Volume 3 Number 9 September 2010. September 2010 Detecting and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Software From the Desk of David Badertscher Your Computer Is Infected with Malware! You may be familiar with this or similar messages appearing on a website, urging you to take action purportedly designed to clean your allegedly…
Theodore Pollack, Senior Law Librarian at our public access law library writes: “Here is an interesting feature for Google Scholar regarding attempting to locate journal articles that are not easily available in Westlaw, Lexis, or HeinOnline. If you set the preferences in Google Scholar to libraries that you have access…
The National Archives has created a new online public website that features more than 3,000 historic documents, photos and videos available for download, along with applications for teachers to create and share history lessons about the items, officials announced. The new website, DocsTeach.org, offers historic items such as a short…
I often find there is little time to read all of the books I would like, or even need, to and therefore find myself resorting to book reviews. Last Sunday I read a review that to me seemd exceptional and would like to share it with you. David Badertscher REVIEW::…
Apparently the court system in Missouri thinks so. In her article, Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences, publsihed in the September 18 New York Times, Monica Davey reports that “When judges here [Missouri] sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw September 13-17, 2010. Criminal Law & Procedure United States First Circuit, 09/14/2010 Merlonghi v. US In plaintiff’s suit against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), for the actions…
Constitutional Law United States Second Circuit, 09/14/2010 Chase Grp. Alliance LLC v. N.Y. Dep’t of Fin. In an action claiming that plaintiffs’ right to due process was violated by liens placed upon their properties by the City of New York, dismissal of the action is affirmed where the complaint alleged…
Approved by the ABA House of Delegates Sept. 2010 At the 2010 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the House of Delegates approved resolutions that the Criminal Justice Section initiated or co-sponsored regarding the following issues (click on the relevant REPORT # to view the full text of the resolution and…
Kapersky laboratories has produced a special whitepaper focused on how IT unknowingly enables cybercrime by giving cybercriminals access to systems and data through a series of misconceptions and false assumptions. To view this paper click on the link below: Ten Ways IT Departments Enable Cybercrime
Justice John Paul Stevens’ career offers many lessons for those interested in learning about the attributes of a good judge, maintains an editorial in the July-August issue of Judicature, the journal of the American Judicature Society. As the editorial explains, Justice Stevens is someone who sets high personal standards, demanding…