 |  _ | Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Classified Information Security Officers, Second Edition
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2013 (Publication) 49 pages
Most courts come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at all, but when they do, they are faced with the dilemma of how to protect government secrets in the context of an otherwise public proceeding. This pocket guide is designed to familiarize judges and court staff with ...(Read more) |
| _ | Capital § 2254 Habeas Cases: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Kristine M. Fox,
2012 (Publication) 28 pages
This pocket guide provides a basic overview of the issues judges can expect to face when assigned a capital habeas case. It begins with appointment of counsel, budgeting concerns, and stays of execution. It then summarizes the primary procedural considerations that affect habeas cases—successive ...(Read more) |
| _ | Confidential Discovery: A Pocket Guide on Protective Orders
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2012 (Publication) 21 pages
Among the reasons that courts issue protective orders in both civil and criminal cases is to keep discovery confidential on a showing of good cause. Experience has proved confidentiality protective orders to grease the wheels of discovery in many cases. The protective orders discussed in this ...(Read more) |
| _ | Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition
Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, Elizabeth C. Wiggins,
2012 (Publication) 48 pages
This second-edition pocket guide helps federal judges manage the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). It encourages judges to actively manage cases that involve ESI through early intervention and sustained supervision and to use the many tools available to them—case-management ...(Read more) |
| _ | Compensatory Damages Issues in Patent Infringement Cases: A Pocket Guide for Federal District Court Judges
William C. Rooklidge, Martha K. Gooding, Philip S. Johnson, Mallun Yen,
2011 (Publication) 43 pages
A guide for trial judges to consult when deciding issues of compensatory damages in patent infringement cases, prepared by a national committee of experts from the bench, bar, in-house counsel, and academia formed at the request of the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...(Read more) |
| _ | Managing Multidistrict Litigation in Products Liability Cases: A Pocket Guide for Transferee Judges
Barbara J. Rothstein, Catherine R. Borden,
2011 (Publication) 53 pages
This guide is intended to help judges who receive multidistrict litigation (MDL) products liability assignments to manage MDL cases and to introduce some of the procedures that transferee judges have developed over the years. |
| _ | Managing the Chapter 15 Cross-Border Insolvency Case: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Louise Decarl Adler,
2011 (Publication) 36 pages
Increasing globalization and cross-border interdependence of business enterprises increase the likelihood that bankruptcy judges will see the occasional chapter 15 case filed in their jurisdiction. In this concise guide, Judge Louise DeCarl Adler (Bankr. S.D. Cal.) gives judges who may be ...(Read more) |
| _ | Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Third Edition
Barbara J. Rothstein, Thomas E. Willging,
2010 (Publication) 55 pages
This pocket guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class action cases filed in or removed to federal courts as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). It includes a section on determining federal jurisdiction that incorporates case-management ...(Read more) |
| _ | Sealing Court Records and Proceedings: A Pocket Guide
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2010 (Publication) 26 pages
Court case records and proceedings are presumptively public, but occasionally there are compelling reasons for keeping all or parts of them confidential, sometimes permanently but often only temporarily. This pocket guide summarizes the case law on sealing records and proceedings and presents a ...(Read more) |
| _ | Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition
Barbara J. Rothstein, Thomas E. Willging,
2009 (Publication) 40 pages
Superseded
This pocket guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class action cases filed in or removed to federal courts as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA). This second edition includes a new section on determining federal jurisdiction that ...(Read more) |
| _ | Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers
Robert Timothy Reagan,
2007 (Publication) 44 pages
Superseded in March 2013
Most federal judges come into contact with classified information infrequently, if at all, but when they do, they are faced with the dilemma of how to protect government secrets in the context of an otherwise public proceeding. This pocket guide is designed to familiarize ...(Read more) |
| _ | Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Barbara J. Rothstein, Ronald J. Hedges, Elizabeth C. Wiggins,
2007 (Publication) 26 pages
[superseded]
This pocket guide helps federal judges manage the discovery of electronically stored information (ESI). It covers issues unique to the discovery of ESI, including its scope, the allocation of costs, the form of production, the waiver of privilege and work product protection, ...(Read more) |
| _ | The Elements of Case Management: A Pocket Guide for Judges, Second Edition
William W Schwarzer, Alan Hirsch,
2006 (Publication) 22 pages
A primer for judges on techniques and methods of case management. |
| _ | Managing Class Action Litigation: A Pocket Guide for Judges
Barbara J. Rothstein, Thomas E. Willging,
2005 (Publication) 29 pages
[superseded]
This guide is designed to help federal judges manage the increased number of class actions expected as a result of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. As called for in that legislation, the guide is part of a continuing effort of the federal judiciary to identify "best practices" ...(Read more) |