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Findlaw Case Summaries: New York Court of Appeals. March 25, 2011.

To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw March 25, 2011. Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law In the Matter of Madeline Acosta, No. 36 In a dispute over the scope of Correction Law Section 75, dismissal by trial court…

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Book Review: The Fears Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial

TITLE: The Fear Within SUBTITLE: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial AUTHOR: Scott Martelle PUBLICATION DATE: May 2011 PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press PAGE COUNT: 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8135-4938-5 (Cloth) PRICE: $26.95 (Cloth) The author is a freelance journalist and writer with expertise in American history. Martelle details the 1948…

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Book Review: The Eichmann Trial

TITLE: The Eichmann Trial AUTHOR: Deborah E. Lipstadt PUBLICATION DATE: March 2011 PUBLISHER: Schocken Books, a division of Random House, Inc. PAGE COUNT: 272 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8052-4260-7 PRICE: $23.95 The author is a professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University and has written extensively about the Holocaust. In her new…

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Book Review: Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques

We are pleased to presnet the following review of Cross Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies and Techniques by Ronald H. Clark and others as acknowledged below. The review was prepared by our Senior Law Librarian for Public Access, Theodore Pollack Title: Cross-Examination Handbook: Persuasion, Strategies, and Techniques Author: Ronald H. Clark,…

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AALL: Network Neutrality Update – January 2011

David Badertscher Network Neutrality (Net neutrality) is a principle that expresses the concept that all Internet traffic must be treated equally regardless of possible economic and other incentives to do otherwise. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) strongly supports Net neutrality and is a member of Save the Internet…

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Internet Society Statement on Egypt’s Internet Shutdown

Source: The Internet Society Newsletter Volume 10 Number 1 January 2011. On 28 January, Lynn St.Amour President and CEO, and the Internet Society Board of Trustees issued a statement on the Egypt’s Internet shutdown: “We are following the current events in Egypt with concern as it appears that all incoming…

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New BJS Study: U.S. Prison – Probation – Parole Population Drops in 2009

A recently released U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics Study presents data on the number of adults under some form of correctional supervision at the end of the year 2009. The Report discussing the Study was released on December 21, 2010; it is part of the Correctional Population of the United…

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Library Announcement: Online Access to Temporary Comission on Revision of New York Penal Law and Criminal Code (1961-1970) Papers Held by Library

David Badertscher The New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library (New York County) is pleased to announce a major enhancement regarding access to those Temporary Commission on Revision of New York Penal Law and Criminal Code (1961-1970) papers held by the New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library (New York…

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