Monthly Archives: September 2010

International Environmental Treaty Resource

Looking for international environmental treaty information? Visit ENTRI, the Environmental Treaties Resource Indicators site. Funded by NASA and operated by Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network, ENTRI is a cooperative project of academic, conservation, and research organizations. … Continue reading

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Free Online Resources Website

If you are looking for free resources that are available on the web, including databases, lists and rankings, and multimedia, then check out the resource shelf. (http://web.resourceshelf.com/) This website is constantly updating new free material on the web. It also … Continue reading

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Happy Constitution Day

To celebrate, learn more about it by visiting the American Bar Association’s Constitution Day website. While you’re there, test your knowledge by taking the Constitution Quiz, and if you’d like, sign your name to the Constitution. (Post-TC)

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THOMAS Looks Different!

The Law Librarians of Congress have been busy improving the THOMAS website. In addition to the many new social media features, they have also added a State Legislature Websites page, complete with an interactive map. If this is news to … Continue reading

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The Ties That Bind

Would you be surprised to learn that a party can’t enter into an agreement, perform according to the agreement, and then declare that it never intended to be bound by the agreement?  The Seventh Circuit didn’t buy it, either, noting, … Continue reading

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9th Circuit Undercuts First Sale Doctrine for Software

On September 10, 2010 the 9th Circuit decided Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., No. 09-35969 (9th Cir. 2010).  This decision is a blow to an essential copyright legal principle known as the “First sale doctrine.”  The first sale doctrine is a … Continue reading

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Creating your own success

There was much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth after the most recent U.S. News law school rankings came out, showing that the University of South Carolina School of Law had dropped into the 3rd tier of law schools – … Continue reading

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New Free International Law Resource on the Web

The International Law Library, launched yesterday by Justice Sir Kenneth Keith of the International Court of Justice, offers free access to treaties, decisions and transcripts from the ICJ and ICC, decisions of numerous human rights tribunals, UN documents, and much … Continue reading

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Legal Cite Saver for Google Scholar

For those of you that don’t already know it there are a lot of good free legal search engines for cases on the internet. One of them, Google Scholar has really been working on their legal database (See November 19th, … Continue reading

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Judicial Notice of Horseplay

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire, in 1944, noted that “it is common knowledge to everyone who employs labor that workmen are apt to indulge in a moment’s diversion from work to joke with or play a prank upon a … Continue reading

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