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Official Google Blog: Finding the laws that govern us

Posted on November 24, 2009
Official Google Blog: Finding the laws that govern us:11/17/2009 09:05:00 AM"Starting today [November 17], we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar...

Tech Tidbits: Copyright Matters - The Hill's Hillicon Valley

Posted on November 24, 2009
Tech Tidbits: Copyright Matters - The Hill's Hillicon Valley by Kim Hart currently notes the Google settlement with Authors Guild and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

Global Warming and the Real Truth : Did Scientists Doctor the Data and Silence and Discredit Critics?

Posted on November 24, 2009
We have posted at length previously about the slipshod manner in which evidence is handled in the mainstream arts and sciences. See also Man's History is a question of EVIDENCE: Where was Troy? Where did Paris take Helen of Troy? Greece & the Origins of Writing in Western CivilizationWe now have a scandal in climate research...

The Criminal Justice Leviathan : Who Should be in Jails and Prisons and Why? Right and Left Join to Take On U.S. Over Criminal Justice - NYTimes.com

Posted on November 24, 2009
The United States has the largest population of imprisoned citizens among the civilized nations of the world.But for what reason?As my first mentor at Stanford Law School, Herbert Packer, cogently explained in his book The Limits of the Criminal Sanction, there are many undesirable things in society which are simply not rightly subjects for the criminal justice system, and yet, as Adam Liptak observes in his November 23, 2009 New York Times article,Right and Left Join to Take On U...

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The Wall Street Journal Has The Richest Readership Among Print Publications

Posted on November 24, 2009
CHART OF THE DAY:"The Wall Street Journal has the wealthiest readership among print readers according to a new survey from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, by way of BtoB Online."See how others rank, here.

We Hold These Truths To Be Awesome: The Founding Fathers Give Google Wave A Try

Posted on November 24, 2009
We Hold These Truths To Be Awesome: The Founding Fathers Give Google Wave A Try

Tom Osborne, Beyond The Final Score: There's More to Life Than the Game ? Family, Mentoring, Leadership, Serving (a book review by Andis Kaulins)

Posted on September 30, 2009
The legendary Nebraska Cornhuskers football head coach Tom Osborne was a three-time representative in Congress from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district. We guarantee you a smile if you look at this map of that district. Well, OK, it is not ALL of the state...

Results of the German National Elections, Sunday, September 27, 2009

Posted on September 28, 2009
The German national elections, held every four years, were held yesterday, Sunday, September 27, 2009.There were some changes, but in stable Germany, such changes are seldom earth-shaking, even if the currently ruling grand coalition of the left and the right was deposed...

Statement by President Barack Obama on the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh

Posted on September 24, 2009
Statement by President Barack Obama on the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh:"Michelle and I look forward to welcoming world leaders to the wonderful city of Pittsburgh on September 24th and 25th and we thank the people of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania for opening their city as a showcase to the world...

Pittsburgh G-20 Summit Takes Place Today and Tomorrow (September 24 & 25, 2009)

Posted on September 24, 2009
The Pittsburgh G-20 Summit of the world's leading economies takes place today and tomorrow (September 24 & 25, 2009) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the G-20 - chaired in 2009 by the UK - consists of 19 nations and the European Union - i.e. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, and the EU)...

Nonprofits including New York Law School Scramble for Cash : The Endowments of the Top-Ranked United States Universities Plummet in Financial Crisis

Posted on September 24, 2009
Stephanie Strom at the New York Times has an incisive piece titled Nonprofits Paying Price for Gamble on Finances (September 23, 2009). Go there for the full nonprofit scoop and then return here for some stats on university endowments.We have always thought that the term "non-profit" was a misnomer because it implicitly conveys the vision of eleemosynary people and institutions working for the common good, oblivious to the greedy mammon of money and to the serendipity temptations of the omnipresent evil that accompanies financial motivation...

BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 15-17, 2009

Posted on September 21, 2009
The BlogWorld & New Media Expo takes place October 15-17, 2009, in Las Vegas Nevada at the Las Vegas Convention Center:"The 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, beginning with the exclusive "Social Media Business Summit"(TM) conference on October 15th and continuing with the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and Conference October 16th-17th...

Cloud Computing at the ASIDIC Association of Information and Dissemination Centers Fall Meeting October 13-15 at the Westin in Arlington, Virginia

Posted on September 21, 2009
We note at Newstex that its President, Larry Schwartz, is to lead a session on cloud computing at the (ASIDIC) Fall 2009 Meeting of ASIDIC (Association of Information and Dissemination Centers) to be held October 13-15 at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, to be joined on the panel by Michele Kimpton, Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace (repository platforms to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content), Steve O?Keeffe, Founder and President of Meritalk - the Government IT Network (view their IT Dashboard (beta))- and George Landau, President of NewsEngin (engine for digital and print publishing)...

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (TM) Shows Well-Being in America On the Increase during Obama Administration : Who is Happiest & Healthiest ?

Posted on September 19, 2009
If you think that the Obama Administration is having a negative impact on the well-being of Americans, think again.The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index (TM) shows that American well-being - with small dips in February and July - has been going steadily upward in the year 2009 since an absolute low in December of 2008:graph scanned from http://www...

The Mighty Who ? Hu ! Texas Law School Prof to Head New SEC Office of Economic Analysis and Office of Risk Assessment

Posted on September 17, 2009
Hu Gadarn, the first king of the Britons, during whose time a series of great floods occurred (probably the formation of the English Channel) was "also known as Hu the Mighty ... was said to have brought the Welsh to Britain from Deffrobani (the Summer Country) ...

LawPundit Referred to at the Wall Street Journal Online in the Case of the Mighty Hu, the SEC and its New Division of Risk, Strategy and Finance

Posted on September 17, 2009
The Wall Street Journal online referred to the LawPundit posting on the case of the Mighty Hu at the SEC in its new division of risk, strategy and finance. We have scanned a portion of the page here and added the red circles and red line:

Germany's Top PC Mag Computer Bild Tests the Browsers : Mozilla Firefox Wins, Google Chrome 2nd, Opera 3rd, Apple Safari 4th, Internet Explorer 5th

Posted on September 16, 2009
Computer Bild, Germany's most popular PC magazine with a biweekly circulation of close to 750,000, in its latest issue (20/2009, 14 September 2009) put the five top Internet browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer) through 30 hours of performance tests and examined the programs from other parameters as well, coming up with the following test ratings, based upon a system in which 1 is the best score and 6 is the worst:Mozilla Firefox Version 3...

Incompetents in Congress : A Man Who Can Not Maintain Decorum as a Congressman is Unfit to Make Laws for Ordinary Citizens : South Carolina Wake Up

Posted on September 16, 2009
A lawmaker who does not abide by the rules himself is the worst sort of example for the citizens of any country, and the United States is no exception.One of America's problems is that many of the people elected to the U.S. Congress and other high political offices are more-or-less populist-elected candidates, who are often very popular with the simple folk who elect them, but who do not seem to have the integrity and character required to properly exercise their Congressional or other political offices...

LawPundit College Football Predictions Now at Sport Pundit

Posted on September 10, 2009
In the future our sports prognostications and results are posted at Sport Pundit.

College Football Results, Friday, September 4, 2009

Posted on September 05, 2009
Our call: Tulsa over Tulane 45-9. Result: Tulsa won 37-13 as G.J. Kinne, a transfer from Texas who sat out the last season, passed for 211 yards and ran for 77, while Damaris Johnson added 252 all-purpose yards (60 yards receiving, 31 yards rushing, 85 yards returning punts, and 76 kickoff return yards) that were the significant difference between the two teams, as Tulsa outgained Tulane only 412 to 364 yards in total offense (rushing+passing), averaging 6...

College Football Results, Thursday, September 3, 2009

Posted on September 04, 2009
THURSDAY, September 3, 2009Our call: Troy over Bowling Green 30-24. Result: In a surprise, Bowling Green stunned Troy 31-14, as Clawson and Ruggiero celebrated a successful coaching debut with the Falcons, with Tyler Sheehan throwing for 339 yards on 32 of 44 pass completions and Freddie Barnes catching 15 (!) passes for 157 yards and 2 touchdowns...

Alternative Billing Arrangements for Law Firms in the Current Economic Downturn : Attacking the Billable Hour

Posted on September 04, 2009
In their Wall Street Journal article, 'Billable Hour' Under Attack: In Recession, Companies Push Law Firms for Flat-Fee Contracts, Nathan Koppel and Ashby Jones write that: "With the recession crimping legal budgets, some big companies are fighting back against law firms' longstanding practice of billing them by the hour...

Education and Politics in the United States : The Obama Motivational Speech to American Students and the International Ranking of American Schools

Posted on September 04, 2009
Education is the most important undertaking of any country and so it is admirable of President Obama to offer a motivational speech to American students across the nation. If I were a student today - I would be honored to have the U.S. President want to talk to ME...

Best Little Towns in the USA : Outside Magazine Online Picks Ten : How About Boone, North Carolina : Plus Top 10 Most Popular Postings

Posted on September 04, 2009
While researching the Appalachian State college football team for this football season, we ran across a reference tothe outstanding Outside Magazine Online, which picked Boone, North Carolina, the home of the Mountaineers, as one of the top 10 Best Small Towns in America 2009, writing:"When Lance Armstrong launched his comeback to pro cycling in 1999, he was holed up in a spartan cabin in this sleepy (pop...

College Football Game Predictions Week 1 2009 Season

Posted on September 02, 2009
The college football season opens with some fantastic matchups that will set the tone for 2009. We have seldom seen the opening betting lines so greatly changed down the road as for this season-opening day, suggesting that it will be an exciting football season...

THE 2009 YPPSYS (TM) PRE-SEASON DIVISION I-A (FBS) COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS PREDICT A USC NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Posted on September 01, 2009
We predict a USC national championship in 2009, based on the YPPSYS Ratings and Rankings.THE YPPSYS (TM) DIVISION I-A FBS 2009 PRE-SEASON COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS are based on performance ratings and rankings from the preceding season. Yppsys ratings and rankings are a YPP SYStem (yards per play system) primarily determined by four variables: 1) the net average yards per play gained vs...

OK, Bubba, Where did You go to Law School? Best Quality vs. Best Value is a Hot Topic : How About a Quality of Football Team Correlation?

Posted on August 29, 2009
Jennifer Pohlman at the September 2009 National Jurist has an article on their list of the top 65 "best value" law schools, reporting under the title "Best Bang! for your buck".Hat tip here to Debra Cassens Weiss at the ABA Journal Law News Now and her article, North Carolina Central Tops List of Best Value Law Schools, citing to Paul L...

Top 100 Law Firms in the United States by Prestige According to the 2010 Vault (Vault.com) Rankings

Posted on August 25, 2009
Vault.com has published its2010 Vault (Vault.com) Law Firm Prestige Rankingswith its familiar line-up of "big law".Interesting - with few exceptions - is that the current recession and the substantial effect of the financial crisis on law firm hiring - and firing - practices has had as good as no effect on individual law firm prestige...

ABA Journal launches Legal Rebels Project providing Profiles, Videos and Audio Slideshows about the Leading Innovators in the Profession of Law

Posted on August 25, 2009
We just received this announcement from the ABA Journal:"We thought you and your blawg's readers would be interested in the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels project, which launches today.Over the course of the next three months, we'll be profiling 50 of the profession's leading innovators at http://www...

The Natural Born Requirement of the Presidential Eligibility Clause : Preempted by the 5th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution ?

Posted on August 18, 2009
In connection with our previous posting we have been following - with bemused legal interest - the uninformed and in part duped "Birthers" false campaign against President Obama's legitimate birth as a U.S. citizen, a "natural birth" amply demonstrated by his birth certificate:The U...

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