Title: Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians
Author: Lesley Ellen Harris
Publisher: American Library Association
CLLB Information Security Newsletter. Volume 2 Number 6 June 2009.
Volume 2 Number 6 June 2009.
From the Desk of David Badertscher
All This Functionality in One Device!
A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Published: New York Times June 20, 2009 The new passion of the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury is raising money for California’s libraries. See article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/us/20ventura.html
SLA Legal Division Program: 60 Sites in 60 Minutes
This year’s “60 Sites in 60 Minutes” program was standing room only! We had over 300 people attend. If you missed the session, or were there but want to see the presenters’ notes, you can go to the Power Point presentation with all the details. http://drop.io/60sites
Thanks again to Gayle Lynn-Nelson and John DiGilio for putting this program together.
E-Mail from Martha L. Foote, M.L.I.S. Chair, SLA Legal Division.
Wyoming Legislature Passes Information Transparency in Government Act
In its 2009 session, the Wyoming Legislature passed the Transparency in Government Act making information as to how state funds are spent readily accessible to the public. The Act requires the creation of a public finance website by January 1, 2010. The website will provide free access to financial reports, financial audits, budgets or other financial documents that are used to allocate, appropriate, spend and account for government funds. The Act also directs that an archive of all information posted will be maintained.
From e-mail by Kathy Carlson, Wyoming State Law Librarian.
ABA Criminal Justice Section 2009 Annual Meeting Highlights
Below are Highlights of the ABA Criminal Justice Section 2009 Annual Meeting program schedule for Chicago, July 30 – August 2. Presentations include a wide range of programs of interest to children’s attorneys to white collar practitioners.
Highlights include:
Presidential Showcase Programs
Findlaw Case Summaries: Constitutional Law 19. June 15-19, 2009.
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June 15-19, 2009.
U.S. Supreme Court, June 15, 2009 Polar Tankers, Inc. v. Valdez, No. 08–310 In a Tonnage Clause challenge to an Alaska ordinance imposing a personal property tax on large oil tankers, judgment for Defendant is reversed, where the ordinance was unconstitutional because it was designed to impose “a charge for the privilege of entering, trading in, or lying in a port.””
Findlaw Case Summaries: Criminal Law and Procedure 22
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June 15-19, 2009.
U.S. Supreme Court, June 15, 2009 Nijhawan v. Holder, No. 08–495 Petitioner’s removal from the U.S. based on his commission of an “aggravated felony” is affirmed, where the $10,000 threshold in 8 U.S.C. section 1101(a)(43)(M)(i) refers to the particular circumstances in which an offender committed a fraud or deceit crime on a particular occasion, rather than to an element of the fraud or deceit crime.
U.S. Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 District Atty.’s Offc. v. Osborne, No. 08–6 In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action seeking the evidence used to convict Defendant of sexual assault for the purposes of DNA testing, summary judgment for Plaintiff is reversed where, assuming Plaintiff’s claims could be pursued using Section 1983, he had no constitutional right to obtain post-conviction access to the State’s evidence for DNA testing.
U.S. Supreme Court, June 18, 2009 Yeager v. US, No. 08–67 In an appeal from the District Court’s order denying Defendant’s motion to dismiss his wire fraud indictment on Double Jeopardy grounds, the order is reversed where an apparent inconsistency between a jury’s verdict of acquittal on some counts and its failure to return a verdict on other counts does not affect the acquittals’ preclusive force under the Double Jeopardy Clause.
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ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter. June 19, 2009.
10 Top Stories June 19, 2009.
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