On April 4, 2008 Patricia Barbone sent an e-mail to the Law Library Association of New York (LLAGNY) listserv in which she listed the following two excellent sources where information about judges can be found.: Judicial Reports is an on-demand service that covers NY Judges. The first profile you request…
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ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News April 2008
Every month I look forward to receiving the ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News. True to form, the April 2008 issue just received is filled with information to those involved with criminal justice issues. Here are some exampled highlighted in the April 2008 issue: Weekly Criminal Justice News Roundup. Legislative Update…
Claims of Presidential Power Rejected in Medellin v. Texas (06-984)
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday (March 26) in a sweeping rejection of powers in the presidency ruled that neither the World Court nor President Bush can interfere with Texas regarding that states’ enforcement of its own criminal laws. The justices in their 6-3 decision, Medellin v. Texas (06-984), ruled that…
CLLB Information Security Newsletter February 2008
While reviewing responses to readers of this blawg, I noticed that many seem interested in postings related to information security. Therefore, as an experiment beginning with this posting I plan to include an occasional newsletter covering topics and issues related to information security. As an added activity I serve on…
Selected Documents and Web Sites: U.S. President’s Budget for 2009
DAVID BADERTSCHER The following posting consists of a series of documents selected to hopefully help provide those readers interested with an overview of the budget and the budget process. It also includes a list of the web sites rererenced in President Bush’s Budget Message.To provide added context I have embedded…
Documents Regarding Economic Stimulus and the General Economic Outlook
Since issues related to stimulating the U.S. economy and the more general economic outlook are being so widely discussed in the news media, we thought it would be helpful to add context to the general discussion by posting a few federal documents which provide an added dimension to the topic.…
Blogging and Virtual Reference at the New York Supreme Court Criminal Law Library
BY: David G. Badertscher The New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library of New York County (sometimes referred to as the New York Criminal Law Library) is located in lower Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall, and State andFederal courthouses. It is one of several Supreme Court libraries located…
Should the Web Be Changed From WWW to GGG (Giant Global Graph) ?
David Badertscher “Why we need to move from thinking about Web pages to thinking about the information on those pages.” http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/45477.html The above quote and link refer to a recent posting by Joab Jackson in which he discusses an idea recently put forward in a posting by the “father of…
Law, The Brain and DSM
David Badertscher Usually four times a year I make a presentation to Psychiatric Fellows associated with our forensic psychiatric clinic. In these presentations I discuss updated reference sources including databases, and review with them various searching and other techniques useful in their research. When preparing for an upcoming session I…