U.S. Courts' Notice: Invalid Subpoenas
The U.S. Courts' website (www.uscourts.gov) has the following alert:Reports have been received of bogus e-mail grand jury subpoenas, purportedly sent by a United States District Court. The e-mails are not a valid communication from a federal court and may contain harmful links. Recipients are warned not to open any links or download any information relating to this e-mail notice. The federal Judiciary's email address is uscourts.gov. The e-mails in question appear to be sent from a similar address that is not owned and operated by the federal courts. Law enforcement authorities have been n...
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Electronic Discovery Law - April 16, 2008 Tags: News & Updates
Oregon Declares Statutes Copyrighted Material
The State of Oregon has declared that the Oregon Revised Statutes are copyrighted material and has sent cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of the laws.
Carl Malamud has issued a response which he has posted on Scribd, along with related documents.
Source: BoingBoing
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 16, 2008 Tags: Legislation & Regs
Availability of 2006 U.S. Code
According to the Law Revision Counsel, by way of the GovDocs-l listserv, titles 1-9 of the 2006 edition of the official U.S. Code are now available on the House of Representatives U.S. Code Search site. See the about page for more information.
The first four volumes (titles 1 to 10, §§ 101-1805) have also been released to GPO for printing. LRC will continue to add updated titles on the Code website and to release additional volumes to GPO as fast as they can complete the editorial work.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - April 16, 2008 Tags: Legislation & Regs
Oregon Claims Copyright, Seeks Removal of ORS From Internet Sites
Boing Boing points us to a bit of unfortunate business between the State of Oregon and two sites, Justia and Public.Resource.Org, that post copies of the Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS).
Though Oregon does not claim a copyright in the statutory text itself, it has long claimed a copyright over the “arrangement and subject-matter compilation…, the prefatory [...]
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BoleyBlogs! - April 16, 2008 Author: rtruman Tags: Legal Research
Citizen Media Law Project following new Wikileaks case
From the Citizen Media Law Project blog...read more
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Berkman Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: syoung
Earliest Mass. Reports Now Online
Volumes 1-238 of Mass. Reports are now available full-text on the web, thanks to the scanning efforts of the Google Books Project. Unfortunately, the search interface is a challenge, so to make them easier to find, we've created a page of Early Mass. Reports which links to all the volumes we have been able to find. Volumes are in PDF format and can be dowloaded or searched. You can also choose to view (but not dowload) a text version.We could not find them all, so if you are able to locate any of the volumes we haven't linked, please let us know.
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Massachusetts Law Updates - April 16, 2008 Author: Meg
Grading the States 2008: A Management Report Card
New report from Governing Magazine: "Information is king. No single idea emerges more clearly from year-long research done for the 2008 Government Performance Project. As always, this report focuses on four fundamental areas of government management: Information, People, Money and...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Think Tank Reports
Coerced Evidence Contaminating Judicial System, Undermining Terrorist Prosecutions
New report from Human Rights First: "The introduction of coerced evidence, obtained through the use of official cruelty, into military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay is rapidly contaminating the justice system and jeopardizing the prospects for the successful prosecution of...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Think Tank Reports
Professional Reading: Statutory Interpretation in the Context of Federal Jurisdiction
Debra Ly Bassset's (Alabama) Statutory Interpretation in the Context of Federal Jurisdiction is available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Recently the Supreme Court has suggested that despite the distinctive nature of jurisdictional statutes, such statutes implicate only traditional notions of...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
Soros on the Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means
The current crisis marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency. The periodic crises were part of a larger boom-bust process. The current crisis is the culmination of a super-boom...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Managing Online Forums
Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards by Patrick O'Keefe List Price: $24.00 Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: AMACOM (April 10, 2008) ISBN-10: 081440197X ISBN-13: 978-0814401972 Book Description (from the book's website):...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Supreme Court OK's Lethal Execution
By a vote of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court upheld Kentucky’s method of putting criminals to death by lethal injection. Read the opinion, Baze v. Rees (07-5439). See also: Lots of praise for Baze and for capital punishment federalism,...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Litigation in the News
Alert:Invalid Subpoenas
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has posted an alert that reports have been received of totally bogus e-mail grand jury subpoenas, purportedly sent by a U.S. District Court. The emails are not a valid communication from a federal...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: LawLibrarian Blogger Tags: Courts
"The Choice of Associating Your Name with Your Blog"
Posted by Darren Rowse: Do you associate your name with your blog? One of the choices that face bloggers when...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs/Blogging
"Encrypted E-Mails Can Protect Your Firm"
In the news: Included within many e-mail messages is information that, if disclosed, might have serious negative consequences for a...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Privacy
"Blaming IT"
Posted by Ron Friedmann: Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: 77% of...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Tech Use By Lawyers
"Marketing Plan Basics - Who, What, When, Where, Why and How"
Posted by Allison Shields: "Yesterday I was privileged to be one of the speakers at the Suffolk County Women's Business...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Marketing
"How to Create a 15-Minute Presentation in 1 Hour (with graphics!)"
Posted by Cliff Atkinson: Is it possible to create a 15-minute BBP presentation in 1 hour? The answer we demonstrated...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Technology Tips
"The Power of Peer Pressure"
In the news: Peer pressure is one of the less frequently discussed fuels propelling the large-firm machine. Many big law...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"Why Did You Lose (or Win) That Competition?"
Posted by Tom Kane: You can learn a lot either way. Thanks to Barbara Walters Price at Marketing U, I...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Representing Disabled Clients
Posted by Susan Cartier Liebel: This is a fascinating read in the Oregon State Bar Journal. We don't think, or...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 16, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Business of Lawyering
A Victory for the Deer
The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that FEMA is bound by an injunction prohibiting it from issuing national flood insurance for new developments in the Florida Keys until it satisfies the requirements of the Endangered Species Act to "insure" that its actions are not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of endangered species or their habitat. In a decision sure to be applauded by environmentalists, the Court ruled that the Endangered Species Act does apply to FEMA's administration of the National Flood Insurance Program. The lawsuit was first filed in 1990, after...
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novalawcity - April 16, 2008 Author: Deborah McGovern
