In a January 28, 2009 New York Times article, “Hang Him Up? The Bad Judge and His Image”, Benjamin Weiser describes a debate that has arisen in a New York Courthouse over whether the portrait of a disgraced judge should continue to be displayed or thrown in a closet. To…
The ABA Criminal Justice Section Juvenile Justice Committee and The Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and The Council on Racial & Ethnic Justice Present; The New Paradigm of Juvenile Justice Complementary CLE Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, a top advisor to President Elect Barack Obama, is known…
The above titled January 27, 2009 article by John Markoff, published in the New York Times is relevant because it discusses digitization, preservation and authentication of records (and by extension information) in terms of continuously preserving these qualities in an authentic state as the underlying technology constantly changes or “shifts”…
In case you missed it, the results from the 2008 version of Marshall Breeding’s Library Automation Survey are available at http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2008.pl. This Survey is international in scope. There were 1,450 responses.
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, January 21 & 26, 2009 1. People v. Lofton, 4649, 2903/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2008 NY Slip Op 9261; 56 A.D.3d 371; 2008 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8795, November 25, 2008, Decided, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. January 26, 2009 CIVIL PROCEDURE, CIVIL RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE Van de Kamp v. Goldstein, No. 07-854 In the context of 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights suits, a…
To view the full-text of this document you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw Former NY Senate Majority Leader Indicted on Federal Corruption Charges US V. JOSEPH L. BRUNO (U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D.N.Y., Jan. 23, 2009) – Republican Joseph Bruno, the former New York Senate…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. January 19 – January 23, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court, January 21, 2009 Locke v. Karass, No. 07-610 In a case involving circumstances where a local union charges nonmembers a service fee that…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. January 19 – January 23, 2009 U.S. Supreme Court, January 21, 2009 Waddington v. Sarausad, No. 07-772 In a case arising from a fatal drive-by shooting of a group of students standing…
The September 2008 issue of the Technical Services Law Library Newsletter (TSLL) Volume 4 Nol 1 is now published.and can be viewed at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-01/34-01.pdf