Monthly Archives: November 2009

ABA Launches Courts of Appeals Website

The ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements has launched a new website designed to provide reporters, lawyers, educators, and the public with prompt, accurate, unbiased information about newsworthy and legally significant cases pending in and decided by the Federal … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving/Exam Hours

Tuesday, Nov.24 7am-9pm Wednesday, Nov.25 8am-5pm Thursday, Nov. 26 CLOSED Friday, Nov.27 1pm-9pm Saturday, Nov.28 9am-10pm Sunday, Nov.29 through Friday, Dec. 11: Sunday 9am-1am Monday – Thursday 7am-1am Friday 7am – Midnight Saturday 9am – Midnight Note: The library will … Continue reading

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Human Rights Documentation Initiative at the University of Texas

The University of Texas Libraries have just launched a digital archive of human rights information from around the world, including primary source material, websites, photographs, video and audio files. Check out this amazing and important resource at http://lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/. (rkm)

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EU selects its first President

The Council of the European Union selected its first President, Herman Van Rompuy, currently the Prime Minister of Belgium.  This new post was created by the Treaty of Lisbon which goes into effect on Dec. 1st of this year. Catherine … Continue reading

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Google Scholar is Expanding into Legal Information.

Google Scholar now has available  legal opinions and journals.  Currently the site  has made available all US Supreme Court opinions, Federal Appeals opinions since 1924, and many Federal District Court opinions.  There are also opinions from state courts included since 1950. … Continue reading

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Nobelists ask Congress for Open Access to Federally Funded Research

Forty Nobel Prize-winning scientists in medicine, physics, and chemistry delivered a letter to Congress this week asking them to support the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 (S.1373). Senate Bill  1373, introduced by Senators Lieberman and Cornyn, would, within six … Continue reading

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Computer-based Testing: February 2010 Bar Exam

The Board of Law Examiners will allow a limited number of applicants to use laptops to complete their answers to the essay sections of the February 2010 Bar examination. One hundred applicants will be randomly selected from those applicants whose … Continue reading

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Affordable Health Care for America Act

The House passed H.R. 3962 on Saturday, November 7th with a vote of 220-215. Read more on The Hill blog. The text of all bills presented in the House and Senate are available on the Library of Congress’s THOMAS website. … Continue reading

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Veterans Day — History

Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 is Veterans Day.  In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson first issued a proclamation recognizing veterans and marking the signing of the Armistice ending World War I.    For more history on this holiday, see this link at the … Continue reading

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The Justice Gap in America

The Legal Services Corporation recently released its 2009 update to the 2005 report Documenting the Justice Gap in America: The Current Unmet Civil Needs of Low-Income Americans. It comes as no surprise that the number of individuals in the U.S. … Continue reading

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