Legal Research

Happy 4th of July! Home of the free, land of eroded privacy rights...

Posted on July 03, 2008
The New York Southern District Court has ruled that Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube. See Viacom International, Inc. et al v. Youtube, Inc. et al for all the...

Justia's New Regulations Tracker

Posted on July 02, 2008
New research tool: Follow proposed rules & notices as they progress through the Federal agencies with Justia's Regulations Tracker. Recommended for the ease of search and the display. Justia. HT: VULawcity

Take Your Gun To Work Day!

Posted on July 01, 2008
I was so jazzed to learn of enhanced state aid for Florida's public libraries that I totes forgot about the Preservation & Protection of the Right to Keep & Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act of 2008. The controversial new...

Legislative Overhaul of Florida Public Library Grants Takes Effect

Posted on July 01, 2008
It's official! Today more than thirty new laws recently enacted by the Florida Legislature took effect, including S82 and its companion bill H21. Relating to public library grants that are provided through state aid, the bills revise the eligibility criteria...

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Florida Court Fees Increase - Dramatically

Posted on July 01, 2008
Florida's State Courts have eliminated many jobs to save costs in the last few months. The increase in fling fees on July 1st is yet another indicia of the financial trials of the State Court System. See law.com.

Florida's New Chief Justice - Peggy Quince

Posted on June 30, 2008
Florida's top court has a new Chief and a new first to be proud of: Legal Blog Watch.

This year's important Supreme Court decisions

Posted on June 30, 2008
In case you want to catch up or refresh your memory, the New York Times has posted summaries of the most important opinions of the Supreme Court's 2007-2008 term. (edited to add) Linda Greenhouse's analysis of the term is also...

Video of the Week: Joe Cocker "will try not to sing on a Kia"

Posted on June 27, 2008
I've seen a few viral videos that re-caption music videos with misheard lyrics to humorous effect, and I found this video of Joe Cocker at Woodstock extra funny due to its helpful visual aids: Tip:Teknoids listserv

Gossip blogging and law firm PR

Posted on June 27, 2008
National Law Journal takes a look at the effect gossip law blogs and forums have on law firms' PR efforts. An example: One of the more popular posts* [at blog Above the Law], he said, included that of Nixon Peabody's...

More Live Blogging!

Posted on June 26, 2008
And if you didn't get enough live blogging c/o the SCOTUS blog, then click here to watch the First! Ever! Congressional hearings on transgender issues in the workplace. Major props to quench zine for covering these historic hearings now being...

Live Blogging and the US Supreme Court

Posted on June 26, 2008
Today's Heller decision on the second amendment was announced at the last session of the Court for the term. The decision was available almost instantly courtesy of the live blogging of the SCOTUS blog team from the Court, underscoring the...

Exxon Valdez legal fees - 19 years of litigation and how much money?

Posted on June 25, 2008
The recent US Supreme Court Exxon decision is the latest in the epochal battle over the Valdez oil spill 19 years ago. The American Lawyer breaks down the staggering numbers: AmLaw.

Capital Crimes

Posted on June 25, 2008
The Supreme Court, in a five-to-four decision, ruled today that administering the death penalty in the case of child rape violates the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Kennedy wrote the decision striking down a Louisiana law...

ABA's Secrets of Superstar Associates podcast

Posted on June 25, 2008
What sets "superstar" associates from the rest? Your ABA, the ABA's Media Relations e-newsletter, has a brief review of the Section of Litigation's podcast episode that tries to answer this question by interviewing twelve partners who were identified as "superstars"...

"My name is a footnote in American legal history...

Posted on June 25, 2008
...which I?m perversely kind of proud of," George Carlin said in an interview in February. In memory of Carlin, here's a link to Oyez's presentation, including the written opinion and audio oral arguments, of F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation 438 U.S....

Law Student Blog

Posted on June 24, 2008
Wish I Would Have Known, as its name says, provides advice from law students on how they would do things over. Some of the postings are aimed at admitted students, others are love letters (or hate mail) to law school...

Legal Practice Skills can Trump the Bar Exam in NH

Posted on June 23, 2008
The Daniel Webster program provides a small number of law students the path to practice without taking the NH Bar exam. Chronicle

Northwestern JD in Two Years

Posted on June 20, 2008
The blogosphere united on reporting this news. See the different spins on this: Wall Street Journal ; The Volokh Conspiracy ; The National Law Journal ; Inside HigherEd

New Dean for NSU Law

Posted on June 19, 2008
NSU's new Dean Steele is in the National Law Review - with quotes by Prof. Bob Jarvis. NLJ

Baseball and Hockey Legal Trivia

Posted on June 19, 2008
Baseball: Ken Griffey Jr.'s 600th homerun ball was caught in Florida during a Marlin's game. The resulting litigation suggests a need to change the rules covering homerun balls. See ATL Hockey: Detroit Red Wings fan throwing a traditional octopus on....

Tracking Search Terms on Google

Posted on June 18, 2008
After reading Slaw recently, I discovered Google Trends. This is a graphical interface showing Google search terms logged and news items indexed over the last four years. Here are some trends I found interesting: Law Library as search term is...

Law Librarian (Alternative Careers for JDs)

Posted on June 18, 2008
Above the Law recently blogged about law librarianship as an alternative to legal practice for JDs. A little tongue-in-cheek, but true on most points. ATL

Legal Talk Network

Posted on June 17, 2008
LTN includes recorded interviews on subject relating to legal practice and law schools. Noted lawyers are interviewed such as F.Lee Bailey. Content is drawn from a variety of legal podcasts. The latest addition from podcast Lawyer-to-Lawyer is entitled: "The Emergence...

Why Would a Law Professor Join Facebook?

Posted on June 16, 2008
There are many reasons, according to a comment at the Chronicle.

American Lawyer's "This Week in Law"

Posted on June 16, 2008
AmLaw's new blog is even more useful with the addition of a weekly legal news compilation called "This Week in Law." See the inaugural post here.

Alas, Amazon

Posted on June 16, 2008
It's a sad day for those of us who have cherished the instant gratification of purchasing books at Amazon, and nourished its phenomenal growth with our dollars. Like an over-indulged, spoiled child, the giant bookseller is throwing its weight around....

Video of the Week: Wait Two Seconds

Posted on June 13, 2008
Another video from the 2008 NYU Law Revue. Although card swiping isn't an issue in our library, we would generally discourage you from getting your 80s nostalgia on with quite such enthusiasm in the library! :)

The Market for Summer Associates in South Florida

Posted on June 13, 2008
Law firms in South Florida are featured in this NLJ piece about summer hiring programs. NSU Assistant Dean of Career Planning, Robert Levine, is quoted.

Congress Shall Make No Law

Posted on June 12, 2008
Most of the world's liberal democracies honor the idea of free speech, but only in the United States do free speech rights come close to being absolute. Nazis in the United States were entitled to First Amendment protection for their...

How to stop cellphone text spam

Posted on June 12, 2008
Cellphone text message spam is especially annoying because in addition to having to delete it, those of us without unlimited texting plans have to pay for it. Fortunately, some of the major carriers have created ways that you can block...

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