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New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library

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Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines September 23, 2008

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, September 23, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: <a href="http://www...

New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from New York County

Posted on September 24, 2008
 In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view cases listed below: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="right">1...

New Jersey Homicides Precipitously Drop

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "The number of murders in New Jersey fell to 381 last year, the lowest statewide total in five years, even as slayings continued to mount in the state's cities, reports the Newark Star-Ledger...

20% Increase Reported In Requests For "Touch" DNA Tests

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "The success of the 'touch' DNA analysis testing using a DNA technique that in July cleared JonBenet Ramsey's family in her death is triggering requests for the test from law enforcement officials seeking similar breakthroughs in unsolved crimes, reports USA Today...

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Pennsylvania Examines Its Record On Teens In Prison For Life

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "Pennsylvania is joining some other states in considering whether there are ways to treat the worst juvenile offenders rather than locking them up in adult prisons for life, the Associated Press reports...

South Florida Judges Tougher On Crack Sentence Reductions

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "In 1993, Anthea Harris of Florida watched as her husband exchanged 550 rocks of crack cocaine for $5,500 in cash...

Illegal Trash Scavenging On The Rise Nationwide

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "Illegal scavenging of trash containers seems to be worsening across the nation, says the San Diego Union-Tribune...

Minnesota Report Finds Gaps In Sex-Trafficking Prosecutions

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "Working as a prostitute in Chicago decades ago, Beth Jacobs said she frequently was arrested, caught by both undercover stings and uniformed police officers, says the Minneapolis Star Tribune...

Is Google Making Us Stupid: What the Intenet is doing to our brains

Posted on September 24, 2008
 Nicholas Carr in the Atlantic has written a recent article entitled "Is Google Making Us Stupid: What the Intenet is doing to our brains." The article is available at: <a href="http://www...

Robert Pear Highlights Concerns of Loss of Federal Electronic Information in New York Times Article

Posted on September 24, 2008
 One of the historic functions of libraries has been preserving and providing access to information in various media. In many ways, digitization of information has positively altered the information landscape...

Making Sound Recordings Available for Download "Distribution" of Copyrighted Works

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 23 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC3STV" target="_blank">Arizona - Is making sound recordings available for download distribution of copyrighted works?</a> Foley & Lardner LLP "Courts and copyright owners continue to struggle to adapt traditional concepts of copyright law to the Internet and, in particular, peer-to-peer music file-sharing...

California: Web Site Privacy Policies

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 23, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC3SU1" target="_blank">California - Web site privacy policies</a> Pepper Hamilton LLP "Until 2004, Web sites were not required to have privacy policies, unless they were governed by specific regulations (such as those applicable to the financial services or health care industries), were aimed at children, or sought to comply with the Safe Harbor Program designed to permit those in the European Union (EU) to transfer personal data to the U...

Governance Policies The Internal Revenue Service Thinks Your Organization Should Have

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 23, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC3SSM" target="_blank">Governance policies the IRS thinks your organization should have</a> Quarles & Brady "You may need to act by December 31...

U.S. Department of Justice Again Revises its Principles for Prosecuting Corporations

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 23, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC3SSQ" target="_blank">DOJ revises its principles for prosecuting corporations again</a> Reed Smith "The Department of Justice ( DOJ ) has once again scaled back the tactics it employs investigating and prosecuting corporations...

People Involved in Tech Bubble Due in Court

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, September 23, 2008. <a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBL550Gs8oP0G4n0Grg20EN" target="_blank">Tech Bubble Figures Nacchio, Vilar Due In Court This Week</a> "Both men played leading roles in the dot-com crash in which millions of investors lost vast sums of money"...

Crime of the Future? Solar Panels a Popular California Theft Item

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "Police departments in California - the biggest market for solar power, with more than 33,000 installations - are seeing a rash of burglaries involving solar panels, the New York Times reports...

Dallas Texas Finding Old Rape Victims Via DNA, Can't Charge Them

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "A Texas man who raped a 12-year-old girl at knifepoint more than two decades ago won't be arrested, says the Dallas Morning News...

Rape Reports Up 40% In San Francisco, No One Can Explain

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "Reports of rape in San Francisco have increased nearly 40 percent over last year, and police are not sure what is behind the increase, reports the San Francisco Chronicle...

How "Preventative Journalism" Could Avert Wrongful Convictions

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "The news media could practice more "preventive journalism" to help avoid wrongful convictions, journalist Steve Weinberg of Missouri writes in Miller- McCune magazine...

U.S.Supreme Court Criminal Law Docket Lighter So Far For 2008-09

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "The Supreme Court has fewer significant criminal law cases on its 2008-09 docket so far than it did last term, says the National Law Journal...

FBI Investigating Financial Market Fraud

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "The FBI is investigating whether fraud played a role in the troubles at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and American International Group, reports the Washington Post...

Kansas City Crime Up 10%; City Had Reported 22% Drop

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008. "Kansas City, it turns out, didn't see a dramatic 22 percent drop in crime last year...

Revised Job Posting: Digital Information Librarian

Posted on September 24, 2008
 POSITION TITLE: Digital Information Librarian COMPANY/INSTITUTION: Texas Tech University Law Library SHORT DESCRIPTION: The primary duties of the Librarian are to develop, maintain, organize, and add to the library's growing information base and repositories in all formats for the law school faculty, staff and students, as well as the University and public...

U.S. Supreme Court Issues Stay of Execution for Troy Davis

Posted on September 24, 2008
Sources: Crime and Justice News, September 24, 2008; CNN September 23, 2008: "The U...

Virginia Supreme Court Declares State Anti Spam Statute Unconstitutional

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 24, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC9Z10" target="_blank">Virginia - Virginia Supreme Court declares state anti-spam statute unconstitutional</a> Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP "On September 12, 2008, the Virginia Supreme Court issued an opinion striking down the anti-spam provisions in Virginia's Computer Crimes Act...

CFTC Seeks Comment On New Routine Use Of Records Under the Privacy Act

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, September 24, 2008. <a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KC9Z0K" target="_blank">CFTC seeks comment on new routine use of records under the Privacy Act</a> Winston & Strawn LLP "On September 11th, the CFTC published for comment a proposal to adopt a new routine use that would permit disclosure of CFTC records governed by the Privacy Act when reasonably necessary to respond and prevent, minimize, or remedy harm that may result from an agency data breach or compromise"...

Facebook Users With Lots of Friends More Likely to be Narcissists

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, September 24, 2008. <a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBL8E0Gs8oP0G4n0Grux0E5" target="_blank">Facebook Users With Lots of Friends More Likely To Be Narcissists</a> "University of Georgia researchers analyzed Facebook users' pages to measure the relationship between an inflated sense of self-importance and the number of friends and wall posts on the social network"...

Google Helps Users Navigate New York Public Transit System

Posted on September 24, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, September 24, 2008. <a href="http://update.informationweek.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hBL8E0Gs8oP0G4n0Gru30Ev" target="_blank">Google Helps Users Navigate New York Public Transit System</a> "The nation's largest transit system could be a bit easier to navigate with Google's new tools, including translation into 23 languages...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on September 24, 2008
 Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials...

New York: Bills Vetoed by Governor Paterson March 12 through August 7, 2008

Posted on August 08, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS),� Search run August 8, 2008. Veto No. Bill No. �54 A31A Clark (MS) -- Authorizes department of transportation to survey areas with a high incidence of pedestrian accidents involving senior citizens 17 A361B Destito -- Requires that surplus state personal property be offered to municipalities before it is offered for sale to the general public 55 A537B Paulin (MS) -- Provides incentive for persons licensed for on premises sale of alcoholic beverages and persons serving such beverages to undergo certain training 18 A695 Wright -- Requires commissioner of motor vehicles to establish rules and regulations for postponements of hearings after a plea of not guilty 27 A734 DelMonte (MS) -- Prohibits the purchase or sale of certain fish taken pursuant to fishing licenses, except fish from the St...

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