Articles Posted in News from Organizations

Law Library Association of Maryland Newsletter http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llam/publications/llamnewsletter/Llamnews200809%20(2).pdf No password required. Please be patient if the document takes a little while to open.

“The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis less than two hours before he was to be put to death by lethal injection yesterday, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Davis, 39, sits on death row for the 1989, killing of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.…

QUESTION: What is your policy on cell phones in the courthouse? Are you able to keep them with you? If not, what do you do with them while you are in the courthouse? Can you use them in the courthouse? SOME RESPONSES: “…The New Castle County Courthouse in Delaware bans…

The Commission on Presidential Debates has partnered with MySpace to create a new Web site, www.MyDebates.org. This site will become available in the days leading up to the first Presidential debate on September 26. The more questions submitted, the more likely a library question will be asked. This is an…

The GD-SIS Publications Committee is proud to announce three new bibliographies ready for purchase. 1. State Documents Bibliography: Washington, DC (series # 3-74) 2. Selective Annotated Bibliography of Delaware State Documents and Other Resources Used in Delaware Legal Research (Series # 3-73) 3. Kentucky State Documents: A Bibliography of Legal…

This ABA voting information website, www.abavoteinfo.org, is a project of the ABA Division for Public Education and the Standing Committee on Election Law, in cooperation with the Section of Administrative Law, the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Judicial Division, the Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice, and the…

September 2008 A special commission appointed by Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the Courts in the State of New York, has issued a Report: Justice Most Local, The Future of Town and Village Courts in New York State, which recommends a significant consolidation of the “centuries-old” local court…

Some of our readers have suggested it would be helpful to have copies of the full text of remarks of all four nominees at the 2008 Democratic and Republican Conventions held in late August and early September. Thanks to both the democratic and republican parties we are able to do…

Prior to the 2008 National Convention fo the Democratic Party we posted the Draft of the 2008 Platform of the Democratic Party. At that time we did not have comparable information from the Republican Party to post, even though we very much wanted to do so. To be fair and…

Lawyer Pay Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, Census Report Shows Sep 10, 2008, 06:57 am CDT “The highest earners in 2007 were men in legal occupations, who earned a median salary in 2007 of $105,233, according to a Census Bureau report. The online report (PDF)…