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Google and Miró Family in a Mire of Copyright Unpleasantness

Posted on April 21, 2006
While aiming for good cheer in honor of surrealist painter Joan Miró's birthday on April 20, Google has stepped on a few toes: "The family of Joan Miro was upset to discover elements of several works by the Spanish surrealist...

Documents in the News - Kansas Teen Privacy Opinion

Posted on April 19, 2006
Judge J. Thomas Marten of the Federal District Court for the District of Kansas ruled yesterday (April 18, 2006) in a case that sought to prevent enforcement of Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline?s application of the state mandatory reporting statute,...

France's "Kafka Index"

Posted on April 18, 2006
France has designed a red tape buster called the "Kafka Index." It will "measure the complexity of a project or law against its usefulness to cut red tape." "The index--referring to Franz Kafka's The Trial, which describes one man's fight...

Documents in the News - Lethal Injection

Posted on April 18, 2006
An article in today's New York Times (page A14) describes an order entered in Willie Brown, Jr. v. Theodis Beck (E.D. N.C. 4/17/2006) allowing North Carolina to use a "bispectral index (BIS) monitor" to determine whether Mr. Brown is unconscious...

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Secret Dockets

Posted on April 17, 2006
For several years we have been hearing about "secret dockets" in federal courts - crime-related cases which do not appear in any public list of cases before the court. The practice was exposed in the Southern District of Florida in...

Federal Court Rule Revisions

Posted on April 14, 2006
Proposed amendments to the various sets of federal rules can be found here, on the United States Courts website. The text of the proposed new Fed. R. App. Proc. 32.1, permitting citation to unpublished opinions, is here. The Pending Rules...

Archiving Web Pages

Posted on April 14, 2006
Did you ever view a web page that had good content but when you went back to it later the content was gone or changed? Now Yahoo has an archiving feature that will allow you to archive an existing web...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Turns 60

Posted on April 12, 2006
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) , the UN court with jurisdiction over international disputes, turned 60 on April 12, 2006. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, celebrating the occasion in the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace in The Hague,....

Prisoner Bypasses Florida for Vermont

Posted on April 08, 2006
Fast-acting folks have secured prisoner, and practicing Sikh, Satnam Singh?s right to retain an article of his faith: his unshorn hair, or ?kes,? along with his turban, or "dastaar." (See: "Common Misconceptions Regarding Sikhism.") Satnam Singh was ?scheduled to enter...

Federal Reserve Bank: Liber8

Posted on April 07, 2006
Liber8 is a portal that links to economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and international economic data sources. The site was designed for college students and university reference and government documents librarians...

This Time, We Have No Excuse

Posted on April 05, 2006
Genocide in the Darfur region of western Sudan began in February of 2003. Government and Arab Janjaweed militias have systematically engaged in mass killings, executions, the burning of towns and villages, sexual violence. To date over 300,000 members of African...

Metalib Instruction Guide

Posted on April 05, 2006
An instruction guide for using Metalib can be found here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Using Metalib to Search Across Databases

Posted on April 03, 2006
Thanks to Jon Lutz, I now know how to access the FSU Metalib search page from here (a Strozier Library webpage) or here (the FSU Law Library Research page). Metalib allows you to search different kinds of resources such as...

New battery technology

Posted on March 29, 2006
A new battery technology is expected to impact hybrid electric automobiles and other power hungry battery operated devices. Using nanotechnology, A123Systems has developed a Lithium-Ion battery that doubles the energy density of current Lithium-Ion battery technology, charges to 90 %...

The Truth about the Billable Hour

Posted on March 24, 2006
Yale law school's Career Development Office has posted a page that all would-be law students, and current law students, would benefit from inspecting closely. The page, titled "The Truth about the Billable Hour," is a listing of the actual time...

Peak Oil

Posted on March 24, 2006
We are hearing an increasing number of references to "peak oil," the theory that we have reached the point where, because oil is a finite resource, production will begin to decline and the cost of extracting oil will increase. The...

A New Judicial Biography

Posted on March 23, 2006
The law library?s Acquisitions Assistant position has its perks: Clearly I have the advantage of a heads-up on titles ordered and titles arriving on an approval basis. Some of these items appeal to the lover-of-good-story in me and therefore get...

Simpsons Outdo First Amendment

Posted on March 09, 2006
According to the results of a survey conducted by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum, one in five Americans can name all five Simpsons, but only one in a thousand can name the five freedoms under the First Amendment. A quick...

Game of Shadows

Posted on March 08, 2006
San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams chronicle their 15 month investigation into superstar athletes? use of steroids, growth hormones and other banned drugs. Their investigation shocked the nation and led to Congressional hearings...

The Federal Information Manual

Posted on March 03, 2006
Stephen Gidiere's The Federal Information Manual: How the Government Collects, Manages, and Discloses Information under FOIA and Other Statutes will help any business understand how a company's sensitive information is handled by the government, when it might be released, and...

In Defense of Animals

Posted on March 03, 2006
For these and other books regarding our relationship to the other creatures with whom we share the earth, browse the shelves at KF390.5A5 and the HV4700's. "We need another and a wiser concept of animals...We patronize them for their incompleteness,....

Making Decisions at the End of Life

Posted on February 21, 2006
The President's Council on Bioethics has issued a report, "Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society," available in full text here. Many, perhaps most, of us will have the experience of being involved in decisions by and for family...

Transparency Still an Issue in U.S. Editor Trial

Posted on February 21, 2006
Last week in Moscow, the trial of two men accused of killing a U.S. editor resumed behind closed doors after the presiding judge in the January 10th start date trial fell ill and was replaced. According to ISN Security Watch,...

U.N. Report on the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

Posted on February 16, 2006
The U.N. Commission on Human Rights has released a report on the U.S. Government's Guantanamo Bay detention center. Read the report here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Whistleblower Program Needs Improvement

Posted on February 14, 2006
Whistleblowers act in many cases as the publics first line of defense against wrongful conduct of public officials. But a recent audit overseen by the Office of Financial Management for the State of Washington suggests that a lack of follow...

Striking a Balance: Drug Labeling and the FDA

Posted on February 14, 2006
Today's pharamaceutical warning labels contain little useful information for consumers; rather, they attempt to over-warn of every potential side effect so as to protect manufacturers from getting sued. A new Food and Drug Administration labeling rule could provide better information...

Domestic Terrorism or Free Speech?

Posted on February 10, 2006
Six Philadelphia-based animal rights activists went on trial this week in a federal courthouse in Trenton, N.J. for their alleged direct harassment of a contract research company with animal-testing labs in the state of New Jersey, Huntingdon Life Sciences...

The Trial of Saddam Hussein

Posted on February 10, 2006
The Law Library of Congress has created a site, The Trial of Saddam Hussein, to monitor, analyze and report legal developments. A bibliography of reference materials and links to electronically-available materials will also be included. Posted by Faye Jones

DuPont Legal Model

Posted on February 07, 2006
In the early 1990s, the legal department at DuPont launched an initiative to reduce the number of external law firms employed, streamline the management of more than 4,000 legal cases, and meet global litigation challenges. The DuPont experience can teach...

"Happy Birthday" Gets Cut?

Posted on February 03, 2006
Documentary filmmakers may soon have cause not to say ?Cut!? every time they are filming at a party where everyone is singing ?Happy Birthday.? For a group of scholars who ?hope to breathe new life into a legal doctrine called...

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