Our Daily Opinion Summary writers have picked some interesting cases to highlight this week, with one in particular cutting close to home. First up, we leave the lower forty-eight and head up to Alaska with AES Corp. v. Steadfast Ins. Co.. The case involved the village and city of Kivalina,…
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Carl Malamud of public.resource.org has a guest post on Boing Boing: Liberating America’s Secret, for-pay Laws. In it, he discusses the problem of laws that incorporate copyrighted technical standards by reference. Because the standards bodies that issue them are in the private sector, anyone who wants to view the standards…
From our friends over at Google Scholar comes word last week of changes to the “Cited by” function within their legal opinions database. For those of you not familiar with this feature, “Cited by” appears as a link under items returned in a result set. For example, the first opinion…
The selections from our Daily Opinion Summary writers are pretty varied this week covering a World of Warcraft game gone bad, a tug of war between two District Courts over Park Service limits of snowmobilers, a suit alleging negligence in the prescription of medications which led to murder, and the…
Here is a rundown of January's highest scoring lawyers on Justia Legal Answers, along with a look at which Justia Dockets legal filings and Facebook posts readers viewed the most. Justia Legal Answers’ Top 10 Legal Answerers for January 2012 Jeffrey Moore, 3050 points, 61 answers Brian D. Lerner, 1,395…
A few years ago, I was visiting Washington, D.C. and stopping by the usual tourist attractions, when I came across this plaque dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Super PACs a/k/a "Independent-expenditure Only Committees" . . . they seem to be all over the news these days, don't they? These organizations, which came to fame through the 2010 Supreme Court Citizen's United decision, garnered lots of attention right out of the gate. In 2010 alone, almost 80 super PACs…
During the holidays, I spent a few days in the great state of Arizona visiting the Grand Canyon. I was awed by the majestic grandeur of the Grand Canyon from when the rays of sunlight first washed over the canyon walls: to when the last embers of sunlight vanished into…
I’m a little behind on this, but in September of this year, the AOC announced revisions to the Federal Rules of Evidence in the form of “re-styling.” The Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules explains: “The revision is intended to make the Evidence Rules easier to read, and to clarify,…
From the Free Government Information Blog (by way of beSpacific) comes word that the Congressional Research Service issued a report on November 30, 2011, titled “Congressional Lawmaking: A Perspective on Secrecy and Transparency.” The 19-page report briefly outlines the history of the tension between secrecy and transparency in Congress,…