CFR Color Selection for 2015!

https://www.federalregister.gov/blog/2014/09/cfr-color-selection-for-2015

Five questions with... Phillips Lytle LLP‘s Timothy Hoover

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/buffalo-law-journal/2014/10/five-questions-with-phillips-lytle-llp-s-timothy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20industry_14%20%28Industry%20Legal%20Services%29&page=all

Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Monday, October 20, 2014 | 2:41 PM

The next article in our 10th Anniversary Series is by Thomas Bruce. He is the director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. He co-founded the LII in 1992. Today, its legal collections are used widely and have inspired the Free Access to Law Movement which has helped citizens worldwide learn about the laws that govern them. Thomas is also the author of Cello, first Web browser for Microsoft Windows. -- Anurag Acharya

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Caselaw is Set Free, What Next?

Thomas Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell

http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2014/10/caselaw-is-set-free-what-next.html

Recent landmark trucking case from WDNY - Graves Amendment

“A landmark decision affecting the trucking industry nationally was recently made in U.S. Federal Court, the Western District of New York.

For the first time, the Graves Amendment, a 9-year-old federal statute protecting car rental and truck companies from liability in operator accidents, was rejected from being used in a civil action against the vehicle’s owner.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/buffalo-law-journal/2014/08/landmark-trucking-case-decided-in-buffalo.html?page=all

You can find a copy of the decision on PACER or Google Scholar. The case Stratton v. Wallace, No. 11-CV-74-A(HKS).

United States District Court, W.D. New York. July 31, 2014.

Research Guide for UN Criminal Tribunals

I thought this research guide, written by Anthony Bestafka-Cruz and posted on GlobaLex, might be interest, especially in light of the topics presented at our recent spring institute:

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/UN_Criminal_Tribunals_Research_Guide1.htm

From SLAW: One Simple Ingredient for a Happier Workplace

The tips in this column from SLAW, a neat web site ("Slaw is Canadian, co-operative, and about any and all things legal") are applicable to all areas of life.  One of SLAW's contributors is Friend of ALLUNY Connie Crosby.

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/04/16/one-simple-ingredient-for-a-happier-workplace/?sf25135103=1

Mining Social Media for Legal Research

I find Twitter to be a useful legal research tool.

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/03/20/class-notes-1-mining-social-media-for-legal-research/

Genealogists can now find FamilySearch and WorldCat records through both online resources

https://familysearch.org/blog/en/genealogists-find-familysearch-worldcat-records-online-resources

Hat tip to Tara Calishain (@ResearchBuzz).

PACERPro: Service Offers a Better Way to Search Federal Court Records Than PACER

Please see a link to Robert Ambrogi's "Ambrogi on Tech" column from the ABA Journal:

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/service_offers_a_better_way_to_search_federal_court_records_than_pacer


I've been using PACERPro recently. I like the ability to move from court to court easily.

Comparative Constitutions Project

I read about this web site on BeSpacific, one of my favorite librarian-written current awareness services (http://www.bespacific.com/).


http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/

Description copied and pasted from BeSpacific.com:

The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare

“New constitutions are written every year. The people who write these important documents need to read and analyze texts from other places. Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using a modern, clean interface.]

HOW TO USE CONSTITUTE? Constitute allows you to interact with the world’s constitutions in a few different ways.

• Quickly find relevant passages. The Comparative Constitutions Project has tagged passages of each constitution with a topic — e.g., “right to privacy” or “equality regardless of gender” — so you can quickly find relevant excerpts on a particular subject, no matter how they are worded. You can browse the 300+ topics in the expandable drawer on the left of the page, or see suggested topics while typing in the search bar (which also lets you perform free-text queries).
• Filter searches. Want to view results for a specific region or time period? You can limit your search by country or by date using the buttons under the search bar.
• Save for further analysis. To download or print excerpts from multiple constitutions, click the “pin” button next to each expanded passage you want to save. You can then view and download your pinned excerpts in the drawer on the right.”

Social Security Death Index Restrictions Now Law

http://pibuzz.com/social-security-death-index-restrictions-now-law/

Law Student Guide to Free Legal Research on the Internet

The Law Student Guide to Legal Research, a helpful flowchart, is worth a look.


http://freelaw.classcaster.net/about/

About this guide

This guide is meant to help law students navigate the confusing world of Internet legal resources.  All resources listed here can be considered reliable and accurate.

About the author

Sarah Glassmeyer, JD MLS is the Faculty Services and Outreach Librarian and Assistant Professor of Law at the Valparaiso University School of Law.  In addition to providing reference services, she also teaches in the First Year Legal Research curriculum.   Professor Glassmeyer speaks frequently on the intersection of web technologies and legal research and blogs at SarahGlassmeyer(dot)com.

About the sponsors

This guide is sponsored by the Free Law Coalition, comprised of The Legal Information Institute and Justia.com.  Get your pens and mugs from the other guys. The only thing they give away is legal information.
The Legal Information Institute is a non-profit organization housed at the Cornell Law School.  Their website hosts a collection of federal case, statutory and regulatory law as well as provides links to government sources of state laws.  Additionally, it provides Wex, a community edited legal dictionary and encyclopedia.
Justia is a company that assists law firms with Internet marketing. They also have a strong public service and pro bono mission and provide an extensive collection of federal law, as well as links to state law.  Justia also has links to useful materials such as forms and subject specific guides.
This electronic guide is graciously hosted by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.  CALI hosts electronic lessons that support the law school curriculum as well as course supplements on its Classcaster blogs.

Citation as DNA: Who’s Your Data’s Daddy?

http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/20/citation-dna-whos-datas-daddy

Two new web sites offer platforms for crowdsourced legal research

From Robert Ambrogi's column in ABA Journal:

http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2014/01/two-sites-offer-platforms-crowdsourced-legal-research.html