{"id":11336,"date":"2020-12-22T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2020-12-22T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:30:26","slug":"federal-circuit-to-receive-33-5m-for-operating-expenses-in-covid-relief-government-funding-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11336","title":{"rendered":"Federal Circuit to receive $33.5M for operating expenses in Covid relief\/government funding legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought it was interesting that the COVID relief\/government funding bill has a special carve out for the Federal Circuit.  Other courts of appeal and district courts are allocated money in one big bolus of $5.3B.  But, the Federal Circuit is called out separately and given $33.5M.  That&#8217;s a lot of money &#8212; I wonder what that comes out to for every Rule 36 opinion that the court issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>UNITED\u00a0STATES\u00a0COURT OF\u00a0APPEALS FOR THE\u00a0FEDERAL\u00a0CIRCUIT<br>SALARIES AND EXPENSES\u00a0<\/p><p>For salaries of officers and employees, and for nec- essary expenses of the court, as authorized by law, $33,500,000.\u00a0In addition, there are appropriated such sums as may be necessary under current law for the salaries of the chief judge and judges of the court.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the text of the legislation starting at page 529 here: [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-stat\/graphics\/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it was interesting that the COVID relief\/government funding bill has a special carve out for the Federal Circuit. Other courts of appeal and district courts are allocated money in one big bolus of $5.3B. But, the Federal Circuit is called out separately and given $33.5M. That&#8217;s a lot of money &#8212; I wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11336\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}