Legal Research

Building Canadas Digital Law Library
Over the past year, I have written a series of articles on the theme of (re)building a law library. Obviously, I attach great value to the concept of library as place: my previous column was on that very topic...

JFK Library Releases Digital Archive
JFK Presidential Library and Museum: "The Digital Archives provides access to a growing collection of searchable digitized historical documents, images...

Coalition of Technology Companies and Digital Rights Groups Comment on ACTA to USTR
Joint Statement on ACTA from American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Democracy & Technology Computer & Communications Industry Association, Consumer Electronics Association Digital Future Coalition, Entertainment Consumers Association, Home Recording Rights Coalition, Information Technology Association of America, Intel Corporation, Internet Commerce Coalition, IP Justice, Knowledge Ecology International, Medical Library Association NetCoalition, Public Knowledge, Special Libraries Association, US Internet Industry Association, Verizon, Yahoo! Inc.

Darrow Goes Digital
New (to me) is the Clarence Darrow Digital Collection of the University of Minnesota Law Library. The Library explains:The University of Minnesota Law Library is pleased to provide access to an extensive body of information about the great American jurist Clarence Darrow...

National Library Policy
Should the US have a national library policy? In The Atlantic, David Rothman argues for the development of a national digital library: Why We Can't Afford Not to Create a Well-Stocked National Digital Library System, "Old-fashioned literacy, in fact, rather...

Universal Digital Library
Although many online repositories of books have been mentioned here, one that has not is the Universial Digital Library. This collection, created by a group including Carnegie Mellon university, the Library of Alexandria, and a number of universities from China and India, already has over a million titles (of which 360,000 are in English), and [...

Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

Sex Offender Lists
Registries by State and County

Disability Access
Developers pay $175,000 settlement for failing to comply with the Fair Housing Act.

Apple Inc.
allegedly maintained an illegal monopoly on the digital music market.

UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action
UPS Faces Fair Labor Wages Class Action

Northwestern Mutual
Faces $200 Million Fair Labor Class Action

Alabama Restaurant Association Hires Legal Council to Help Members Damaged by BP Oil Spill
Alabama Restaurant Association Hires Legal Council to Help Members Damaged by BP Oil Spill>

Federal National Mortgage Association
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud