March 2009 Issue The Law Library Association of Maryland (LLAM) is a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL): The March 2009 issue of LLAM News is available for viewing at: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llam/publications/llamnewsletter/Llamnews200903.pdf No password required. Please be patient if the document takes a little while to open. Sara…
March 2009 Volume 34 Number 3. The March 2009 TSLL issue is published and now available for your viewing. Check out the current news. See http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-03/34-03.pdf My thanks to Courtney Selby, Robert Bratton, and Karen Douglas who have stepped up and volunteered to write TSLL columns beginning in June. So,…
March-April 2009 Issue: The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is the largest of New York State’s nine reference and research systems, multi-type library organizations often known as “3R Cooperatives” METRO serves a region that includes the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. METRO has a broad…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. March 16 – 20, 2009: U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, March 19, 2009 Levesque v. Doocy , No. 08-1814 In a defamation action against the Fox News Network, district court’s grant…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. March 16 – 20, 2009: U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, March 17, 2009 US v. Vargas, No. 08-1377 Sentence for drug offenses is affirmed where: 1) the district court did not…
March 19, 2009 In this Issue: Intentional Upheaval: ACRL Report Says Libraries Must Turn Crisis into Opportunity Unresolved: ACRL, “Debate” Over MLS Finds No Resolution At ACRL, One Librarian Looks to the Very, Very, Distant Future Sony, Google Strike Public Domain Deal; Oregon State, BCR Team Up to Offer Public…
In his memorandum of March 19, 2009 to heads of executive departments and agencies, Attorney General Holder rescinds former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s October 12, 2001 memorandum which states that records could be witheld by the Department of Justice “unless they lack a sound legal basis or present an…
Top Ten Stories of the Week ending March 20, 2009: Law Practice Management Layoff ‘Herd Mentality’ Ignores Greater Savings of Pay Cuts, Prof Says Mar 17, 2009, 08:19 am CDT Pro Bono Situations Wanted: Laid-Off Lawyers Seek Volunteer Work–and Get Rejected Mar 16, 2009, 08:42 am CDT Law Practice Management…
Q\UESTION:: In a recent e-mail, someone from Canada asked asked how she could obtain an “official copy” of a Congressional Research Service report, “one from Congress,” not one from the website of an organization such as the Federation of American Scientists. The responses which follow are very interesting; they address…
On March 1, West released significant changes to the Key Number System. Attorney editors have completed the reclassification of over 300,000 headnotes. The improvements include the following: · Two new digest topics: The topic PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS AND CONFIDENTIALITY encompasses privilege issues arising in discovery and at trial and contains expanded…