Monthly Archives: January 2011

Specialized Legal Blogs

I follow a number of websites that recommend blogs. Inter-alia is one of my favorites.  Here is a blog that Tom Mighell recommends and I like a lot.  I will be posting several of these blogs for you to watch … Continue reading

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Judge Posner Doesn’t Like the Bluebook

In a recent Yale Law Journal article, Judge Richard Posner slaps around the latest edition of the venerable Bluebook.  “I don’t use The Bluebook or any other form book in either my judicial opinions or my academic writings.”*  Of course, … Continue reading

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We are running out of email addresses!!!

No, but we are running our of  IP  addresses. Vint Cerf, known as a father of the Internet, announced that we would shortly be out of IPv4 Internet addresses with the 95% of the original 4.3 billion combinations have been used. … Continue reading

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In Case You Were Wondering

Here’s another one from the Department of Things That Most of Us Don’t Have to Be Told: One cannot sue oneself. Find out who had to be told, and why, in Lee Publications, Inc. v. Dickinson School of Law, 848 … Continue reading

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day

Today our nation celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his contributions toward securing the civil rights of all citizens of the United States.

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Student loans equal lack of character & fitness for bar?

The Ohio Supreme Court has recently affirmed the recommendation of the Ohio Board of Commissioners on Character & Fitness that an applicant be denied permission to take the bar exam.  The applicant had $170,000 in student loans, $16,500 in credit … Continue reading

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Library of Congress Chooses LII for Legislative Information Reorganization

The Library of Congress is updating and reorganizing the way it stores and supplies Congressional legislative information and materials digitally.  The US Library of Congress has selected the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University (LII) to help develop new methods … Continue reading

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