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From information provided by Gallerywatch.com, October 1, 2008

Regardless of the final outcome, these two documents combined should provide you a picture of the second bailout attempt scheduled in the U.S. Senate. Even if you do not see this until action has been taken, they provide some some fascinating reading for those who are interested.

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 HR 1424

Sabrina I. Pacifici Founder, Editor, Publisher:

**LLRX Book Review by Heather A. Phillips – We’re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age http://www.llrx.com/columns.bookreview11.htm

Heather A. Phillips highlights attorney John Gant’s contention that one’s title, income, and employer are at best side issues in determining who is a journalist in the day-to-day realities of issuing press passes as well as in larger policies such as the extension of shield laws.

Office of the Inspector General, September 2008.

A report of the investigation into the firfings of nine U.S. Attorneys by the Department of Justice in 2006.

An excerpt from Chapter 1 of the Report:

The following are links to three legislative documents regarding the Emergency Econimic Stabilization Act of 2008 from those included in our subscription to Gallerywatch.com. We are grateful to the Gallerywatch team for their hard work and dedication in compiling this and much more information over this past weekend:

Final Legislative Text of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, as agreed on September 28, 2008

Section by Section Sumary of the Emergency Ecomomic Stabilization Act of 2008 as released by the House Financial Services Chairman, Barney Frank

An e-newsletter of the American Library Association

Trenton library plans to close all its branches

A potential citywide budget deficit of as much as $28 million has led the Trenton (N.J.) Public Library to develop plans to close all four of its neighborhood branches. Library Director Kimberly Bray announced the library board’s decision, which followed an across-the-board 10% cut in funding to all city departments, in an email to staff September 10. Some 60 residents attended a September 23 city council meeting devoted to the closings-the third such meeting held over eight days-at which Bray described three options, all requiring staff layoffs….

Vembu, Sridhar, “Annother View: Why Google Won’t Focus on Business Software”, Government Computer News. (September 27, 2008).

“So what is Google’s plan? It is fairly obvious the company is in it to put Microsoft on the defensive on its home turf, to diminish that company’s offensive capability in the Internet. It is also perfectly clear why Microsoft wants to be an Internet player: as Google has shown, it is a higher-margin business even than its monopoly-profit core business.

So why is business software so much less profitable than the Internet? I can think of two reasons: 1) purchasing departments that know a thing or two about supplier margins and specialize in putting the squeeze on them and 2) sales and support costs, particularly support costs. When you sell software to businesses, they have all kinds of support expectations, which add to headcount. A search engine or a news portal isn’t expected to provide any customer support…”

Law Library Association of Maryland Newsletter
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