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In Reversal, New Jersey Supreme Court Allows 'Super Lawyer' Advertising

Posted on December 18, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 18, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that attorneys who are named to lists such as 'Super Lawyers' or 'Best Lawyers in America' should be allowed to include that information in their advertising, reports the Newark Star-Ledger...

Study: Advocacy Group Warns of Powerful 'Big Boomer' Pistols

Posted on December 18, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 18, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Powerful new handguns called 'big boomers' by the gun industry are a growing threat to the nation's law enforcement officers, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center, a Washington, D...

When New York News Breaks, Breaking News Network is Often The First to Know

Posted on December 17, 2008
pstrongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./p#13; pfont size=2As in most places, citizens get their breaking news in New York from television, radio, the newspaper or the Web. But the first hints of something big happening often come from a strip mall in New Jersey and are sent to pagers and computers in newsrooms in New York City and beyond...

With Money Tight, Connecticut Prison Education Program Faces Bleak Future

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource:/strongem Crime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Lack of money has become a problem in the effort to continue offering community college classes at Connecticut prisons, but educators say the benefits to inmates and society must be considered...

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Report Faults Sex Offender Registeries As Inaccurate, Incomplete

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Sex offender registries are often inaccurate and incomplete, undermining public knowledge about some of the nation's most reviled criminals, Justice Department investigators warn...

U.S. Attorney General Nominee Holder Earned Corruption Fighting Stripes in Pennsylvania

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2When Eric H. Holder Jr. first joined the U.S. Department of Justice in 1976, he was fresh out of Columbia Law School, assigned to a public-integrity unit and sent to earn his stripes battling corruption...

District of Columbia Counciol Approves 'Sweeping' Ordinance On Gun Ownership

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Six months after the Supreme Court put an end to the District of Columbia's decades-old ban on handgun possession, the City Council in Washington passed a sweeping new ordinance on Tuesday to regulate gun ownership, reports the New York Times...

Georgia Sentence Prompts Calls For Change in Jury Unanimity Rule

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemCrime and Justice News, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Georgia legislators have began lining up to introduce bills eliminating the requirement that juries be unanimous for a death sentence, days after Atlanta mass murderer Brian Nichols got a life sentence instead of condemnation when three jurors declined to vote for executioin...

Illinois Requires Written Policies On Biometric Data Retention

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemLexology, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pa href=http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670amp;l=6LSFMWC target=_blankstrongfont size=2span class=territoryfont color=#622567Illinois/font/spanfont color=#3e3d40 - Illinois requires written policies on biometric data retention/font/font/strong/abr/font size=2font color=#aea400span class=firmstrongNeal Gerber amp; Eisenberg LLP/strong/spanbr//fontPrivate entities that collect or otherwise possess biometric information or biometric identifiers are now subject to certain restrictions regarding that information and must develop and make available to the public a written policy regarding the entities' retention and destruction of such information, pursuant to a recently enacted Illinois law (see 740 ILCS 14)...

Secret Workplace Ballot Deserves Preservation

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemLexology, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pa href=http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670amp;l=6LSFMTT target=_blankstrongfont color=#3e3d40 size=2Secret workplace ballot deserves preservation/font/strong/abr/font size=2font color=#aea400span class=firmstrongDinsmore amp; Shohl LLP/strong/spanbr//fontIf you support a secret ballot election when voting in the congressional elections, you need not allow Congress to throw out the secret ballot election when it's your turn to vote in the workplace...

Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency Releases Recommendations

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemLexology, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pa href=http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670amp;l=6LSFMT9 target=_blankstrongfont color=#3e3d40 size=2Commission on cyber security for the 44th presidency releases recommendations/font/strong/abr/font size=2font color=#aea400span class=firmstrongSonnenschein Nath amp; Rosenthal LLP/strong/spanbr//fontThe Center for Strategic amp; International Studies (CSIS) released the final report of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency on Monday, December 8, 2008/font...

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act's Final Rule

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemLexology, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pa href=http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670amp;l=6LSFMT6 target=_blankstrongfont color=#3e3d40 size=2The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act's final rule: better late than never or better left unsaid?/font/strong/abr/font size=2font color=#aea400span class=firmstrongPaul Hastings Janofsky amp; Walker LLP/strong/spanbr//fontOn November 12, 2008, over 16 months after the statutory deadline, the Department of Treasury (the 'Treasury') and Federal Reserve Board (the 'Board') (collectively, the 'Agencies') jointly published the final rule (the 'Rule') implementing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 ('UIGEA' or the 'Act')...

Microsoft Issuing Emergency Patch for Internet Explorer

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemInformationWeek Daily Newsletter, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pa href=http://links.techwebnewsletters.com/ctt?kn=93amp;m=30706663amp;r=MTI2ODY1NDQ4MgS2amp;b=0amp;j=NDQwMzE2MTcS1amp;mt=1amp;rt=0 name=www_informationweek_com_news_s(6) target=_blankstrongfont size=2Microsoft Issuing Emergency Patch For Internet Explorer/font/strong/abr/font size=2Without the fix, hackers have the potential to access a computer's memory space, causing IE to exit unexpectedly, in a state that can be exploited...

Selected Articles: Governor Paterson and the New York Budget

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2Selections from search run on Google News Alert Service, December 17, 2008:/font/p#13; pfont size=2/font#13; /ptable cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 border=0tbodytrtda href=http://www.google.com/url?sa=Xamp;q=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/nyregion/17pension...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines December 17, 2008

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2strongSource: /strongemNLJ.com, /emDecember 17, 2008./font/p#13; pfont size=2Subscription needed for online access: /font/p#13; pa href=http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp target=_blankfont size=2http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp/font/a/p#13; pbr/!--commentsListSize 0--!-- siteDateFormat MMMM d, yyyy --!-- December 22, 2008 --!-- Style = headlineSummaryKickerNewsletter --font color=#336699 size=2ba class=headline href=http://alm...

Selected References: New York Unified Court System

Posted on December 17, 2008
pfont size=2Occasionally we post selected references from various sources including the web which mention the State of New York Unified Court System.� The following references are selections from a Google News Alert Service searh on December 17, 2008:/font/p#13; p#13; /ptable cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 border=0tbodytrtda href=http://www...

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

Posted on December 17, 2008
strongfont size=1#13; pfont size=2Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible� through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

Blagojevich, Senate Seat: Just Bad Language in Legal Gray Area?

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, December 16, 2008. "U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for plotting to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, but some lawyers suggest that the juiciest part of the case may be less than airtight, says the New York Times...

Scandal Forces JEHT Foundation to Close, Imperiling Justice Projects

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, December 16, 2008. "The New York-based grant maker JEHT Foundation, a major funder in criminal justice, will abruptly closed its doors because its primary donor's money was lost by Bernard Madoff, who has been charged with operating a scheme that bilked at least $20 billion from investors...

Cocaine Availability Reported Declining in Many Cities

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, December 16, 2008. "Mexican drug trafficking organizations are expanding their control of U.S. markets but appear to be struggling to keep cocaine and other illegal drugs on U.S. streets, says the new National Drug Threat Assessment report quoted by the Los Angeles Times...

Placement: Resident Librarian -- Georgetown University Law Center

Posted on December 16, 2008
� Georgetown Law Library Resident Librarian Georgetown Law Library seeks a Resident Librarian.� The Residency is a two-year program designed to attract candidates from under represented backgrounds to the challenging and rewarding profession of law librarianship...

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

Posted on December 16, 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: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 �� 1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines December 16, 2008

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: NLJ.COM, December 16, 2008. Subscription needed for online�access:�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp�� FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Lawyers from Florida to New York besieged by Madoff investors "New York and South Florida lawyers spent the weekend fielding calls from panicked clients who lost millions in a $50 billion alleged fraud linked to Manhattan investment adviser Bernard Madoff...

Free Internet in Limbo As FCC Chairman Cancels Vote

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, December 16, 2008. Free Internet In Limbo As FCC Chairman Cancels Vote"The proposal would have helped established a nationwide license in the 2,155-MHz to 2,180-MHz band, of which 25% would have been set aside for free Internet access...

Google No Longer Among Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, December 16, 2008. Google No Longer Among Top 20 Most Trusted Companies For Privacy"A consumer-opinion survey found that Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, and other companies outranked Google in trustworthiness and protection of personal information...

Selections from New York News: December 15-16, 2008

Posted on December 16, 2008
Source: Google News Alert Service, December 15-16, 2008: Paterson signs indian cigarette lawAlbany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA"Today?s signing of Senate bill 8146 is a historic day for leveling the playing field for all of New York?s businesses and I thank Governor Paterson for ...

List of Selected Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on December 16, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

New Jersey Law Journal News Update December 15, 2008

Posted on December 16, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed. Subscription needed for online access: Senate Panel Approves Three Judges for Ocean, Two for Bergen"The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday recommended confirmation of four new Superior Court judge candidates, including one whose nomination had been delayed by seven months, and tenure for a sitting judge Joseph Rosa whose renomination was tabled a week earlier...

New Jersey Law Journal State Decisions

Posted on December 16, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the New Jersey Law Journal�Case Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed. Subscription needed for online access: STATE DECISIONS: B&H Securities Inc...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest December 16, 2008

Posted on December 16, 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 required for online access unless otherwise noted: U...

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