Federal courts brace for sequester fallout 
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: March 18, 2013
Tags: budget cuts, federal budget, Judiciary, sequester, U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Delays in case processing, less supervision of criminal offenders, long lines due to a shortage of security personnel at courthouses and court employee layoffs are just a few of the things the federal court system is bracing for as a result of the ongoing automatic federal budget cuts known as the budget sequester.
Taxes, courts, federal agencies face effect of fiscal cliff
Published: December 31, 2012
Tags: Congress, federal budget, White House
WASHINGTON – The White House and congressional leaders continue to negotiate to prevent the federal government from falling over the so-called fiscal cliff – the set of automatic budget cuts and tax increases slated to begin on Jan. 2 absent congressional action.
Federal judges brace for funding shortfall
By:
Dan McDonald
Published: April 9, 2012
Tags: federal budget, judicial pay
Late last month, Judge Julia S. Gibbons went before a congressional subcommittee and made a pitch for $7 billion in appropriations for the federal judiciary next year – amounting to a 3 percent increase in this year’s funding. Gibbons, who sits on the 6th Circuit and chairs the Committee on the Budget of the Judicial Conference of the United States, painted a grim financial picture of what will happen to the federal courts barring congressional action: furloughs, layoffs, program cuts, the deferral of certain defense counsel services and, possibly, the suspension of the use of civil juries.
Estate tax guessing continues
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: February 23, 2012
Tags: estate planning, estate tax, estate tax exemption, federal budget, President Obama
WASHINGTON – With little chance of long-term federal estate tax reform passing in Washington any time soon, attorneys are again trying to plan as best as they can – not only for their clients, but also for themselves.
Are health courts coming to a state near you?
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: February 25, 2011
Tags: Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, DOJ, fair share rule, federal budget, health care reform, health courts, HHS, joint liability, medical malpractice, Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, tort reform
Buried in the White House’s federal budget plan is a proposal to encourage states to reform their medical malpractice laws.
The federal budget: What lawyers need to know
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: February 23, 2011
Tags: Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Discrimination, DOJ, DOL, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, FDA, federal budget, Food and Drug Administration, food safety, health care fraud, Internal Revenue Service, IRS, medical malpractice, Obama, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, tax fraud, worker misclassification
President Barack Obama released his budget requests for fiscal year 2012 on Feb. 14, seeking $3.73 trillion in total spending and claiming $1.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next ten years.
Within the 216-page document are numerous items for lawyers to keep an eye on as the budget works its way through Congress.
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