U.S. District Judge Gorton to take
senior status
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton has advised President Donald Trump that he intends to take senior status effective May 31, 2025. He will continue to serve as a senior U.S. District judge.
Gorton was appointed as a U.S. District judge by President George H.W. Bush in September 1992, and for 12 years, he served as the first federal judge appointed to sit in the Central Division of the District of Massachusetts (Worcester). In 2004, he was reassigned to the Eastern Division (Boston) when Judge Robert Keeton took senior status.
In 2001, Gorton was appointed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to serve a seven-year term on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which duties he performed in addition to his regular function as a district judge. Gorton has also served on the Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources from 1997 to 2003 and as a member of the Committee on Intercircuit Assignments. In 2018, he was appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to a seven-year term to the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, on which he continues to serve and which requires bimonthly travel to judicial circuits nationwide.
Gorton is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia University Law
School and served on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Navy in the western Pacific.
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Revised dollar amounts for bankruptcy forms
take effect April 1
On April 1, 2025, the adjustment of the dollar amounts in various sections of title 11, U.S. Code (the Bankruptcy Code), and in one section of title 28, will become effective pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 104 and apply to cases filed on or after that date. The amounts and a correction to those amounts can be found here and here.
Also as of April 1, 2025, several official forms, director’s forms, and instructions, which have been updated to reflect the adjustments, will become effective. They are available here.
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Job opening
Deputy labor counsel for Trial Court Legal Department
The Trial Court Legal Department is accepting applications for the position of deputy labor counsel.
The position is responsible for representing the Trial Court in labor and employment cases and advising Trial Court officials on labor and employment issues, including, but not limited to, discipline, internal complaints and leaves. The deputy labor counsel prepares for and conducts litigation of complex labor and employment issues before the Department of Labor Relations, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and, on occasion, the Massachusetts Superior Court, and in arbitration. The position also acts as liaison to the Office of the Attorney General in Trial Court employment litigation.