The following are some resources for Gall v. US [opinion] and Kimbrough v. US [opinion], both of which addressed issues in federal sentencing:

SCOTUSblog Posts: Commentary: Gall and Appellate Court Transparency, Commentary: A Justice-by-Justice Review of Gall and Kimbrough, Commentary: Winners and Losers in Gall and Kimbrough and Commentary: Gall Advances the Booker Revolution, But Also Leaves Fodder for the Court of Appeals Counter-Revolutionaries.

News Sources: Court Restores Sentencing Powers of Federal Judges [New York Times], Justices OK Latitude on Sentencing [LA Times], and Panel May Ease Crack Cocaine Sentences [AP].

Labels: Federal Courts, Supreme Court

Civil Procedure will never be the same.

First, the rewritten Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect on December 1, 2007. Characterized as comprehensive "style-only" revisions, the changes make style and terminology consistent throughtout the Rules.

Second, amendments to the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure become effective on March 1, 2008. Much less comprehensive than the changes to the Federal Rules, these amendments primarily apply to District Court practice.

Sources: U.S. Courts: Federal Rulemaking; Massachusetts Law Updates

Labels: civil procedure, Federal Courts, Massachusetts Courts

The Federal Circuit is relocating its web page. The notice from the court reads: "The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is relocating its Internet Web page to its own in-house servers. As part of this process, the court's Web page address and domain name will be changed to www.cafc.uscourts.gov on October 1, 2007. The former Web page address and domain name, http://www.fedcir.gov/, will continue to be kept active through December 31, 2007, in order to redirect users to the new address. The new domain name brings the Federal Circuit into conformance with the Web site naming convention used by the other United States Courts of Appeals. Web site authors and others who have created links to pages inside the www.fedcir.gov Web page should change the URL of those links to the new URL on October 1, 2007. Please direct any questions to the CAFC Webmaster at webmaster@cafc.uscourts.gov. We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience during this transition."

Source: Robert Ambrogi's Lawsites

Labels: Federal Courts