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Findlaw Case Summaries: Criminal Law and Procedure March 21-25, 2011
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw March 21-25, 2011. United States First Circuit, 03/22/2011 US v. Werra, No. 09-1593 Conviction and sentencing of defendant is reversed because stop-and-frisk conducted on him after law enforcement officers forced their way…
Findlaw Case Summaries: Constitutional Law March 21-25, 2011
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw March 25, 2011. United States First Circuit, 03/24/2011 Decotiis v. Whittemore, No. 10-1242 In a First Amendment dispute involving allegations of retaliation through adverse employment action, Rule 12(b)(6) dismissals by district court…
Findlaw Case Summaries: New York Court of Appeals. March 25, 2011.
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw March 25, 2011. Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law In the Matter of Madeline Acosta, No. 36 In a dispute over the scope of Correction Law Section 75, dismissal by trial court…
Book Review: The Fears Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial
TITLE: The Fear Within SUBTITLE: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial AUTHOR: Scott Martelle PUBLICATION DATE: May 2011 PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press PAGE COUNT: 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4938-5 (Cloth) PRICE: $26.95 (Cloth) The author is a freelance journalist and writer with expertise in American history. Martelle details the 1948…
Conference: Women Legal 2011
Described by ARK Group USA a primary sponsor as a highly-interactive forum connecting law firms and their clients to advance the increasingly-important dialogue on gender diversity June 8, 2011 ~ New York, NY CLE approved in most states! Is the “business of law” itself a detriment to the retention and…
Gangs in a New Jersey County
The following is a link to a a listing of towns in Union County New Jersey and the number of gangs reported to be established in each town, even many of the smaller ones. One reason for publishing this post is that we suspect this particular article may point to…
Book Review: The Eichmann Trial
TITLE: The Eichmann Trial AUTHOR: Deborah E. Lipstadt PUBLICATION DATE: March 2011 PUBLISHER: Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8052-4260-7 PRICE: $23.95 The author is a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University and has written extensively about the Holocaust. In her new…
Book Review: Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques
We are pleased to presnet the following review of Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies and Techniques by Ronald H. Clark and others as acknowledged below. The review was prepared by our Senior Law Librarian for Public Access, Theodore Pollack Title: Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques Author: Ronald H. Clark,…
AALL: Network Neutrality Update – January 2011
David Badertscher Network Neutrality (Net neutrality) is a principle that expresses the concept that all Internet traffic must be treated equally regardless of possible economic and other incentives to do otherwise. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) strongly supports Net neutrality and is a member of Save the Internet…