In late 2017, the Committee on Defender Services (Committee) asked the Federal Judicial Center to generate a white paper on the potential effects on the federal courts and the defender services program of a determination that states have “opted in” to special expedited procedures created by the A
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.
This report summarizes the results of a Center survey of district court judges to assess the frequency with which jurors used social media to communicate during trials and deliberations in the past two years, and to identify strategies for curbing this behavior.
Assembled here are jury questionnaires used by federal judges in criminal prosecutions in national security cases. Also included are prepared preliminary remarks for prospective jurors in some cases.