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Potential Election Day Meltdowns

Posted on September 13, 2008
If you ask voters about potential election day meltdowns, they are likely to think about voting machines but, according to David Kimball (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and Lawrence Norden (Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School) in...

Gov. Palin, Earmarks Fighter?

Posted on September 13, 2008
The image of Sarah Palin as a fighter of earmarks is central to John McCain ?s explanation for picking her. So is she? Ah, no. Palin?s office submitted 31 requests, totaling approximately $197 million. CQ Politics examines Gov. Palin's record...

Friday Fun: Top Ten Law Songs

Posted on September 12, 2008
Did Above the Law get it right? I Fought The Law - The Clash Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Warren Zevon 99 Problems - Jay-Z Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash We're All Winners, as arranged by Nixon Peabody Law...

Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century

Posted on September 12, 2008
How should we be rethinking the research library in a swiftly changing information landscape? In a new report from the Council on Library and Information Resources, librarians, publishers, faculty members, and information technology specialists tackle this difficult question...

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Google Surpasses 70% Search Engine Market Share

Posted on September 12, 2008
As a followup to a recent LLB Post, a new report from Hitwise provides more proof of Google's search dominance. According to the report "Google reached a new milestone and accounted for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches. Google?s share...

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on C-SPAN's America and the Courts

Posted on September 12, 2008
Justice Kennedy recently spoke to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and his remarks about the Supreme Court, international law & how other nations view America's Constitution are quite interesting. Of particular note, the speech included a discussion of DC v...

EEOC's Annual Report on the Federal Work Force for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007

Posted on September 12, 2008
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), released the Annual Report on the Federal Work Force for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, covering October 2006 through September 2007. According to the comprehensive report: Federal employees and applicants filed 16,363 complaints alleging...

American War Criminals Conference Steamed Live This Weekend

Posted on September 12, 2008
The Justice Robert Jackson Conference on the Planning for Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals (September 13-14, 2008) will be streamed live this weekend. The speakers list includes former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, author of the book, The...

Free legal research on the rise

Posted on September 12, 2008
This month's ABA journal reports that free online legal research has overtaken fee-based online legal research. Wow. Also of note: online legal research via mobile devices staying constant at 2%. Good to know when designing your library's web site. [JJ]

A Great Day for Fair Use? Senate Judiciary Committee Recommends IP Enforcement Bill, S. 3325

Posted on September 12, 2008
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee ordered the Intellectual Property Enforcement Act of 2008, S. 3325, reported with amendments. [Thomas Resources | Open Congress Resources] The bill would increase penalties for a range of infringements, and give content holders and the...

Spicing Up Legal Research Courses with Supplemental Readings

Posted on September 11, 2008
Let's face it, legal research textbooks aren't exciting reads. Shawn G. Nevers (Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School) makes an attempt to fix that by identifying 14 supplemental readings for 1L and advanced legal research courses. Check out...

New Congressional Database on Lobbying Contributions

Posted on September 11, 2008
Under a new reporting system required by last year's lobbying and ethics reform law, Lobbyists and the organizations they work for have "disclosed nearly 100,000 contributions and other payments linked to members of Congress and other top officials" according to...

ABA Approves Bar Exam Courses for Credit Toward Graduation

Posted on September 11, 2008
Last month, the ABA?s House of Delegates concurred in Resolution 112B which deleted Interpretation 302-7 of the Standards for Approval of Law Schools concerning bar examination preparation courses. Prior to this action, prep courses could not count toward law school...

Do Senate Confirmations of Court of Appeals Nominations Decline in Presidential Election Years?

Posted on September 11, 2008
Yes, according to a recent CRS report, Nomination and Confirmation of Lower Federal Court Judges in Presidential Election Years. The report found that between 1977 and 2007 the Senate has, on average, confirmed fewer court of appeals nominees in presidential...

Opening: Head of Technical Services, Hamline University Law School Library

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Hamline University School of Law is accepting applications for the Head of Technical Services position. The successful candidate will perform professional and supervisory work in the planning, implementation and management of the goals and objectives of the Technical Services...

DOJ Moving Forward With Antitrust Action Over Google-Yahoo Ad Deal?

Posted on September 11, 2008
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DOJ has hired Sanford Litvack for a possible antitrust challenge to Google's growing power in online advertising. The Company's pending search-advertising deal with Yahoo, announced in June, would account for more than...

Time to Nominate Librarians for the Carnegie/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award

Posted on September 11, 2008
It's time to nominate librarians for the Carnegie Corporation/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. Up to ten librarians will be honored. Each will receive $5,000 and be recognized at an awards ceremony hosted by The New York Times...

Are You Represented by One of CREW's 20 Most Corrupt Members of Congress

Posted on September 11, 2008
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has identified the 20 most corrupt members of Congress (and four to watch) in its fourth annual "most corrupt" report. This year, CREW has launched a companion website which offers short summaries...

Foreign Law Schools Follow U.S. Legal Education Practices

Posted on September 10, 2008
The National Law Journal takes a look at foreign institutions around the world that are emulating the law schools program and the admissions processes here in the United States. In Foreign law schools follow the U.S. playbook, the "trend not...

State Attorneys General Unresponsive to Online Fraud and Abuse Complaints

Posted on September 10, 2008
A new report from the Center for American Progress and Center for Democracy and Technology finds that state attorneys general receive thousands of complaints of online fraud and abuse but have launched relatively few cases in response. In Online Consumers...

New Documentary Focuses on U.S. Classified Secrets

Posted on September 10, 2008
In a single recent year the U.S. government classified about five times the number of pages added to the Library of Congress. Secrecy, by Peter Galison and Robb Moss, focuses on classified secrets and explores the tensions between national security...

Bankruptcy Filings Rise 28.9 Percent

Posted on September 10, 2008
Bankruptcy filings in federal courts rose by 28.9 percent according to statistics released by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. There were 967,831 bankruptcy cases filed during the 12-month period that ended June 30, 2008, compared to 751,056 cases...

The Few, The Proud, .... The Librarians?

Posted on September 10, 2008
Apparently the Marine's are looking for a few good librarians based on this USAJobs post. The job lists as being a civilian working for the Navy or Marine Corp in Quantico, VA under the supervision of the Head of the...

SCOTUS May Reconsider Death Penalty Ruling After Blogger Identified DOJ Omission

Posted on September 10, 2008
The WSJ Law Blog is reporting that the Supreme Court may reconsider its decision in the Court's June death penalty case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, because a blog post disclosed that the DOJ failed to mention a relevant federal statute that...

Court Bans Publication of Librarian's Harry Potter Lexicon

Posted on September 10, 2008
On Monday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled against publication of the book The Harry Potter Lexicon, written by school librarian Steven Vander Ark because it borrowed "too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."...

NCLIS's Final Report Recaps 37 Years of Meeting the Information Needs of the American People

Posted on September 09, 2008
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R.2764, provided funds for the Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences (NCLIS) to be consolidated with the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In its final report ?Meeting the information needs of the American people:...

UNICEF Newsmap to Promote Rights of Children

Posted on September 09, 2008
From the press release: UNICEF?s Division of Communication is introducing an interactive tool to engage an even wider audience in the global conversation on child survival and child rights. UNICEF Newsmap, is a Google Maps interface that provides users with...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on September 09, 2008
Reviews published in the August 25th, 2008 issue of InSITE: African International Courts and Tribunals CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute CIMIP: Center for Identity Management & Information Protection CRISE: Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity PolicyArchive

LexisWeb Beta

Posted on September 09, 2008
LexisWeb is a search engine that indexes some 4,500 legal websites. While in beta, there is no charge. Check out the user guide. [JH]

Opening: Legal Research/Reference Librarian, Law Library of Congress

Posted on September 09, 2008
The Law Library of Congress seeks a legal research/reference librarian with education and experience (1) providing legal and legislative information services to diverse and demanding clients in a large law library or similar legal information organization; (2) creating and organizing...

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