On February 20, 2009 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced that it is rescinding the book advertising policy sometimes known as the “mirror image doctrine”. Below is an excerpt from that announcement with links the complete FTC Announcement, the forthcoming notice in the Federal Register, an an article in the…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, February 23, 2009 1. People v. Jackson, 5272, 2369/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2009 NY Slip Op 1289; 2009 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 1218, February 19, 2009, Decided, February 19, 2009, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS…
TITLE: The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 AUTHOR: Lucas A. Powe, Jr. PUBLICATION DATE: April 2009 PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press PAGE COUNT: 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-03267-5 PRICE: $29.95 A leading historian of the Supreme Court, Professor Powe clerked for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas before joining the…
QUESTION: Does anyone have any complaints about the accuracy of court transcripts prepared off-site by transcribers who were not in the court at the time of the recording? Also, what kind of a certification and qualifications do you require for your court reporters in your area? Our government is looking…
QUESTION: Does any one use electronic signatures for documents? We conduct video arraignments with detention facilities around our county and this would be most helpful and much more efficient. Any information you can provide will be appreciated. RESPONSE: There is a difference between electronic and digital. We use a live…
QUESTION: “…We have a defendant charged with child molestation. The child is the defendant’s niece. The defendant is in his 20s, is deaf and mute and family speaks Spanish. The family has created a home sign language to communicate with the defendant. The court has excluded the brother (father of…
U.S. Department of State: http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=12725 Foreign Service Information Resource Officer U.S. Department of State, Washington, District of Columbia As a Foreign Service Information Resource Officer, your progressive and advanced experience in library or information center programs or services and knowledge of current information technologies could lead to a challenging, rewarding…
James Duggan, President of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) includes the following announcement in the February 2009 issue of his newsletter, From the Desk of James E. Duggan.: “Earlier this month, the Government Printing Office (GPO) announced the release of the Federal Digital System (FDsys), GPO’s new digital…
The transition of evidence from paper to digital imposes new challenges to ensuring a proper “chain of custody'” in the authentication of digital evidence. The legal group of Merrill Corporation has recently compiled a report which addresses this and related issues: Report: AUTHENTICATING DIGITAL EVIDENCE: IDENTIFY AND AVOID THE WEAK…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending February 20, 2009: Law Practice Management Last Week’s Layoffs Saved Law Firms an Estimated $100M Feb 17, 2009, 06:52 am CST Law Firms A&O to Ax Up to 250 Lawyers and 200 Staff, Freeze Pay and Ask Partners for Capital Feb 19, 2009,…