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Initial Discovery Protocols for Employment Cases Alleging Adverse Action: Report on a Pilot Project to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure

Jason A. Cantone, Emery G. Lee

October 19, 2018

This report is a study of a discovery pilot testing pattern initial disclosures in adverse action employment cases. Compared to a sample of similar cases, pilot cases did not have shorter disposition times but did have fewer discovery motions.

Patent Pilot Program: Status Update, December 2017

December 29, 2017

Status update provided to the Patent Pilot Program Subcommittee of the Judicial Conference’s Court Administration and Case Management Committee.

Trade Secret Seizure Best Practices Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016

Timothy T. Lau

June 28, 2017

The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA), Pub. L. No. 114-153, became law on May 11, 2016. It amends 18 U.S.C.

Vertical Consolidation of District Court and Bankruptcy Court Clerks' Offices

James B. Haines Jr., Rebecca N. Eyre

April 3, 2017

A report to the Cost-Containment Subcommittee of the Court Administration and Case Management Committee on six districts with a currently consolidated district court and bankruptcy court clerk's office and three districts that at one time consolidated their district court and bankruptcy court cle

Report on Federal–State Court Cooperation: A Survey of Federal Chief District Judges

Jason A. Cantone

April 3, 2017

In 2016, at the request of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal–State Jurisdiction, a survey was sent to all chief federal district judges asking about cooperation with their state judge counterparts.

Patent Pilot Program: Five-Year Report

Margaret S. Williams, Rebecca N. Eyre, Joe S. Cecil

April 1, 2016

The Patent Pilot Program (PPP), a ten-year pilot program addressing the assignment of patent cases in certain U.S. district courts, was established on January 4, 2011, by Pub. L. No. 111-349.

Video Recording Courtroom Proceedings in United States District Courts: Report on a Pilot Project

Molly T. Johnson, Carol L. Krafka, Donna J. Stienstra

March 15, 2016

Review of Scientific Literature on the Reliability of Present Sense Impressions and Excited Utterances

Timothy T. Lau

March 5, 2016

This review of scientific literature regarding the reliability of present sense impressions and excited utterances as it pertains to the Federal Rules of Evidence was presented as a memorandum to the Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence.

Survey of Harm to Cooperators: Final Report

Margaret S. Williams, Donna J. Stienstra, Marvin L. Astrada

February 12, 2016

At the request of the Court Administration and Case Management Committee, the Criminal Law Committee, and the Committee on Defender Service, the FJC surveyed federal district judges, U.S.

Unredacted Social Security Numbers in Federal Court PACER Documents

Joe S. Cecil, George W. Cort, Ashley Mason Springer, Vashty Gobinpersad

October 25, 2015

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