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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 June 03, 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, June 03, 2008 1. People v. Balic2008 WL 2245717, 2008 N...

South Carolina Drug Arrests Jump 47 Percent in Decade

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 3008. "Drug-related arrests in South Carolina increased nearly 47 percent over the past decade - indicating drug use also is on the rise - says a state report quoted by The State newspaper in Columbia. Marijuana accounted for almost two-thirds of those arrests, with cocaine involved in 29 percent...

Texas Jail Offers E-Mail Service to Inmates

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "When Lenell Ripley wanted to send a quick message to a friend inside the Travis County Jail in Austin recently, she had a new option: e-mail. The Austin American-Statesman says Ripley went to a Web site that offers a way to send e-mails to inmates even though they don't have access to the Internet...

Report Card on Mexico's War on Drug Gangs, 4,100 Killed

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "Mexico is at war, with 40,000 soldiers and 5,000 federal police officers deployed by President Felipe Calderon to secure large swaths of the country against entrenched drug traffickers, the Los Angeles Times reports...

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U.S. Loses Two Money Laundering Cases at Supreme Court

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "The [U.S.] Supreme Court has made it more difficult for the government to prove certain money-laundering crimes, the Christian Science Monitor reports. In two cases yesterday, the court reversed the conviction of a man caught with cash hidden in his car in Texas near the Mexican border, and it refused to reinstate a money-laundering conviction in a case involving illegal gambling in Indiana...

How Los Angeles and Feds Nearly Stopped MacArthur Park Gang Killings

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "In a four-part series, National Public Radio reports on Los Angeles's efforts to combat gang activity in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. Deadly gang violence transformed MacArthur Park from a mecca to a menace...

What Happens To All Those Guns Seized By Police?

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "In New York City, where taking illegal handguns off the streets is high on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's agenda, thousands of firearms make it into the hands of law enforcement officers each year, says the New York Times...

New York City Wins Case As Georgia Gun Dealer Decides Not To Fight

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "In a surprise turn of events on the eve of opening arguments, New York City prevailed yesterday in its public nuisance lawsuit against Georgia gun dealer Adventure Outdoors when federal Judge Jack Weinstein granted the city's motion for a default judgment, reports the New York Law Journal...

How a Slip of the Pen Can Bring Down the Strongest Trademark

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source:Lexology, June 3, 2008. How a slip of the pen can bring down the strongest trademark: an analysis of fraud on the U.S. Trademark OfficeMorris Manning & Martin LLP"The United States Patent and Trademark Office (?USPTO?) is now taking a hard-line approach to misstatement or incorrect information submitted to obtain or renew a trademark registration".

Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Acy ("GINA") Becomes Law

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 3, 2008. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (?GINA?) becomes the lawTroutman Sanders LLP"On May 21, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (?GINA?), landmark legislation designed to protect individuals against discrimination based on their genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment...

FTC Approves New CAN-SPAM Provisions

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 3, 2008. FTC approves new CAN-SPAM provisionsManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved four new provisions under CAN-SPAM, the 2003 law aimed at curtailing unwanted commercial e-mails...

TorrentSpy Must Pay Studios $111Million for Piracy

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 3, 2008. TorrentSpy must pay studios $111 million for piracyManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"In a significant victory for the movie industry, a Los Angeles federal court has ordered TorrentSpy to pay damages of close to $111 million for violating the copyright of thousands of movies and television shows through its BitTorrent search engine...

Internet Explorer 8 Could Break Web Pages, Microsoft Warns

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 3, 2008. Internet Explorer 8 Could Break Web Pages, Microsoft Warns "Among other things, IE8 promises default compatibility with Web standards such as CCS 2.1 and HTML 5."

HP, Microsoft Strike Search Deal

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 3, 2008. Microsoft Strikes Search Deal With HP"HP will install a Microsoft Live Search toolbar on all its consumer PCs starting in January 2009"

Internet and the Developing World

Posted on June 03, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 3, 2008. The Internet & the Developing World"The evolution of the Internet has been full of surprises - surprises that have sometimes resulted in radical changes in the commercial landscape, such as the arrival of Amazon, eBay, Google, YouTube, and Skype...

Contractual Position Available: Maryland State Law Library

Posted on June 02, 2008
The Maryland State Law Library has an opening for a contractual full/part time Law Librarian I. For details and application instructions, please see the Maryland Judiciary website:http://mdcourts.gov/jobs/928002.pdf

How Raleigh North Carolina Embraced Plan To Bread The Drug Use Cycle

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "Police took 16 alleged drug dealers to a Raleigh, N.C., community center. They would be presented with the evidence against them and given a choice: Go straight or go to jail. That choice began their journey to extract themselves from the life they had lived for years, says the Raleigh News & Observer...

Controversial "Streamline" Program Sets Immigration Prosecution Records

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "Federal law enforcers have increased criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to record levels, in part by filing minor charges against virtually every person caught illegally crossing some stretches of the U...

Federal Grand Jury Probes Chicago Police Corruption

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "A Chicago police internal affairs investigator has testified before a federal grand jury about a memo he wrote questioning whether his bosses ignored alleged misconduct that grew into one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit the Police Department, the Chicago Tribune reports...

The Tale of One Long Term Sentence For Crack Cocaine

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, June 3, 2008. "The Washington Post Magazine profiles Michael Short, one of he many who served long federal prison terms for selling crack cocaine. Short testified this year to Congress that before that offense, 'I had never spent a day in prison...

Virginia to Rent 1,000 Prison Beds; Sheriffs, ACLU Critical

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "Virginia's cash-strapped government plans to rent 1,000 prison beds to other states to raise millions of dollars while it leaves hundreds of its own inmates in crowded local jails waiting to be moved, the Washington Post reports...

Carjacking Cases Found Higher Than Average In Oakland California

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "In Oakland, Ca., a city already marred by violent crimes, carjackings occur two to three times more frequently than in other cities of comparable size, an analysis by the San Francisco Chronicle found...

Al;most Half of Maryland Crime Guns Come From Out of State

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, June 2, 2008. "The burglar known as 'white boy' cut a hole in the roof of a Virginia gun store last July and took 40 weapons. Within a month, some of those guns began showing up on the streets of Baltimore, 100 miles away, says the Baltimore Sun...

Google Seeks Dismissal Of Street View Lawsuit

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily, June 2, 2008. Google's Seeks Dismissal Of Street View Lawsuit"Google insists it has the right to drive upon a private road, turn around in a private driveway, and take pictures of private property."

Hi-Tech EEOs Offer Yahoo, Microsoft Merger Advice

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 2, 2008. Hi-Tech CEOs Offer Yahoo, Microsoft Merger Advice"Microsoft and Yahoo seem to hang out in all the same places but somehow keep missing each other."

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

Posted on June 02, 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...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 2, 2008

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, June 2, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Gossip blogs bedevil law firms"Many of the nation's most renowned law firms have felt the public relations wallop delivered by law gossip blogs, those online tabloids that can turn an interoffice memo into a virtual billboard of bad news for partners or associates...

New Jersey Law Journal Top Stories May 30, 2008

Posted on June 02, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jersey 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 Subscription required for online access: Insurer Settles Class Action Seeking Health Coverage for Eating Disorders" Aetna Inc...

New York Chapter Laws Enacted From January 1 through June 1, 2008

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run on June 1, 2008: Sorted by Chapter Law Number. Includes Effective Dates: Chapter Bill No. 1 S6422 NOZZOLIO -- Relates to the confinement conditions and treatment of convicted persons with serious mental illness; repealer BLURB : Cor...

New York Legislature: Activity Report for Week Ending June 1, 2008

Posted on June 02, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run on June 1, 2008. Categories Included: Corrections Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Death Penalty, Judiciary Law, Penal Law: CORRECTIONS LAW: Bill No. A8849A Peoples (MS) -- Establishes the department of corrections shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of HIV No Same as Last Act: 05/27/08 amend (t) and recommit to correction05/27/08 print number 8849aA11313 Bradley (MS) -- Requires the commissioner of correctional services to enter into agreements to house local inmates to alleviate overcrowding in local correctional facilities Same as S 7949-A Last Act: 05/27/08 referred to correctionA11317 Alessi (MS) -- Facilitates compliance with the sex offender registry for offenders without a registerable residence Same as Uni...

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