Although he’s been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care, President Donald Trump has a big opportunity to reshape another branch of government outside his control: the federal judiciary. He has already moved ...

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The federal judiciary’s website, uscourts.gov, has a new look, improved functionality and Web pages that adjust automatically for optimal use on all sizes and types of devices. Other features include improved court locators that helps users find their local court ...

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CINCINNATI — Federal appeals courts covering nearly half the United States will soon hear arguments on whether gay and lesbian couples have a right to marry, part of a slew of cases putting pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to ...

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While filings at the trial level of federal courts declined in the last fiscal year, appellate cases were on the uptick, according to the latest data submitted by federal court officials to the U.S. Judicial Conference. The data covers the ...

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The short-term crisis of sequestration’s impact on the courts may have been averted in the “fiscal cliff” deal a week ago. Controlling costs in 2013 — through streamlining services, sharing of administrative court services, curbing rental costs and other means ...

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Social media is virtually everywhere, but emailing, blogging, tweeting and the like won’t be done from a jury deliberation room. A juror may not communicate with anyone about a case on a cell phone, BlackBerry, iPad or other electronic device, ...

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There are problems with the nation’s federal court system. And according to Justice Antonin Scalia, one of those problems is a flood of petty criminal cases — better suited for state courts — that have turned the U.S. Supreme Court ...

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Thanks to staff layoffs and a judicial vacancy, lawyers filing civil cases in Rochester’s federal court can now expect to wait up to seven months to have a motion heard, and relief is nowhere in sight — together a new ...

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A pilot alternative dispute resolution program in Western New York federal courts will be expanding into the Rochester area. The program, started by Chief Judge William M. Skretny before he was chief judge, has been running in the Buffalo region ...

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The website for the federal judiciary has gotten a makeover. The online home of the federal court system, www.uscourts.gov, has been redesigned to provide better information for lawyers, government officials ...

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Federal courts have rejected immigration laws in other states that aimed for results similar to those prescribed by Arizona’s S1070, but supporters of the Arizona law say they learned a lesson from those court cases and made sure to avoid repeating past mistakes.

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