The Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management has come out with "Proposed Model Jury Instructions" on "The Use of Electronic Technology to Conduct Research on or Communicate about a Case".  They follow: Before Trial: You, as jurors, must decide this case bas ...

The Asia Business Media Blog just did a post, entitled, "China's attitude hift," on a James McGregor talk Woodward attended today in Hong Kong. McGregor, a "journalist, media entrepreneur, investor and long-time resident of China gave a sobering talk" on how China is beginning to treat foreign b ...

Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs.  The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number ...

"Senate finally approves judge": The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey has a news update that begins, "The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a Newark federal judge's promotion to the nation's second-highest court Tuesday, five months after the Judiciary Committee decided unanimously to support his ...

Earlier today, President Obama made a surprise appearance at the daily White House press briefing. (Watch it and read the full transcript on DKTV or view it at the bottom of this post.) Here's a brief summary of some of the major topics he covered: Bipartisanship: During the briefing, President Ob ...

This just in: "Mr. Shelby announced Monday evening that he would reverse course on most of the 70 nominees and allow their confirmations to proceed." So maybe I was wrong about bullies being impervious to being shamed, though I wonder if he is responding more to imprecations from Mitch McConnell t ...

http://www.abanow.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ABANow/wp-content/uploads/resolution-pdfs/MY2010/summaries/104-adopted.pdfThe accompanying 21-page full report on the reasons for the recommendations is available at: http://www.abanow.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/ABANow/wp-content/uploads/resolut ...

The administrators of Wind Hellas, the Greek telecoms group that became the UK's largest pre-pack administration, have begun a formal investigation into the deal.

Toyota is coming under fire because more and more agencies are coming out of the woodwork claiming that the car manufacturer knew about unintended acceleration problems in their vehicles years before the recent recalls. The Detroit News reports that State Farm Insurance told federal regulators that ...

During  Estimates hearings of the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee  on Monday (08/02/2010), The Greens Senator Bob Brown raised with the Governor General's Official Secretary (F&PA 44-46), the issue of unsuccessful nominations for honours (446 of 738 nominees or 60% w ...