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Professional Reading: On the Opinion Limited to Its Facts

Posted on April 23, 2008
Jeff Todd's (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP) Undead Precedent: The Curse of a Holding "Limited to its Facts," 40 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 67 (2007) [Westlaw] brings the concept of a holding limited to its facts into the bright light...

New Law Titles from Stanford University Press

Posted on April 23, 2008
Details below the fold for the following new books from Stanford UP. [JH] Files: Law and Media Technology by Cornelia Vismann The Constitution of Electoral Speech Law: The Supreme Court and Freedom of Expression in Campaigns and Elections by Brian...

ALA's State of America's Libraries 2008

Posted on April 23, 2008
From the ALA press release: Libraries of all kinds continue to be engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide. Americans are acting on their conviction that school library media centers are a key element in delivering the...

Supreme Court Broadens Police Searches

Posted on April 23, 2008
From CNN: "The Supreme Court offered unanimous support for police Wednesday by allowing drug evidence gathered after an arrest that violated state law to be used at trial, an important search-and-seizure case turning on the constitutional limits of probable cause...

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Today is Tax Freedom Day

Posted on April 23, 2008
According to the Tax Foundation! Three days earlier than last year but three months later than Tax Freedom Day in 1900. Details including "tax freedom" days by state at America Celebrates Tax Freedom Day. Hat tip to TaxProf Blog. [JH]

Library Bombers case continues

Posted on April 22, 2008
In 2006 Thomas Zajac, known to many as the Library Bomber, allegedly detonated a pipe bomb in the Salt Lake City Library injuring no one and causing minimal damage. Monday, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled against Zajac's motions to...

Google News Search Launches New Quotes Feature

Posted on April 22, 2008
How to search quotes using Google News Search: To access these new features, first search for a person's name on Google News. If we have a recent quote, we'll show it above the search results. Clicking on the speaker's name...

Empiricial Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions

Posted on April 22, 2008
An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005 (pdf) by Barton Beebe (Cardozo) is available PENNumbra (pdf). The article presents "the results of the first empirical study of our fair use case law to show that much of...

New on LLRX.com for April 2008

Posted on April 22, 2008
From LLRX: The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace, by Deborah Ginsberg and Meg Kribble Update to Choosing Law Librarianship: Thoughts for People Contemplating...

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 Starts Today

Posted on April 22, 2008
The four-day Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 starts today [website]. Check out the Annotated Schedule of Programs and the offical Web 2.0 Expo Blog. Information Week will be providing on-going coverage of the event here. Follow news and blog...

Professional Reading: Government Lawyers in the Liberal State

Posted on April 22, 2008
W. Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law School) has deposited Government Lawyers in the Liberal State in NELLCO. Here's the abstract: Criticism of the ?politicization? of the role of federal government lawyers has been intense in recent years, with the scandals over...

2008 U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial

Posted on April 22, 2008
The 2008 edition of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States is now available from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. [RJ]

U.S. Earth Day, April 22, 2008

Posted on April 22, 2008
Proposed by environmental activitist and U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. Check out Nelson on the first Earth Day. See also EnvironLink's Earch Day 2008 Online and the...

European Privacy Rules Apply to Search Engines

Posted on April 21, 2008
The Article 29 Working Group has established "a clear set of responsibilities" on search engine companies regarding their handling of user data. The opinion (pdf) states that the European Union Data Protection Directive requires search engines to "delete or irreversibly...

Professional Reading: A Review of "Human-Powered" Search Engines

Posted on April 21, 2008
Phil Bradley take a look at the major "human-powered" or moderated search engines and and discusses the value of this type of search engine in Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and Roundup (Ariadne, January 2008). In the article, he reviews...

Is There a Worldwide Whisper Campaign Against Fair Use?

Posted on April 21, 2008
"Yes," according to William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc. and author of Patry on Copyright. Check out his blog post. [JH]

2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

Posted on April 21, 2008
New report from the U.S. Department of State: "The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress in compliance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act...

Balkan's The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Posted on April 21, 2008
It's a rare thing when a law professor's book is turned into an award-winning documentary film and television miniseries. Rarer still when the book receives critical notice but The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan...

Wal-Mart Stores Leads the Fortune 500 Again

Posted on April 21, 2008
Details. List of Fortune 1,000. Earning $40.61 billion in profits, Exxon Mobil tops the 20 most profitable companies. [JH]

Global Food Crisis and US Food Policy

Posted on April 20, 2008
Food shortages and skyrocketing prices are putting pressure on many of the world?s poorest nations. A recent CFR.org Podcast interview of Daniel Gustafson, director of the Washington office of the UN Food and Agriculture, examines what the next U.S. president...

Israeli-Palestinian Crisis Guide

Posted on April 20, 2008
CFR.org has released the latest installment of its award-winning Crisis Guide series. The newest guide takes an in-depth look at the history and complex political dynamics surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [JH]

Undercover GAO Investigators Purchase Sensitive and Stolen US Military Items on eBay and Craigslist

Posted on April 19, 2008
On April 10, 2008, the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigated the sale of sensitive, in-demand military technologies and supplies on Internet sites such as eBay and Craigslist...

Women and Nation-Building

Posted on April 19, 2008
New report from the RAND Corporation: "This study examines gender-specific impacts of conflict and post-conflict and the ways in which events in these contexts may affect women differently than they affect men. It analyzes the roles of women in the...

Friday Fun: Do Robots Have Too Much Power Over Our Lives

Posted on April 18, 2008
Panelists on Onion News discuss whether robots have been given too much power. President Executron pandering to robotic special interest groups, the automated police force "just doing its job" and what ever happened to the subservience chip are among the...

Violence Against Women, WHO and CRS Reports

Posted on April 18, 2008
From the UN Pulse: "The World Health Organization (WHO) has published Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women. This report presents initial results based on interviews with 24 000 women. The report concludes with 15 recommendations to...

Regulatory Resource Center

Posted on April 18, 2008
New resource from OMB Watch: "The Resource Center provides tips for advocates who want to get involved in regulatory decision making and educational resources for anyone interested in how the federal regulatory process works." [RJ]

Constitutional Interpretation: Justice Thomas and Cass Sunstein

Posted on April 18, 2008
Check out Justice Thomas on Constitutional interpretation (Wall Street Journal and Cass Sunstein's (Chicago) response in The New Republic. [JH]

The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs

Posted on April 18, 2008
According to The Guardian. [JH]

Robert Bennett Memoir Recommended from Tomorrow's Litigators (Law Students)

Posted on April 18, 2008
[Bennett*s legal career narrative] chronicles his highest-profile cases, often supplemented with detailed trial transcripts of his cross-examinations. These sections are likely to impress fellow trial lawyers or those familiar with trial practice. To the layperson, the skillfulness may be lost...

Midwest Regional Conference on International Justice

Posted on April 18, 2008
The Midwest Regional Conference on International Justice "The International Criminal Court 10 Years After the Rome Conference" will be held Friday, April 25, 2008 at the Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center from 8:30am-5:30pm. Notable speakers on the past...

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