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New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library

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New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County

Posted on April 25, 2008
In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Friday, April 25, 2008 1. People ex rel. Spitzer v. Grasso2008 WL 1820925(N...

New York Law Journal Decions of Interest April 25, 2008

Posted on April 25, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Subscription needed for online access: U...

New York Law Journal Featured Columnists April 25, 2008

New York Law Journal Lead Articles April 25, 2008

Posted on April 25, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted: Friday, April 25, 2008 Scaffold Law Applied to Work Done Without Owner's Assent Free With Registration: Panel Finds Langone Role In Grasso Pay Is Trial Issue Firm Strikes First in Suing Its Employee Private Rights Ruled Limited Under Alien Torts Statute Newsbriefs

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Tax Rebates Approved Earlker Will Start Going Out Monday

Posted on April 25, 2008
Source: Congressional Quarterly Midday Update, April 25, 2008. "As congressional Democrats debate when and how to advance a second economic stimulus package, President Bush announced Friday that tax rebates approved earlier this year will start going out Monday"...

Firearm Death Rates Highest in Southern, Western States

Posted on April 25, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 25, 2008. "South Carolina is the latest in a growing number of states to make the names of people who have a license to carry a concealed weapon a secret, reports USA Today. Five other states might not be far behind...

More Than Half The States Keep Concealed Gun Permits Secret

Critic: Trained Cops Erred, Untrained Victims Ended Up Dead

Posted on April 25, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 25, 2008. "The acquittal of police officers in New York City's Sean Bell is the latest exammple of courts finding that no crime was involved in 'heart-breaking shootings of unarmed black men,' says New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzales...

Three New York City Police Cleared by Judge in 50 Shot Bell Killing

Posted on April 25, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, April 25, 2008. "Three New York City police detectives were acquitted today by a judge on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, the bridegroom who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a nightclub in 2006...

Virginia v. Moore

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: ABA Criminal Justice Section (www.abanet.org/crimjust) In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law...

Connecticut Senate Moves to Toughen Crime Law After Home Invasions

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "Under pressure for a response to two deadly home invasions in the past nine months, the Connecticut Senate voted today to strengthen the state's criminal law and allocate $10 million for enhanced crime- fighting, reports the Hartford Courant...

Maryland Law Professor Turns Class into Crime Fighting Think Tank

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "In Baltimore, a city where leaders have for years tried and failed to curtail one of the nation's highest crime rates, a University of Maryland law professor has turned his classroom into a crime-fighting think tank, says the Baltimore Sun...

Police Commissioner Tries To Communicate With Portugese Speaking Victims

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "Police Commissioner David Chong of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., held a news conference this month for Portugese-speaking media, report the New York Times. He was concerned about accounts from some of the fast growing community of Portuguese- speaking Brazilians: Robberies were going unreported, domestic abuse was going unpunished, speeding and parking tickets were largely uncontested because Brazilian immigrants were uncomfortable talking to the police...

Mexican Drug Violence Increasingly Crossing the U.S. Border

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "Javier Emilio Pérez Ortega, a Mexican police chief, showed up at a sleepy, two-lane border crossing last month and asked U.S. authorities for political asylum, reports the Washington Post. In the four months he had served as Puerto Palomas police chief, drug traffickers had threatened to kill him and his officers if they tried to block the flow of cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamines into the U...

U.S..Justice Department Warns of International Organized Crime Resurgance

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "At least three times this year, a Romanian a hacker posed as an eBay customer service representative in a bid to steal sensitive information from Americans who visited the popular auction Web site, says the Washington Post...

New York City Uses Electronic Ankle Bracelets in Protective Order Cases

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "New York City police and prosecutors have a new way of preventing domestic violence: Offenders must wear an ankle bracelet that sets off an alarm if they get too close to their victims, reports Newsday...

States Add Facilities, Employees To Process DNA Samples

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 24, 2008. "A new $5.3 million state crime lab in Bismarck, N.D., will be processing an increasing load of DNA samples, says USA Today. Five states will begin new sampling of suspects arrested for felony offenses in the last six months of 2008...

SEC Proposes Revisions to Regulation S-P and Expansion of Customer Privacy Requirements

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. SEC proposes revisions to Regulation S-P and expansion of customer privacy requirementsThompson Hine LLP"On March 4, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed changes to Regulation S-P ("Reg S-P"), the regulation governing the privacy and protection of customer information...

Data Breach Notification Report Card Released

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. Data Breach Notification Report Card releasedPerkins Coie LLP"The Ponemon Institute has released the 'Consumer's Report Card on Data Breach Notification.' "

Companies Need to Have Policies in Place if Personal Client Information is Stolen

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. Companies need to have policies in place if personal client information is stolenIce Miller LLP"An Indiana-based third-party debt collection and billing service recently reported a theft involving one or more of its servers that may have stored a significant amount of personal customer information...

Case Challenges Apple's Millions of Colors Claim

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. Case challenges Apple?s millions of colors claimManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"A lawsuit seeking class-action status claims that Apple is deceiving consumers by touting its new 20-inch iMac as capable of displaying 'millions of colors at all resolutions...

Computer Law: Unauthorized Access Under Computer Fraud, Abuse Act

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. Computer law: unauthorized access under Computer Fraud, Abuse ActThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"Although the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 18 U.S.C. §1030 et seq., was enacted almost 25 years ago, some of its provisions still remain open to varying interpretation...

Whaling Through Fake Online Subpoenas

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 24, 2008. 'Whaling' through fake online subpoenasWarner Norcross & Judd"Over the last few years, we've all learned to be wary of e-mail 'phishing' scams, which appear to be legitimate e-mails from financial institutions or other trustworthy organizations that alert you to an alleged problem with your account and invite you to click on a link to 'correct' the problem"...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines April 24, 2008

Posted on April 24, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, April 24, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | 'Racial impact statements' reality in Iowa"Iowa recently became the first state to enact a law requiring all new sentencing legislation to be examined for its racial and ethnic impact before passage ? what some sentencing experts hope is the beginning of a trend...

Position Vacancy: Electronic Resources Librarian

Posted on April 23, 2008
Position Announcement - Electronic Resources LibrarianThe Kresge Library of the Notre Dame Law School is seeking a talented librarian to help us establish a new position and then to be its founding occupant. We are looking for someone who understands electronic resources and is adept at making them useful to library patrons...

Position Vacancy: Catalog & Bibliographic Control Librarian

Posted on April 23, 2008
Florida International University ? College of Law Library Job Opening -- Catalog & Bibliographic Control Librarian The College of Law seeks a well-qualified law librarian to work under the direction of its Director of the Law Library to build a research-caliber law school library...

An Inside View of New York City's Antiterror Camera Network

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008. "Wired Magazine gives a helicopter view of New York City's evolving high-tech antierror network. City agencies have done their best to harden the financial district since 2001. Explosives-sniffing dogs and two truckloads of cops wearing military-style body armor and waving M-4 machine guns surround the flag- draped stock exchange...

Do Criminals Turn to Guns Over Feelings of Animosity?

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008 "In 1880, says the Washington Post, journalist Horace Redfield wrote that states belonging to the former Confederacy had a murder rate four to 15 times higher than that of Northern states. Whites in rural Southern areas still have a homicide rate 1 1/2 times higher than that of their Northern counterparts, said Matthew Lee, a Louisiana State University sociologist...

According to Federal Survey, Wisconsin Leads U.S. in Drunk-Driving

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008. "Wisconsin residents drive under the influence of alcohol - or, at least, admit to it - at a higher rate than the residents of any other state, says a federal study reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel...

Youth Peer Courts Save Money; Recidivism Rates not Certain

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008. "Youth courts, in which teenagers are sanctioned by their peers, can provide low-cost justice, says a new report by the Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence for the U.S. Justice Department...

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