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Crist Reported Dissatisfied with List of High Court Nominees

Posted on August 20, 2008
This article in the St Petersburg Times reports that Governor Crist is unhappy with the list of nominees provided by the Judicial Nominating Commission. The list contains no women or African-Americans. It does contain the name of 2nd District Court...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission Announces Nominees

Posted on August 15, 2008
The names of the nominees for the two vacancies created on the Florida Supreme Court by the resignations of Justices Cantero and Bell have been sent to the Governor for his consideration. There were fifty applicants for the vacancies. Their...

reCaptcha - Thinking outside the box

Posted on August 15, 2008
You know those annoying collections of distorted letters you have to decipher and type into a box in order to use a variety of internet services? What you're doing is proving that you're a human being, not a spammer's computer....

Bush Administration to Pull Teeth of Endangered Species Act

Posted on August 12, 2008
The lame duck Bush II administration appears poised to give the American people one last "gift." Ministering anxiously to the complaints of private developers and some government agencies, they are set to end the requirement that projects funded, built or...

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Speech Wars

Posted on August 12, 2008
In case you're undecided about the upcoming presidential election, or curious to compare the candidates' use of words, Ben Reis has compiled a neat website. Speech Wars allows you to search speeches given by John McCain and Barack Obama for...

Trial Lawyers College

Posted on August 11, 2008
If you admire the trial tactics and personal philosophy of undefeated lawyer Gerry Spence, look at the Trial Lawyers College he established in Wyoming. In operation since 1994, this is continuing professional education for trial lawyers as well as a....

Video of the Week: Opening Ceremonies

Posted on August 08, 2008
Here at NSU Law, the beginning of our new 1L students' careers coincides with the opening of the Olympic Games. Like the athletes, law students will reach new heights of endurance and stamina as they learn new skills and expand...

Florida Bar: Opportunities for Election 2008

Posted on August 07, 2008
Numerous lawyers this November will volunteer to work election polls, staff voter hotlines, and provide voter education in election procedure. The associated ABA program placed over 25,000 lawyers in key locations for the last national election, and is actively recruiting...

Olympic name hotly protected Property of USOC

Posted on August 01, 2008
The US Olympic Committee tracks down and suppresses the use of the name 'Olympic' in dozens venues across the country. The Wall Street Journal details some recent cease-and-desist efforts and their sometimes humorous outcomes. WSJ

"On This Day in History..."

Posted on July 31, 2008
Good news for all you history buffs out there! The Law Library has invested in a membership to NewsPaperArchive.com. Login required -- Please contact your friendly neighborhood law librarian to access. Props go to our very own Professor Bob Jarvis...

Florida Lawyers Assist Homeowners Facing Foreclosure

Posted on July 29, 2008
The Florida Bar, the Florida Bar Foundation, Florida Legal Services and the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and Business Law Sections, along with the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar have teamed up to offer legal help to...

False Advertisements: What is Greenwashing?

Posted on July 29, 2008
Greenwashing is a deceptive advertising practice common today: Examples: 100% natural, environmentally safe, toxic free. These claims are difficult to regulate or detect but are proliferating. Check out the Nolo podcast on this topic - Nolo.

Hein Online: hippest legal info vendor?

Posted on July 29, 2008
I've got to give a shout out to Hein Online, which is one of my favorite resources to turn students on to. Their resources, including PDFs of the original publication format of nearly every law review to its debut issue,...

25 Greatest Legal Movies?

Posted on July 28, 2008
The ABA Journal has published its list of the 25 greatest legal movies of all time Take a look and see if you agree. Hard to argue with the top three, IMO.

Good Luck on July 29 and 30!

Posted on July 28, 2008
All of us here at the Law Library and Technology Center want to wish you the very best of luck on the Bar Exam. Strangely enough, a Bar Exam cartoon won the London Times funniest cartoon contest. Who says there's...

Video of the Week: Real Men of Law School

Posted on July 25, 2008
Law students who cut the sleeves off your shirts and wear your hats backward: we're onto you. This week's video, Real Men of Law School from the 2008 George Washington Law Revue, tells us all the secrets of Intramural Sports...

Digital Wrongs Management

Posted on July 25, 2008
A month after MSN Music attempted to pull the plug on supporting the DRM music files it had sold consumers, now Yahoo! Music is doing the same thing. The online music vendor announced it will cease operations in September. After...

XKCD on hurricanes

Posted on July 23, 2008
We've dodged Bertha, Christobal, and Dolly. (Does anyone even remember Arthur?) But what about the others? XKCD, my favorite web comic, has a handy map of hurricanes to watch out for: On a more serious note, if you haven't started...

Disappearing Legislative History

Posted on July 19, 2008
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sold off a good portion of the national heritage, documents that were generated with public money. It entered into a deal with Thomson West to digitize the legislative histories prepared by the GAO between...

Lenz v. Universal: DMCA Smackdown!

Posted on July 19, 2008
Hat tip to David Kravets at Wired for his piece on yesterday's courthouse dispute which centered on a rarely used clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Passed in 1998, the clause permits victims of meritless takedown notices to...

Your Social Networking Site, Your Sentencing

Posted on July 18, 2008
These days it seems like just about everyone is cruising around on MySpace and Facebook. Friends, family, employers, law enforcement agencies, prosecutors...er, come again? Yep. Prosecutors are now using damaging pictures gathered from defendants' personal pages to cast doubt on...

Today on "How The House Turns" -- Former A.G. Ashcroft Testifies

Posted on July 17, 2008
Juicy stuff happens on C-SPAN3 all the time. It's practically a daytime soap opera. Seriously. Scope this for example... "Former Attorney General John Ashcroft answers questions about his role in the drafting of detainee interrogation rules utilized at Guantanamo Bay...

Privacy Rights Redux : YouTube, Viacom Agree to Mask Viewer Data

Posted on July 16, 2008
Avid Novalawcity readers (you know who you are!) will recall my recent post about the ongoing battle over privacy rights in International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al. Well, they're ba-aack. Privacy rights, that is. Read the Wired...

Information Overload Research Group Holds First Conference

Posted on July 15, 2008
The Information Overload Research Group held its first annual conference today in New York City. The group's stated goals are "to build awareness of the world's greatest challenge to productivity, conduct research, help define best practices, contribute to the creation...

Confessions of a C-SPAN Junkie: "I'll Tell You When I've Had Enough!"

Posted on July 15, 2008
Hi everybody! I'm Stephanie. And I'm a news junkie. My significant other watches ESPN religiously yet fails to understand why I love to bask in the invigorating rays of policy wonkery that emanate from C-SPAN. But I just can't resist!...

Highlighting Japan: Groovier than Hello Kitty

Posted on July 14, 2008
Looking for public information about the Land of the Rising Sun? Check out Highlighting Japan! Featuring articles on current events as well as an index to government ministries, Highlighting Japan also serves as a primary resource for official statistics...

Snuggly the Security Bear Explains Why Warrantless Spying Is OK

Posted on July 09, 2008
Snuggly the Security Bear explains the FISA Amendments Act and constitutional compromise. Apparently it's because the U.S. government wuvs us vewwy vewwy much. Props to cartoonist Mark Fiore. You rock, dude.

Senate Approves Telecom Amnesty, Expands Domestic Spying Powers

Posted on July 09, 2008
Today the U.S. Senate overwhelming voted 68 to 29 to grant retroactive amnesty to the telecoms that aided the Bush Administration for five-years in a secret program that entailed the warrantless wiretapping of Americans, and to expand the government's authority...

Let the Airing of Grievances Begin!

Posted on July 08, 2008
Hearty souls who monitor pending legislation are probably well aware of THOMAS, the Library of Congress web site dedicated to making U.S. government information available online. You know, hawt stuff like bills and the Federal Register. However, I'd like to...

Disney Claims Exemption from New Florida Gun Law

Posted on July 03, 2008
As you may recall, yours truly recently posted about Florida's newly enacted Preservation and Protection of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008 that took effect July 1st, 2008. Unsurprisingly, the state's largest single-site...

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