Wage-and-hour suits at all-time high, firm study says 
Published: August 9, 2012
Tags: fair labor standards act, Federal Judicial Center, FLSA, misclassification, wage and hour litigation
Wage-and-hour lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act are at an all-time high, according to a new analysis of federal court statistics by defense firm Seyfarth Shaw.
Study: Most judges tell jurors not to use social media
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 31, 2012
Tags: Federal Judicial Center, Judicial Conference of the United States, jury deliberations, social media, trials
WASHINGTON – Most federal judges tell jurors not to use Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools to communicate information about the trials in which they are sitting, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Federal Judicial Center.
District courts selected for patent case pilot project
Published: June 21, 2011
Tags: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Federal Judicial Center, patent, patent law
Fourteen U.S. District Courts have been selected to participate in a 10-year pilot project designed to improve the expertise of judges in patent cases.
Federal judges divided over amending criminal rules on exculpatory evidence
Published: April 26, 2011
Tags: exculpatory evidence, Federal Judicial Center, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
Federal judges are divided over whether the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure should be amended to require the government to hand over exculpatory evidence to criminal defendants, according to a recent survey by the Federal Judicial Center.
