Legal Research

Making His Case
So why did Justice Scalia co-author and promote a book on legal persuasion? Here Dahlia Lithwick discusses on Slate.com (with a different version in this week?s Newsweek) what she sees as the possible motivation for Justice Scalia?s book and the...

An author explains why he pirated his own book
Techdirt observes that a best-selling author believes that pirating his own book helped sales tremendously: We've been seeing more and more examples lately of content creators recognizing how they benefit from giving away their content for free...

Scalia to Join Supreme Court Book Club; Co-Author book with Bryan Garner
Scalia to Join Supreme Court Book Club; Co-Author book with Bryan Garner : The justice is...

Mail On Sunday Apologizes To Sir Salman Rushdie Over Excerpts From Book
The Guardian reports that the Mail on Sunday says it will apologize to author Salman Rushdie for reprinting statements from a book it excerpted; Sir Salman won a libel judgment against the book's author, Ron Evans, this week...

NPR Interview With Author of Book on Religon In White House
NPR has made available online a 34 minute segment from yesterday's Fresh Air consisting of an interview with Randall Balmer, author of the recently released book God in the White House...

Book Review Supreme Court Decision Makers
In his book, Witnessing Their Faith, Religious Influence on Supreme Court Justices and Their Opinions, author Jay Alan Sekulow, Esq., attempted to test the hypothesis that Supreme Court justices wrote their opinions under the influence of their long held religious beliefs...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

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

Google
Settles Book-Scanning Class Actions for $125 Million

Amazon
Facing Class Action over Book Deletions

Ram Publishing
alleging phone book advertising contract fraud.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

Joke Book
Judy Brown and publishers pay undisclosed settlement to comedians and talkshow celebrities for copyright infringement.