Updated to November 25, 2009 Over the past months we have posted a variety of items related to the quest for health care reform in the United States. See our last posting at “Health Care Update as of the Beginning of October 2009. The quest continues. During the last month…
For week of November 16-20, 2009. PREPARED BY: Michael Chernicoff Weighing Life in Prison of Youths Who Didn’t Kill http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/us/08juveniles.html?_r=1 The Supreme Court will hear appeals from two juvenile offenders serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole. Outside of the consideration of the death penalty, the Supreme court…
TITLE: Gay Families and the Courts SUBTITLE: The Quest for Equal Rights AUTHOR: Susan Gluck Mezey PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009 PUBLISHER: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 300 pp. ISBN: 0-7425-6219-0 (Paper) 0-7425-6218-2 (Cloth) PROBABLE PRICE: $27.95 (Paper) $70.00 (Cloth) Mezey (political science–Loyola Chicago) is an established author in…
Volume 21 Issue 6 November 2009. Table of Contents Sex and Race in the Courtroom: Shifting Gender-Role Attitudes in a Changing World Online and Wired for Justice: Why Jurors Turn to the Internet Jury Research for Settlement: The Price is Right? Guilty but Mentally Ill (GBMI) vs. Not Guilty by…
The Maryland Authentication Working Group and the print discontinuation of the Maryland Register are both discussed in the following e-mail from Joan M Bellistri, a member of the Working Group: The AALL Maryland Authentication Working Group has been created. Ideally, this working goup would have been formed before there were…
For Week Ending August 13, 2009. Top Ten Stories. Law Firms Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers Nov 9, 2009, 07:46 am CST Lawyer Pay How Low Will New Lawyer Pay Go? As Low as $110K to $130K at Reed Smith Nov 10, 2009, 11:18 am CST…
For week ending November 13, 2009. PREPARED BY: Michael Chernicoff Looser Rules on Sentencing Stir Concerns About Equity http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125738940063830037.html The Supreme Court cases of The United State v. Booker in 2005 (http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/04‐00104qp.pdf ) and Cunningham v. California (http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/qp/05‐06551qp.pdf), which gave federal judges more flexibility to depart from sentencing guideline, have…
The e-Newsletter of the American Library Association – November 11, 2009.* Highlights: Extending the library’s reach Tom Storey writes: “For 10 years, Brian Mathews has focused his passion for librarianship on students-specifically, how to mesh the student lifestyle with library services. Mathews, assistant university librarian for outreach and academic services…
A Report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) prepared by R. Eric Petersen, Analyst in American National Government November 5, 2009.* Summary Periodically, concerns have been raised about the number and variety of products created to document congressional activity. Other concerns focus on the process for authorizing and distributing printed…
I was delighted to receive the following e-mail this morning from Camilla Tubbs, Chair of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) because it illustrates how librarians are working together to provide an improved information environment for the benefit of us all –librarians and non-librarians alike. Clearly these are the…