A final agency review affirmed the RMA's denial of Dawson Farms' claim, finding that the…
As Hurricane Sandy moves toward New Jersey and Delaware, we thought it might be useful to pull some resources for those folks living in the projected path of the storm, as we did last year for Hurricane Irene. We hope that everyone in the area has found safe shelter and has…