Senate leaders have come to an agreement to consider 10 judicial nominees during the next several weeks, stepping up the rate at which senators have been considering judges in recent months. The nominees include candidates for the 4th Circuit and the high-profile Southern District of New York.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to move ahead with five of President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees, including two for the high-profile U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Southern District of New York Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, after faulting the government for offering “a lame excuse” for delivering non-searchable documents in Freedom of Information Act requests, ruled for the first time that federal agencies must turn over documents that include metadata.Visit Law Technology News

The destruction of videotapes in 2005 showing abusive treatment of high-level al-Qaida detainees by CIA agents flouted an order by Southern District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to preserve the tapes

Southern District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin held that the fashion company was entitled to assume its communications with employee Jonathan Moss were privileged as it discussed with him the alleged trademark infringement by Guess? Inc