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Factoids from the 2010 Statistical Abstract of the United States

Posted on December 27, 2009
According to the U.S. Census Bureau?s press release for the 2010 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States: Text messages sent on cell phones has more than doubled from 48 billion in December 2007 to 110 billion in...

Napster Litigation Ten Years After

Posted on December 26, 2009
CNNMoney video report about the music industry's victory over Napster here. iTunes tops online sales of music files. Will YouTube be the next to be Napsterized by industry litigation? How legitimate is it to make the comparison by Napster and...

Teaching Bluebook Citation Format in a Research Minute

Posted on December 26, 2009
If Santa brought you a Windows 7 computer and some editing software, grab your copy of the Bluebook and some legal texts, In other words, here's a suggestion -- why not create a law library version of this Research Minute...

Round-up of Practitioner Law Blogs

Posted on December 26, 2009
Marin DUI Lawyer Blog http://www.marinduilawyerblog.com http://www.marinduilawyerblog.com/index.xml Reviews DUI law cases, reports and opinions in California. Published by the Law Office of John Stanko, Inc. California Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.california-injury-lawyer-blog...

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Where is the Legislation That Banned Christmas?

Posted on December 25, 2009
A re-publication of LLB's Dec. 25, 2007 post... Cromwellian apologists, like the Cromwell Association, argue that there is no evidence to support the myth that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas: There is no sign that Cromwell personally played a particularly large...

Senate Passes H.R. 3590, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, by a 60-39 Vote

Posted on December 24, 2009
The health care reform bill was passed in the Senate this morning and sent to conference with the House. All 39 Republicans who were present voted "no." See Donny Shaw's report on OpenCongress and for more information including the full...

Measuring Scholarly Impact

Posted on December 24, 2009
Measuring scholarly impact is not a perfect science but it is interesting. One of the newest tools to measure scholarly impact is a Firefox add-on called Scholarometer. Unlike Brian Leiter's rankings that focus on scholarly impact in the legal academy,...

A Library Christmas Video Promo

Posted on December 24, 2009

A Little Holiday "Cheer" from a Grumpy Ralph Nader: "A lawyer's role is to look out for the administration of justice"

Posted on December 24, 2009
The Connecticut Law Tribune's Patrick R. Linsey reports on Ralph Nader's visit to the University of Connecticut School of Law in Ralph Nader Calls Out Legal Profession, Law Schools. According to the story Nader placed much of the blame for...

Games and Gadgets: Advice for your holiday shopping from the Washington Post.

Posted on December 24, 2009
Looking for some last minute shopping ideas for the geek in your family. Check out the Washington Post's Holiday Tech Guide. Chock full of great advice (i.e., specs) to take into consideration while shopping for computers, smartphones, cameras, gadgets and...

Friday Fun on Wednesday: A social media Venn Diagram to determine your level of ADHD, narcissism, and stalking potential

Posted on December 23, 2009
If you've never seen the website Despair.com, you owe it to yourself to check it out. They sell really funny, cynical parodies of those cheesy corporate motivational posters we're all familiar with. (I have no interest in the company but...

Microsoft Loses XML Appeal: Injunction for Word Feature

Posted on December 23, 2009
Microsoft has lost an appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concerning the use of XML technology in Word. Microsoft was sued by i4i for infringing on their patent and won in federal district court. i4i sought...

A View from the Bread Line, Grisham's Next Novel?

Posted on December 23, 2009
So South Texas law prof Tim Zinnecker is a bit peeved in a tongue-in-check sort of way about John Grisham's reference to "the murky world of federal taxation or the tedium of the Uniform Commercial Code" in Grisham's The Associate....

New ARL-COSLA Commissioned Report Presents Vision for Sustainable Access to Government Information for the 21st Century

Posted on December 23, 2009
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) retained Ithaka S+R to conduct a comprehensive study on the state of the Federal Library Depository Program and to recommend how to respond to changes...

Law via the Internet 2009 Conference Papers

Posted on December 23, 2009
Hat tip to Michel-Adrien Sheppard (a/k/a Library Boy) for calling attention to the availability of the conference papers from the 10th International "Law via the Internet" Conference. The conference was held in Durban, South Africa, last month. Noteworthy papers include:...

Google on Trust: "We adhere to three principles of open information: value, transparency, and control."

Posted on December 22, 2009
Two snips from Google Senior VP, Product Management Jonathan Rosenberg's essay, The Meaning of Open, published on the Offical Google Blog: The foundation of open standards and open source has led to a web where massive amounts of personal information...

New Oklahoma Abortion Law Calls Attention to Abortion Reporting Requirements Across the Country

Posted on December 22, 2009
On December 17, 2009, Oklahoma County District Judge Daniel Owens extended the court's TRO that blocks implementation of Oklahoma controversal abortion law by denying the State's motion to dismiss the lawsuit. The matter comes up for a hearing on February...

The Tail that Wags the Law School Dog: US News Law School Rankings Most Important Development in the Legal Academy Since 2000 According to Leiter Poll

Posted on December 22, 2009
Chicago law prof Brian Leiter's poll asked what were the most important developments (for good or ill) in the legal academy since 2000. It received over 500 votes and the top ten results are now in. About ranking first, Leiter...

Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick: CRS Report on the Copyright Registration Requirement and Federal Court Jurisdiction

Posted on December 22, 2009
From the abstract of The Copyright Registration Requirement and Federal Court Jurisdiction: A Legal Analysis of Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick: Although an author need not register his or her work with the U.S. Copyright Office to obtain copyright protection,...

Using Google's Live Updates to Monitor Health Care Reform Legislation

Posted on December 22, 2009
Open Congress clearly trumps LC's Thomas for tracking congressional developments on what's happening to health care reform legislation in part because of the news reporting feature Open Congress provides but Thomas does not (and isn't intended to do)...

10 Most Infamous Lawyers of 2009

Posted on December 22, 2009
The Business Insider Law Review blog names the 10 most infamous lawyers of 2009. "Examples this year range from Pepperdine Law grad Rod Blagojevich's exit from the Illinois governorship to Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein's confiscated boats to Bernie Madoff's niece...

Paper Sues Wisconsin Med School Over Open Records Denial

Posted on December 22, 2009
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has filed suit against the University of Wisconsin Medical School seeking the faculty comments over the revision of the school's conflict of interest policy. Conflict of interest as in when doctors and drug companies schmooze over...

Google on Trust: One More Point

Posted on December 22, 2009
As Joe mentioned in his post on Jonathan Rosenberg's piece, the entire essay is recommended. There is one link (among many) in the essay that regular Googlers would find useful, which is the preference manager. As the essay notes, there...

The Copenhagen Accord

Posted on December 21, 2009
"The Copenhagen Accord's biggest breakthrough are the pledges that countries big and small are making to curtail their emissions. For the major developing economies, it means they have made first-ever commitments for greenhouse gas reductions that are subject to 'international...

ALA, ACRL and ARL Call for Active Supervision of Google Books Institutional Pricing as "Most Effective Way" to Prevent Abuse

Posted on December 21, 2009
ALA, ACRL and ARL sent a joint letter to the DOJ's Antitrust Division suggesting that ?active supervision of the settlement by the court and the United States will protect the public interest far more than any additional restructuring of the...

UK To Launch Government Data from Single Access Point in 2010

Posted on December 21, 2009
The UK govenment will start making 1,100 datasets available free from a single access point at data.gov.uk next year according to Computer Weekly. Sir Tim Berners-Lee was commissioned by the government to help develop the single data access point concept...

HeinOnline: An Example of a Legal Publisher Listening to Law Librarians

Posted on December 21, 2009
It only took HeinOnline developers about forty minutes to implement Jennifer Duperon's (Boston Univ. School of Law Library) suggestion for having a one-click button from within a publication title to allow a user to search just within that title. See...

Opening: Head of Library Client Services, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, ON

Posted on December 21, 2009
The Head of Library Client Services provides strategic leadership for the delivery of high quality legal research support and services to the Law Society?s members and manages the customer service experience for researchers utilizing Great Library resources...

WikiLeaks.org goes local

Posted on December 21, 2009
WikiLeaks.org thinks of itself as the first intelligence agency of the people. Its mission is to provide an online forum where whistle-blowers can post documents the government, corporations and similarly powerful and potentially corrupt organizations don't want you to see:...

California Appellate Court Denies Polanski Appeal to Dismiss Charges

Posted on December 21, 2009
The California Court of Appeals has ruled against Roman Polanski in an effort to have the case dismissed, and other requested remedies. The Court does have serious misgivings about the disposition of the original case: We conclude that the trial...

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