Fees for Public Access to Court Electronic Records system to increase in AprilDonna Walter
The initial section of the 2024 SPC Work Report provides overall statistics from the SPC and the entire court system. The SPC accepted 21,081 cases and concluded 17,855 cases, representing a year-on-year increase of 54.6% and 29.5%, respectively. These numbers reflect the end of thepilot ...
The Court is signaling government to increase government transparency (within the many limitations imposed) and improve their open government information procedures or risk losing court cases. The behavior of government departments, including on the central level, in dealing with open government information...
Background.In 2017, Congress amended 28 U.S.C. § 1930(a)(6) to drastically increase the quarterly fees payable to the U.S. Trustee in chapter 11 cases, raising the fees from a maximum of $30,000 per quarter per debtor to a maximum of $250,000 per quarter per debtor. These incr...
The measure would also reclassify many government fees as taxes and apply retroactively to any increase approved after Jan. 1, 2022. Opponents also say that would curtail revenue needed by local communities for essential public services, from collecting trash to fightin...
Religious beliefs are occupying an increasing number of challenges to equal protection for LGBT at the U.S. Supreme Court. With Ginsburg gone and Barrett in, the number of such threats will almost certainly increase in the coming years.
A group of 24 state attorneys general said in afriend-of-the-court briefthere has been an increase in public encampments in large and small cities, creating public health and safety issues, and said upholding the 9th Circuit's decision would impinge on state and local governments' ability to...
It noted that since 2017, there has been a 1,000% increase in the number of ghost guns recovered by law enforcement each year. The challengers to ATF's rule also urged the Supreme Court to decide its validity "once and for all." They told the high court in a filing that the provisio...
The Supreme People’s Court is compiling a “Compilation of Common Laws and Regulations in Foreign-related Civil and Commercial Matters” to assist new hires and will increase the training and guidance to improve judicial competence on the application of international treaties. Improving judicial traini...
The Justice Department had told the court that local law enforcement agencies seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, a more than tenfold increase in just five years. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth struck down the...