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- Improving government transparency online: citizen-engaging technology can make government data available online, easy to access, and understandable
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Democracy is founded on the principle that the moral authority of government derives from the consent of the governed. That consent is not particularly meaningful, however, unless it is informed. When government makes decisions in secret, opportunity for corruption increases and government's accountability to the people decreases....
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Debate precedes vote on St. Louis Circuit Court's individualized
- A month of animated debate preceded the vote, with some members of the bar expressing alarm at the idea of individualized dockets. * Attorneys strongly resisted a new system, saying they preferred the "predictability" of a centralized docket, where one judge hears all pre-trial motions. *...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- St. Louis Circuit Court individual docket approved; starts Jan. 1
- With questions still remaining on the discretionary power of the presiding judge, St. Louis Circuit Court judges approved a set of rules for the individual docket system rolling out Jan. 1. The issue has produced spirited debate over the past few months: supporters pointed to the consistancy...
- Research articles 2006-12-11
- Kansas City Legal Briefs: October 2, 2006
- Judge Dean retires Friday marked the end of more than 17 years on the bench for Judge K. Preston Dean, who officially retired. Dean, who announced his retirement in early August, will still occasionally fill in on the criminal A docket through the end of the...
- Research articles 2006-10-02
- Dark justice
- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press finds that during the last five years more than 450 criminal cases in the U.S. District Court in D.C. were conducted in complete secrecy. These cases were not just sealed but off the docket completely, leaving no record of what happened or...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- Citizen participation in rulemaking: past, present, and future.
- ABSTRACT Administrative law scholars and governmental reformers argue that advances in information technology will greatly expand public participation in regulatory policymaking. They claim that e-rulemaking, or the application of new technology to administrative rulemaking, promises to transform a previously insulated process into one...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- E-rulemaking: bringing data to theory at the Federal Communications Commission.
- ABSTRACT This Article examines the theoretical promise of e-rulemaking with an examination of data about all filings at the Federal Communications Commission FCC from 1999 to 2004. The Article first reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on e-rulemaking. It then analyzes a dataset...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Library.
- Haworth Press (Binghamton, NY) has published Federal Regulatory Research, a book that presents sample pathfinders to help law librarians access and navigate through federal agency laws, regulations, interpretative releases, memoranda and dockets. Subtitled "Selected Agency Knowledge Paths," the book locates and evaluates legal resources with...
- Research articles 2004-09-30
- Extension of request for written information regarding scheduled operations at Chicago OHare International Airport.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 August 2004-US DOT: Extension of request for written information regarding scheduled operations at Chicago OHare International AirportC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08112004 ACTION: Extension of request for information. SUMMARY: This action extends the period during which interested ...
- Research articles 2004-08-12
- An Inactive Asbestos Docket: Understanding The Risks.
- The drumbeat for a Congressional solution to the asbestos crisis has never been louder. The reason for such noise is likely the result of several factors taking place simultaneously - the woes of asbestos becoming a staple in the mainstream press, including frequent mentions of studies predicting that the total...
- Research articles 2003-04-16
- Judicial lobbying and the politics of judicial structure: An examination of the Judiciary Act of 1925*
- This article examines the circumstances surrounding the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1925. It considers how the Court was able to lobby successfully for a measure that significantly expanded the Court's certiorari jurisdiction and, consequently, its policymaking authority. What factors best explain the success of this effort? And why...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- NTSB schedules public investigative hearing on crash of American Airlines Flight 587 for October.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 September 2002-US NTSB: NTSB schedules public investigative hearing on crash of American Airlines Flight 587 for October C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09192002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Transportation Safety Board will convene its public investigative hearing on...
- Research articles 2002-09-19
- NBWA outlines 2002 legislative priorities - National Beer Wholesalers' Association - Brief Article
- On the eve of the annual NBWA/Brewers Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., the National Beer Wholesalers Association has announced a docket of legislative priorities to be addressed with Congress. For the second session of the 107th Congress, the NBWA is seeking to put the spotlight on several key issues,...
- Research articles 2002-04-08
- Clicking on Courts to Dig up Dockets.(PACER, CourtLink Classic and CaseStream services)
- Court dockets are slowly moving the world of the Web, providing new options for information professionals. A court docket is created by the clerk of the court, and it contains all the pertinent details about the current case. It is updated with a notation...
- Research articles 2001-08-01
- need for sound judgment in analyzing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement actions, The
- I agree completely with most of the issues raised in Mark Atlas's article "Rush to Judgment" in this issue (Atlas 2001). First, environmental justice is an important research topic that is too often addressed by writers with preconceived notions about the presence or absence of discrimination in environmental protection. Second,...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Safe and sound judgment
- Many points raised by Dr. Evan J. Ringquist's response in this issue already are addressed in my article, so readers should simply review its relevant portions. Just as he indicated that space constraints limited his response, I am limited to focusing on his comments that are less fully addressed in...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- News Briefs
- * Industry day. For its proclaimed second annual industry day, the Federal Aviation Administration FAA will host a one-day symposium Tuesday, Feb. 29 on Controller Pilot Data Link Communications CPDLC. The technology is seen as a promising means of alleviating airspace congestion and resulting flight delays (see ASW, Dec. 13,...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
- Religious-persecution bill buried by Senate
- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 23 apparently killed, at least for the rest of the summer, a bill designed to penalize countries that engage in religious persecution. The committee removed the bill, sponsored by Don Nickles (R., Okla.), from its docket for consideration after it became apparent that...
- Research articles 1998-08-12
- Looking ahead to the new term. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- The US Supreme Court's 1994-95 term will continue the trend of slender dockets which the court has established during the past decade, but the presence of cases involving a number of key social issues on the docket will be a break from recent years. These issues include affirmative action, term...
- Research articles 1994-12-01
- Asbestos stopgaps useful as Congress feuds.(Perspectives)
- Byline: Angela R. Elbert The asbestos litigation mess appears no closer to ending with the apparent failure of the latest congressional attempt to set up a trust fund to compensate victims of asbestos-related illness. Two gap-filling measures may Byline: Angela R. Elbert...
- Research articles 2004-08-30
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