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Has the Internet Failed to Provide Public Access to Law
That is the question asked by Outlaw in an interview with BAILII Executive Director Joe Ury. BAILII has been working on the Open Law Project, which will see them publish the 3000 most important decisions in English common law to the BAILII Website...

29 Percent of Librarians Dissatisfied with Non-Librarian Decisions, Very Dissatisfied
29% of the respondents to LLB's recent poll "strongly disagree" with the statement "I am satisfied with management's recent decisions regarding my library" (where management decisions means decisions that impact library operations and budgets made by executives and administrators who...

LLB Poll: Are you satisfied with management's recent decisions regarding your library
AmLaw's recent survey of firm law librarians included a question we thought would make an interesting survey open to all librarians. By "management decisions", we are referring to decisions that impact library operations and budgets made by executives and administrators...

Two Recent Decisions Reframe the DMCA Discussion
Two recent decisions from the Northern District of California break new ground in the interpretation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). These cases may indicate how a couple of the most contentious issues about the use of copyrighted works...

Recent decisions of interest from other Circuits
Here are a few recent decisions of interest from other U.S. Courts of Appeals: Behrend v. Comcast Corp., ___ F.3d ___ (3d Cir. Aug. 23, 2011) (affirming class certification of antitrust claims; "The factual and legal underpinnings of Wal-Mart?which involved...

NEWS: Monthly "zip" file of "Most Recent Supreme Court" Decisions
AOC offers the most recent Supreme Court decisions (published and unpublished) in a "zipped" file for each month. You can now download quickly and easily ALL the decisions matching up to the most recent minutes in one fail swoop...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Health Insurers
Dictating Medical Decisions