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.
Report to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules regarding the proposal to amend Rule 12.2. Procedures governing court-ordered mental examinations are presented as they have been implemented in a sample of districts with extensive death penalty experience.
Clerk of the Court Robert R. Di Trolio forwards the 1994 Periodic Assessment of the Western District of Tennessee's dockets to Philip R. Argetsinger of the Administrative Office and Donna Stienstra of the Federal Judicial Center