On Wednesday August 4, 2020 Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s ban on same sex marriage in a 136 page opinioon, ruling that voter approved Proposition 8 violates the constitutional right of equal protection. Proposition 8 defines marriage as a union between a man…
Robert Richards, Editor in Chief of the VoxPopuLII Blog at the Legal Information Institute at Cornell has just announced an important and helpful posting “IT and the Access to Justice Crisis” by Judge Dory Reiling, Vice President of the Amsterdam District Court on that blog. Mr. Richards writes: “Judge Dory…
According to the New York Times, the articles published on July 25 are based on thousands of United States military incident and intelligence reports – records of engagements, mishaps, intelligence on enemy activity and other events from the war in Afghanistan – that were made public on Sunday on the…
CRS Report Number 41221, July 12, 2010, Posted July 23, 2010. AUTHORS: Michael John Garcia, Kate M. Manuel, Larry M. Eig SUMMARY (From Official Report) On April 23, 2010, Arizona enacted S.B. 1070, which is designed to discourage and deter the entry or presence of aliens who lack lawful status…
Like others who have expressed their condolances, I felt both saddness and a sense of loss upon hearing that Gloria Dinerman, a prominent Information Sepecialist and business person, had passed away in New Providence, NJ on Sunday July 17, 2010. As mentioned in the obituary below, Gloria will be remembered…
More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent two years developing Top Secret America, a multimedia presentation put together by compiling hundreds of thousands of public records of government organizations and private sector companies. From these records, the Washington Post identified a web of these organizations, both government and private,…
Many thanks to Jonathan Stock, recently retired as Supervising Law Librarian at the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Library at Stamford, for writing this fine, thought provoking article. It has been published in the July 2010 issue of AALL Spectrum and we have linked to the Spectrum article with Jonathan’s permission.…
BY: Paul Morris p.morris54@gmail.com Paul Morris an attorney who is now pursuing a masters degree in library and information science at Queens College City University of New York has just written a stimulating paper in which he presents “…a wakeup call to have archivists start clamoring for an enforceable code…
June 29, 2010 RECENT DECISION Defendant involved in fraud scheme claims that investigators were overzealous in their search Mark Phillips was convicted of securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and access device fraud. In early 2003, the United States Postal Inspection Service began a fraud investigation of Phillips. The investigation…
Volume 3 Number 6 June 2010 From the Desk of David Badertscher Home Personal Computer (PC) Maintenance for Windows Operating Systems Why do I need to maintain my home PC? As with most types of equipment, you must perform periodic maintenance on your home PC to keep it in good…