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
This guide provides an overview of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). It discusses the FSIA’s purpose and scope of application, and it reviews the jurisdictional, procedural, and evidentiary questions most likely to arise at the outset of litigation.
The Southern District of New York's summer 2006 Milton Pollack Fellow prepared this report on how the district court handled terrorism cases. The research is based in part on interviews with judges who presided over the cases.
This follow-up to Special Needs Offenders: Introduction to Cyber Crime (September 2000) updates the field on federal legislative and law enforcement news related to cyber crime and cyber terrorism.