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Yikes, Love Affair Between Prosecutor and Judge Not Good Enough Grounds for New Trial for Inmate on Death Row in Texas

Posted on September 19, 2009
The Courthouse News Service is reporting the story. In a 6-3 decision, the highest criminal court in Texas ruled that the death row inmate waited too long to raise the argument that the relationship tainted his 1990 trial. In a...

Two Social Networking Sites for Law Students

Posted on September 19, 2009
Hat tip to Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian at Cleveland Marshall Law Library, for calling attention to Advanced Advocates and CaseMakerX. Check out Sue's post for brief descriptions. [JH]

Interesting Note from Football

Posted on September 19, 2009
As I sit on my couch this afternoon I was very surprised to hear the CBS announcers for the Florida - Tennessee football game today throw in the tidbit that Florida kicker, Jonathan Phillips, isn't just enrolled at the University...

Friday Fun: Quiet Please, Don't Be a Grover

Posted on September 18, 2009
Another Sesame Street classic, Grover in the Library. [JH]

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Creative Commons Publishes Findings of Survey on What ?Noncommercial Use? Means to the Online Community

Posted on September 18, 2009
Creative Commons has published Defining ?Noncommercial?: A Study of How the Online Population Understands ?Noncommercial Use.? The report details the results of a research study launched in September 2008 to explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content found...

Suggestions Wanted for ABA Journal's Next 100 Best Law Blogs by October 2

Posted on September 18, 2009
The ABA Journal wants to know which law blogs should be included in its annual list of the 100 best law blogs. The list will be published in December. Suggestions should be made by October 2. This would be a...

Hints That Web 2.0 May Alter Long-Standing Patterns of Civic Engagement Based on Socioeconomic Status According to Pew Internet Survey

Posted on September 18, 2009
"Contrary to the hopes of some advocates," writes the authors of the Pew Internet's September 2009 survey findings in The Internet and Civic Engagement, "the internet is not changing the socioeconomic character of civic engagement in America." Higher income, higher...

Kudos to University of Montana School of Law and Its Law Library

Posted on September 18, 2009
The University of Montana School of Law will dedicate its new building today. The current building was constructed in 1961, and its last major renovation was in 1978. The $14.8 million addition adds nearly 46,000 square feet to the school's...

Friday Fun: Colbert on Citizens United v. FEC

Posted on September 18, 2009
Stephen Colbert breaks down the recently argued Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. It's Sonia Sotomayor's first chance to show her justice-i-ness in this rare out of session argument. The case revolves around the Hillary Clinton...

603(c), 603(d) & Surgery

Posted on September 18, 2009
ABA Approval for Law Schools Standard 603(c) reads, ?A director of a law library should have a law degree and a degree in library or information science and shall have a sound knowledge of and experience in library administration.? "Should"...

What Happens to Law School Graduates That Fail the Bar Exam?

Posted on September 17, 2009
In contrast to the rich body of literature examining the long-term outcomes of lawyers, we don't know much about what happens to law school graduates who fail to pass the bar exam. The legal academy prefers to hid them under...

Hello Words and Phrases Online, Goodbye Words and Phrases in All Formats

Posted on September 17, 2009
Citing West Librarian?s Relations Newsletter (9/2/2009) the Cocky Law Blawg provides the following except reporting on a new Westlaw database for the Company's long-running print Words and Phrases title. On August 24, a new WORDS-PHRASES database was released that permits...

New Law Titles from the University of Chicago Press

Posted on September 17, 2009
The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley From the Blurb: According to Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley in The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It,...

A possible solution to illegal downloads - France considers cutting off internet access

Posted on September 17, 2009
Talk about a deterrent! There's legislation pending in France that would cut-off internet access for up to a year (as well as impose substantial fines and possible jail time) for anyone caught illegally downloading content from the web. According to....

Pace Law School To Admit First Midyear Class in January, Students to Graduate in 2.5 Years Instead of 3

Posted on September 17, 2009
Pace Law School will launch of a new program for candidates seeking to start law school in January rather than September and to reduce duration of attending law school by one-half year. According to the press release, the inaugural class...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in ALL-SIS Task Force's Recommendations for ABA Standards Revision Relating to Academic Law Libraries

Posted on September 17, 2009
The ALL-SIS Task Force on ABA Standards Review has submitted its Recommendations for ABA Standards Revision Relating to Academic Law Libraries to the AALL Executive Board. In several but not all respects, I think most law librarians would agree with....

A Few More Comments on the ALL-SIS Task Force's Recommendations

Posted on September 17, 2009
I would like to add some thoughts to Joe Hodnicki's excellent post on the ALL-SIS Task Force's Recommendations for ABA Standards Revision Relating to Academic Law Libraries. The Task Force is content to leave the standards for job security in...

Horror Stories: "When you become an officer of the court, you lose the full ability to criticize the court" on social media sites

Posted on September 16, 2009
A September 12, 2009 article in the New York Times, A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the Bar by John Schwartz reviews recent disciplinary proceedings against practicing attorneys. One case involved a blogging criminal attorney who questioned the...

If You Put Something into the Public Domain, Can You Take It Out Later?

Posted on September 16, 2009
One of Cincinnati Law's better young gun law profs, Tim Armstrong, has deposited Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public in SSRN. The article addresses the possible consequences of one of the...

CRS Report on FOIA Issues for the 111th Congress

Posted on September 16, 2009
From the summary of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): Issues for the 111th Congress (Aug. 12, 2009): In his first full day in office, President Obama issued a memorandum to federal departments and agencies encouraging more collaboration, participation, and transparency...

Boys Will Be Boys: On "Cool" Facebook Apps

Posted on September 16, 2009
In What value do users derive from social networking applications? (First Monday, Sept. 2009) Larry Neale and Rebekah Russell-Bennett investigate the value users derive from ?cool? Facebook applications and the features that either encourage or discourage users to recommend applications...

Philadelphia Public Libraries Announce Closing in Budget Dispute

Posted on September 16, 2009
The public libraries in Philadelphia are closing as of October 2 due to the failure of the Pennsylvania State Senate to pass a budget. The web site for the Free Library of Philadelphia has the details of the closing. NBC...

If you've ever wondered how West creates headnotes and key numbers . . . .

Posted on September 16, 2009
Then this is the video for you. A behind the scenes look at how the editorial staff at West takes a case (here, it's the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller) moments after it's decided and...

Government to Tap Cloud Computing and Google Wants to Help

Posted on September 16, 2009
Google is securing certification for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) (no cute acronym here) in conjunction with Google Apps and an initiative to provide cloud computing to federal and state governments. This comes in conjunction with the announcement that...

Does the Internet mean the end of universities in the next 10 years?

Posted on September 15, 2009
That's the premise of this story from Sunday's Washington Post as reported by the Chronicle of Higher Ed in which Professor Zephyr Teachout predicts "that kids heading off to college this year might be part of the last generation for...

94% of lawyers still don't like Twitter

Posted on September 15, 2009
And that makes, um, two of us. While I've seen some retailers put Twitter to very good use, for me - and, as it turns out, for the vast majority of other attorneys - the hype on Twitter far exceeds...

BigLaw Firm Libraries: Looking Back From a 20-Year Old Perspective

Posted on September 15, 2009
Reflecting on this year's findings in the AmLaw 200 Law Library Survey [see LLB's post, Lexis or Westlaw No Longer a Blasphemous Question at BigLaw Firms], Ron Friedmann wonders whether law firms and libraries have fundamentally re-thought how firm libraries...

Who Is Lining Google's Pockets Today? Daily Adwords Revenue Stats

Posted on September 15, 2009
Permuto Blog has identified Google's highest Adword search advertisers and analyzed the revenue down to daily spending levels. Average daily spending per Adword advertiser is $39, per the top 10 advertisers, which includes AOL, Expedia, NexTag, Target, Amazon, Local...

The Kelo Back-Story

Posted on September 15, 2009
Condemnation cases are about people, not property, and Susette Kelo's story is a perfect example. Little Pink House (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) by Jeff Benedict relies more on interviews of the litigants than delving deeping into legal analysis to document...

UMG Loses at Trial in Infringment Suit Against Veoh

Posted on September 15, 2009
The Universal Music Group (UMG) sued Internet video provider Veoh in September, 2007, for direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement and for inducement of copyright infringement. The case turned on whether Veoh was eligible to invoke the safe harbor provisions...

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