Borntostorm

Tax avoidance and tax evasion

Dear Borntostorm: I have ready your very interesting comments on the talk (discussion) page for the above-reference article. Please watch the talk page for the article over the next few days, and I'll try to add some discussion that perhaps would generated ideas for expansion of the article itself.

By the way, you might want to consider signing your comments on the talk pagae, using four "tilde" characters. Yours, Famspear 00:46, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Commencement of service for federal judges

You placed a good question at Talk:United States court of appeals about when a judge becomes entitled to hear cases. The answer is that the judge must receive a commission and take the oath prescribed in 28 U.S.C. § 453 before hearing cases. Lists that purport to give service dates are inconsistent about when to start counting. Some use the date of taking the oath or, if that isn't known, date of commission. Some lists only give the commission date or the Senate confirmation date.

As an aside, despite the way federal judges' biographies are written on the FJC website, judges receives a commission regardless of whether the appointment is a normal (advice and consent) or recess one. The normal commission says the judge is appointed to such-and-such court with the advice and consent of the Senate to serve during good behavior. I presume the recess commission says something like, "the Senate being in recess, I do appoint" the judge to such-and-such court and "to serve until the end of the current session of Congress." If the recess appointee receives confirmation he or she would then receive a normal commission. -Rrius (talk) 08:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)