To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. Week of December 15-19, 2008. U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, December 17, 2008 US v. Jones, No. 07-2052 Sentence is affirmed where defendant pled guilty to charges stemming from her role…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. December 18, 22 2008. CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HABEAS CORPUS, IMMIGRATION LAW Martinez v. Mukasey, No. 07-3031 Where Petitioner’s state drug conviction could have been for nonremunerative transfer of as little as…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw. December 18, 2008 CONTRACTS, FAMILY LAW, INTERNATIONAL LAW Kipnis v. Kipnis, No. 213 A prenuptial agreement executed under French law is enforceable in New York and prohibits wife from claiming portion of…
Top Ten Stories of the Week December 23, 2008. Law Firms Is Thacher Proffitt Dissolving Before Christmas? Dec 22, 2008, 11:59 am CST Law Firms 100 Thacher Lawyers Don’t Satisfy Sonnenschein’s Growth Ambitions Dec 22, 2008, 08:51 am CST Criminal Justice Don’t Feed the Inmates: Arrested Lawyer Learns Lesson the…
I am grateful to Basil Tilmon of GalleryWatch, Inc. in Washington, D.C. for sending me the following information compiled by Sara Ditta and the CongressNow Staff and am posting it here with his permission. David Badertscher Freshman House Members’ Committee Preferences By: Sara Ditta CongressNow Staff Dec 22, 2008 12:00…
“What happens to your mission-critical… application source code should the vendor go bankrupt? This is when you need a Technology Escrow service.Tech Escrow requires vendors to deposit source code into an account held by a third party agent to ensure ongoing accessibility of the software. Recent research by IDG research…
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, Search run morning of December 22, 2008. 1. People v. Agramonte, 4854, 1660/06, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2008 NY Slip Op 9901; 2008 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 9595, December 18, 2008, Decided, December 18, 2008, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION…
December 2008 Volume 1 Pop-Ups From the Desk of David Badertscher We’ve all experienced Pop-up windows, or “pop-ups,” while browsing the Internet. Pop-ups may appear without any interaction or prompting by the end user. They can be innocuous, such as when used for advertising, but they can be used for…
Source: AALL: From the Desk of James E. Duggan, December 18, 2008. Some welcome news is today’s tough economy, U.S. News and & World Report last week named librarianship as a “Best Career 2009.” The overview dispels the image of librarians as “mousy bookworms,” reporting that librarians have become “high-tech…
From: New York State Archives – Region 1 Newsletter, December 2008 The New York State Archives is pleased to announce the release of its email policy development guidelines. These guidelines are intended as a starting point for state agencies and local governments to use for writing policies and procedures that…