Many thanks to Jonathan Stock, recently retired as Supervising Law Librarian at the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Library at Stamford, for writing this fine, thought provoking article. It has been published in the July 2010 issue of AALL Spectrum and we have linked to the Spectrum article with Jonathan’s permission.…
BY: Paul Morris p.morris54@gmail.com Paul Morris an attorney who is now pursuing a masters degree in library and information science at Queens College City University of New York has just written a stimulating paper in which he presents “…a wakeup call to have archivists start clamoring for an enforceable code…
June 29, 2010 RECENT DECISION Defendant involved in fraud scheme claims that investigators were overzealous in their search Mark Phillips was convicted of securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and access device fraud. In early 2003, the United States Postal Inspection Service began a fraud investigation of Phillips. The investigation…
Volume 3 Number 6 June 2010 From the Desk of David Badertscher Home Personal Computer (PC) Maintenance for Windows Operating Systems Why do I need to maintain my home PC? As with most types of equipment, you must perform periodic maintenance on your home PC to keep it in good…
We recemty receoved the following e-mail from the ABA Judicial Division and are grateful for the opportunity to share this column by Judge Dixon with you our colleagues and friends.: Judge Herbert Dixon’s technology column, Developing an Addition to Your BlackBerry in 13 Easy Steps, is available free to the…
Ronell Wilson (Also known as Rated R) Defendant Appellant 07-1320-or The New York Times has reported in an afternoon Alert that the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday April 30, 2010 that Ronell Wilson, convicted of killing two undercover police detectives on Staten Island in 2003, must…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS) *, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ET AL. No. 08-1521 United States Supreme Court Decision: Decided: June 28, 2010 In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution protects an…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 21-25, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08–1498 In a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. section 2339B(a)(1), which prohibited knowingly providing material support or…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 21-25, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08–1498 In a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. section 2339B(a)(1), which prohibited knowingly providing material support or…
Supreme Court Case Summaries: Professor Rory Little’s Perspective A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust These summaries are written by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program at the ABA’s…