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QUESTION:
Does anyone know when this new schedule is coming out?
Library of Congress classification schedule KIA – KIX for Law of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas.
From the AALL E-Newsletter, February 2008.*
David Pogue to be Keynote Speaker at AALL Annual Meeting
I am very pleased to announce that David Pogue, the personal-technology columnist for The New York Times, will come to Portland this July as the keynote speaker for the Opening General Session at the AALL Annual Meeting. Each week Pogue contributes a print column, online column, and an online video for the Times. His daily blog, Pogue’s Posts, is the Times’ most popular blog. He is also an Emmy award-winning technology correspondent for CBS News, a frequent guest on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and a regular on CNBC.
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QUESTION:
How many of you have a wiki at your firm? What is it used for? Who is allowed to contribute?
Source: Findlaw Documents:
Indictment Unsealed Against Accused Gambino Crime Family Defendants
U.S. V. JOSEPH AGATE, ET AL .
“The Supreme Court unanimously upheld New York’s unique system of choosing trial judges, eversing a lower court and setting aside complaints that the system was easily controlled by party bosses:”
To see the slip opinion for New York Board of Elections et. al. v. Torres et. al 06-766 and the transcript of oral argument (both in PDF format) click on the links below:
To see the January 2008 list of new titles acquired ny the State of New York Appellate Division Library 4th Department click on the link below:
As many of you already know, significant changes, both stylistic and substantive, are being made to the federal judicial procedure and rules. We understand these changes will become effective on December 1.
Recently we have received some e-mails from the publisher Thomson West alerting us to the changes and providing a link to more substantive discussion and a video on their website. For your convenience we are reproducing two of the e-mails here. The first e-mail was sent of November 14 and the second on November 30.
First e-mail:
“Bergen County, NJ, jail inmates who want to brush up on their legal defense online can do so now from their cells, a move that officials say is a first nationwide, says The Record of Hackensack, NJ. Jail officials have begun rolling out the first batch of 80 laptops – each about the size and heft of a large hardcover novel – to some of the 1,000 inmates who occupy the near-capacity lockup. About $100,000 has been spent so far from an account funded by profits from items purchased from inmates, such as toothpaste and candy bars, to buy the $1,200 notebooks and install wireless connections”.
“The primary reason for the move is safety. “There’s a risk each time you open a cell door,” said Bergen Sheriff Leo McGuire, “and our library was getting too busy.’ Before, inmates who wanted to use the Westlaw research service had to file into the jail’s law library, where 12 computers are crammed into the same space as guards and stacks of legal texts. ‘We should remember that in most cases, the individuals [in jails] aren’t guilty, so they’re still on trial,’ said Edward Barocas of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. ‘They should be afforded their research time, no matter how they get it.’ Fred Wilson of the National Sheriffs Association said it was the first he had ever heard of such a move. ‘Knowing the sheriff, he’s completely investigated any dangers in giving prisoners those pieces of equipment,’ Wilson said. ‘ think it’s interesting. It’s an innovative idea.’ ”
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