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The Internet in 2009 is undergoing the most significant set of changes of its entire history, ccording to one of the men who helped create it, Dr. Vint Cerf. At the official opening of the Internet Society’s (ISOC) new offices in Geneva, on 26 February, Dr Cerf explained that technical…
Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm , has been updated with new content. This site aggregates resources of interest to those conducting research on legal information systems. Materials listed include the following: • Articles, Preprints, Journals, Blogs, and Indexes • Conferences and Conference Proceedings • Dissertations & Theses…
RICHARD ZORZA As you may know, the economic crisis is having a major impact upon courts, self-help programs, and indeed litigants. A major focus of selfhelpsupport in the next year will be working to make sure that courts and their access partners continue to innovate in access to justice, even…
Secret legal opinions issued by the Bush administration lawyers after the September 11, 2001 attacks were among the nine that were released and disclosed publicly by the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday March 2, 2009. In a Department of Justice Press Release announcing this action, Eric Holder the current…
By Cynthia H. Cwik and Clifton T. Hutchinson “This eighth book in the best-selling monograph series offers a complete update of Monograph No. 6 focusing entirely on state and federal court expert evidence issues, including the Daubert-Joiner-Kumho Tire trilogy. The easy-to-read format provides quick access to the governing expert evidence…
by Gloria J. Leckie and John E. Buschman Selected as Featured Book of the Month by Informed Librarian Online; http://www.informedlibrarian.com STATEMENT: In the last 15 years, the ground – both in terms of technological advance and in the sophistication of analyses of technology – has shifted. At the same time,…
From the ABA Criminal Justice Section: http://www.abanet.org/crimjust United States v. Hayes (No. 07-608) “The court released an opinion regarding the prohibition on possession of a firearm by convicted felons to include persons convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Police officers discovered a rifle in respondent Hayes’s home. Hayes…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, March 2, 2009. 1. People v. Becoate, 5345, 4009/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 1401; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1347, February 26, 2009, Decided, February 26, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. February 21 – February 27, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court, February 24, 2009 Ysursa v. Pocatello Educ. Ass’n., No. 07-869 In a First Amendment challenge to a law prohibiting public employees from making…