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 LawLibrarianBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Supreme Court Action: The Right To Remain Silent, Enhancing Sentences Judicially, And Privacy in Motor Vehicle Records tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab468884970d 2013-06-18T12:45:55-07:00 2013-06-18T19:45:55Z 2013-06-18T19:45:55Z Here are summaries of the other three Supreme Court opinions filed yesterday. The first is Salinas v. Texas (12-246). This case is a mess because the Court could only muster a plurality opinion on the issue of whether a prosecutor’s... Law Librarian Court Opinions http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/supreme-court-action-the-right-to-remain-silent-enhancing-sentences-judicially-and-privacy-in-motor-.html A More Customer-Friendly Future for Wolters Kluwer Law & Business? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01910369814c970c 2013-06-18T03:33:00-07:00 2013-06-18T10:33:00Z 2013-06-18T10:33:00Z During the nonsense that was speculation about Reed Elsevier selling off LexisNexis, the question most frequently asked by investment house analysts to me was "who is going to buy Wolters Kluwer's US legal publishing business"? Good question and one that... Law Librarian News Publishing Industry http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/customer-friendly-future-for-wolters-kluwer-law-business.html Is Edward Snowden a Whistleblower? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d68edcb970b 2013-06-18T03:14:00-07:00 2013-06-18T10:14:00Z 2013-06-18T10:14:00Z On June 14th, Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia interviewed EFF's Trevor Timm about Edward Snowden and the NSA leaks. [JH] Law Librarian Current Affairs Information Technology http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/is-edward-snowden-a-whistleblower.html Supreme Court Action: Voter Registration and Reverse Payments As An Antitrust Violation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019103744b0b970c 2013-06-17T11:53:00-07:00 2013-06-17T18:53:00Z 2013-06-17T18:53:00Z The Supreme Court issued five opinions today. Two of them are newsworthy and are covered first. The case of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Ariz. Inc. (12-71) concerns Arizona’s requirement that voter-registration applicants submit documentary evidence of citizenship as... Law Librarian Court Opinions http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/supreme-court-action-voter-registration-and-reverse-payments-as-an-antitrust-violation.html Supreme Court Action: Harmless Error, Water Rights Under A Compact, And Preemption Of State Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab3bbf9c970d 2013-06-17T09:36:44-07:00 2013-06-17T16:36:44Z 2013-06-17T16:36:44Z Here are the summaries of the other three opinions issued by the Supreme Court last Thursday. The first of these is United States v, Davila (12-167). Davila was indicted on 34 counts of filing falsified tax returns and receiving over... Law Librarian Court Opinions http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/supreme-court-action-harmless-error-water-rights-under-a-compact-and-preemption-of-state-law.html Spies Without Borders: The "bad for business" argument may be more persuasive than the privacy argument to Congress eventually tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab27dc9d970d 2013-06-17T03:46:00-07:00 2013-06-17T13:21:37Z 2013-06-17T10:46:00Z EFF commenced its Spies Without Borders series of Deeplink posts on June 7, 2013. From the series overview statement: Much of the U.S. media coverage of the NSA revelations has concentrated on its impact on the constitutional rights of U.S.... Law Librarian Current Affairs Information Technology http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/spies-without-borders.html Milestones in the History of the Collection of Private Data tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab1cec9a970d 2013-06-17T03:44:00-07:00 2013-06-17T10:45:09Z 2013-06-17T10:44:00Z In Spies Like Us: How We All Helped Build Prism (Bloomberg Businessweek), Ashlee Vance makes the obvious case that the NSA has benefitted from the development of the open-source software that undergirds much of the consumer Web. Charles Mahtesian summarizes... Law Librarian Information Technology http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/milestones-in-the-history-of-the-collection-of-private-data.html Do Law Firms Protect Sensitive Data? Cybersecurity in the BYOD Era tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d5f45fa970b 2013-06-14T04:27:53-07:00 2013-06-14T11:33:46Z 2013-06-14T11:27:53Z The Bank of America Merrill Lynch wants to know if law firms are protecting sensitive data and has begun conducting audits of its law firm clients reports ABAJ News reporter Martha Neil at Bank’s new cybersecurity audits catch law firms... Law Librarian Information Technology Law Firm News and Views http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/do-law-firms-protect-sensitive-data-cybersecurity-in-the-byod-era.html PRISM and Privileged Communications under Rule 1.6 of The Model Rules of Professional Conduct tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab1cbf05970d 2013-06-14T02:26:00-07:00 2013-06-14T09:29:07Z 2013-06-14T09:26:00Z Megan Zavieh offers some tips for protecting privileged communications between a lawyer and his or her client at Government Spying on Privileged Communications (Lawyerist). Got to wonder what, if anything, the ABA will say about this situation and how long... Law Librarian Current Affairs Law Firm News and Views http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/prism-and-privileged-communications-under-rule-16-of-the-model-rules-of-professional-conduct.html Friday Fun: Seattle Public Library Sets New World Record for Book Domino Chain tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d4b6d43970b 2013-06-14T00:43:00-07:00 2013-06-14T07:43:00Z 2013-06-14T07:43:00Z From the YouTube description: The Seattle Public Library launched the 2013 Summer Reading Program by setting a new world record for the longest book domino chain! The books used to make this domino chain were either donated or are out... Law Librarian Friday Fun http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/friday-fun-seattle-public-library-sets-new-world-record-for-book-domino-chain.html Supreme Court Action: Natural DNA Is Not Patentable, Even In Isolated Form tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab17b69f970d 2013-06-13T13:28:03-07:00 2013-06-13T20:28:41Z 2013-06-13T20:28:03Z The Supreme Court issued four opinions this morning, and one of them will have major impact on science and what is a patentable invention involving genetics and the use of DNA. The case is Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad... Law Librarian Court Opinions http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/supreme-court-action-natural-dna-is-not-patentable-even-in-isolated-form.html In the Wake of the NSA Surveillance Revelations: Sales of Orwell’s 1984 Go Viral tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01901d558760970b 2013-06-13T04:20:06-07:00 2013-06-13T11:34:08Z 2013-06-13T11:20:06Z In a LLB post about recent privacy articles in the Surveillance Era, Mark comments that "revelations of the sweep of the NSA data collection via PRISM should be measured against Kafka rather than Orwell." I was thinking along the same... Law Librarian Books Current Affairs http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/in-the-wake-of-the-nsa-surveillance-revelations-sales-of-orwells-1984-go-viral.html Is There a Correlation between Firms with Blogs and Increased Revenue? LexBlog's State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere Survey tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0191030edf5f970c 2013-06-13T03:17:00-07:00 2013-06-13T10:17:00Z 2013-06-13T10:17:00Z Hat tip to ABAJ News Lee Rawles for LexBlog's annual State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere at Firms with blogs have seen increased revenue; is there a correlation? (video) tip. From the YouTube description for the below Business of Law... Law Librarian Law Firm News and Views Web Communications http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/is-there-a-correlation-between-firms-with-blogs-and-increased-revenue-lexblogs-state-of-the-amlaw-20.html A New "eHearsay" Rule of Evidence? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef017c381776a5970b 2013-06-13T03:03:00-07:00 2013-06-13T10:05:35Z 2013-06-13T10:03:00Z All things considered, this article seems timely. From the abstract of William & Mary Law prof Jeffrey Bellin's eHearsay article [SSRN] (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 98, 2013): This Article proposes a new “eHearsay” rule of evidence that will permit the... Law Librarian Scholarship http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/a-new-ehearsay-rule-of-evidence.html Government Surveillance And Nothing To Hide tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01910344e90c970c 2013-06-12T11:27:32-07:00 2013-06-12T18:27:32Z 2013-06-12T18:27:32Z We’ve cited Daniel Solove several times here at the LLB. He is “one of America's leading experts on privacy law” according to Jack Balkin, and I have no reason to doubt him. Professor Solove wrote an article back in 2007... Law Librarian Current Affairs Info-antics Scholarship http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/government-surveillance-and-nothing-to-hide.html Childhood NSA Surveillance Disorder? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192ab0ccb62970d 2013-06-12T10:11:38-07:00 2013-06-12T17:11:38Z 2013-06-12T17:11:38Z Will the next edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-6) add a new childhood disorder? Hat tip to Julie Sandlin. [JH] Law Librarian Current Affairs http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/childhood-nsa-surveillance-disorder.html Become a Nefarious Data Dealer, there's an online game for that tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01910337e41a970c 2013-06-12T02:36:00-07:00 2013-06-12T09:36:00Z 2013-06-12T09:36:00Z And the game is called Data Dealer. Hat tip to Ben Schiller's Fast Company Co.EXIST post, Play The Part Of A Nefarious Data Dealer And See Our Privacy-Free Future Up Close ("The point of Data Dealer--a fun online game with... Law Librarian Current Affairs Games Information Technology http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/become-a-nefarious-data-dealer-theres-an-online-game-for-that.html SCOTUS Unanimously Wrong in State FOIA Ruling tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef019103047d87970c 2013-06-12T02:30:00-07:00 2013-06-12T09:30:00Z 2013-06-12T09:30:00Z "Several different constitutional provisions and principles prevent states from discriminating against out-of-state residents. In light of this, it was surprising and troubling that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in McBurney v. Young that it is constitutional for a state... Law Librarian Court Opinions Gov Docs http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/scotus-unanimously-wrong-in-state-foia-ruling.html Price Pointer for WEXIS eBooks and pBooks: A note on S&H tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aaec424b970d 2013-06-11T03:30:00-07:00 2013-06-11T10:47:48Z 2013-06-11T10:30:00Z So the list price for Lexis bundled eBook-pBooks looks like it is a couple of dollars more that buying just the eBook alone and for some titles one cannot acquire an unbundled pBook. Of late, it appears that Thomson Reuters... Law Librarian Publishing Industry http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/price-pointer-for-wexis-ebooks-and-pbooks-a-note-on-sh.html When Will ARL Library Budgets Recover to Pre-2008 Levels? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0192aae1d986970d 2013-06-11T03:23:00-07:00 2013-06-11T10:23:00Z 2013-06-11T10:23:00Z "The trends do not encourage optimism that budgets have turned the corner, and this will have consequences for the teaching and research within higher education and in the market place of scholarly communications internationally," wrote Charles B. Lowery. For more... Law Librarian Academic Law Libraries Collection Development Current Affairs http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2013/06/when-will-arl-library-budgets-recover-to-pre-2008-levels.html