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• RECAP: cracking open US courtrooms

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 422
  Any mention of PACER or RECAP will get our attention.   Just this week, RECAP made the news across the pond.  “RECAP: cracking open US courtrooms:  Access to US legal files is being transformed by a Napster-like sharing system called RECAP” by Bobbie Johnson appeared in the Guardian (11/11/2009).The ...
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• Legal Battle: Convicted Murderer Sues Wikipedia; Wants His Name Removed from Entry

  
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  From the Article: Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted murderer who is invoking Germany’s privacy laws in a bid to remove references to his killing of a Bavarian actor in 1990. Lawyers for Wolfgang Werle, of Erding, Germany, sent a cease-and-desist letter (.pdf) demanding removal of Werle’s ...
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• PACER User Survey from the A.O.

  
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  Want to give the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts feedback on PACER?  Now is your chance.See this new announcement on the PACER Service Center website:The Federal Judiciary has undertaken a year-long, comprehensive program assessment. The goal of the assessment is to identify [...]
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• The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0

  
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  “The One-Way Mirror: Enhancing Participation and Securing Privacy for Government 2.0″Danielle Keats CitronUniversity of Maryland School of LawMaryland Legal Scholarship Network RPSUniversity of Maryland – School of LawGeorge Washington Law Review, Vol. 78, 2010University of Maryland Legal Studies Research, ...
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• GAO — National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative

  
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  National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative (PDF: 154 KB) From Highlights (PDF; 45 KB): NARA has completed two of five planned increments of ERA, but has experienced schedule delays and cost overruns, and several functions planned for the system’s initial ...
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• Bob Berring and Tom Bruce – Twin sons of different mothers

  
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  A couple of weeks ago our friend and hero Tim Stanley from Justia gave his terrific free-resources presentation at our Advanced Legal Research class.  As an in-class exercise the next class session, we asked the students to briefly share some aspect of what they learned from Tim’s talk.  One student wrote:I ...
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• How to access newsgroups when your ISP dumps Usenet

  
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  How to access newsgroups when your ISP dumps Usenet Verizon recently joined the likes of Comcast and Time Warner, becoming the latest Internet service provider to stop giving its customers access to newsgroups on Usenet , a decades-old collection of thousands of message boards worldwide . In announcing its ...
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• Effective FOIA Requesting

  
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  For effective Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting methods, check out the Effective FOIA Requesting for Everyone: A National Security Archive Guide, which most valuably includes:FOIA IntroductionFOIA BasicsMaking the FOIA Work for YouFollow a Request Through the FOIA ProcessClassification of Government ...
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• Effective FOIA Requesting for Everyone: A National Security Archive Guide

  
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  From the Home Page Government records are fundamental to understanding official policies and the decision-making processes of our leaders. They can be vital resources for a journalist following a breaking news story about government misconduct, a military veteran’s family seeking information about benefits, or a ...
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• Motion on Adscam to be moved

  
  Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics — Authority: 555
  I’ve learned that Peterborough Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro will move the following motion at committee on Tuesday: November 1st 2009 represents the fourth anniversary of the first report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, presided over by Justice Gomery. ...
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• Free resources: will they ever measure up?

  
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  Using the terminology of “hooks” instead of Tinkerbells, Bob Berring offers his opinion on commercial legal products, government web endeavors and free legal resources in a video posted here to a Thomson Reuters blog Legal Current: http://legalcurrent.com/2009/10/29/berring-on-free-legal-information/I agree that ...
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• “Unauthorized Copying and Sale by Westlaw and LexisNexis of Appellate Briefs…”

  
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  Earlier today, we blogged about two recent legal news items (here and here) on the copyright concerns regarding California Supreme Court appellate briefs appearing on Westlaw and LexisNexis.As a follow-up, we have posted (with permission) the full text of the letter from attorney Edmond Connor, asking the court to ...
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• Court Struggles to Balance Public Access With For-Profit Interests

  
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  Court Struggles to Balance Public Access With For-Profit InterestsBy Laura ErndeDaily Journal10/30/2009“Three months after an attorney complained that the California Supreme Court was giving away valuable appellate briefs to for-profit firms, the court is still trying to figureout how to get itself out of the sticky ...
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• Facebook Invites User Comments on Proposed Changes to Privacy Policy

  
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  From an Article Facebook head of communications Elliot Schrage posted a company blog entry on Thursday inviting members to review proposed updates to the social network’s privacy policy, and much of it deals with what happens to the content of accounts that members have opted to delete. “Specifically, we’ve ...
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• Brief Fight Likely to End in Compromise

  
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  From tomorrow’s (Friday’s) San Francisco Recorder:Brief Fight Likely to End in CompromiseThe RecorderBy Mike McKeeOctober 30, 2009The [California] Supreme Court sounds willing to end its practice of shipping briefs from all the state’s appellate cases to Westlaw and LexisNexis, which charge for them. An Irvine ...
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• Co-Founder of Wikileaks Interviewed

  
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  From the Computerworld Interview: Wikileaks has published more than 1.3 million documents in the three years since its founding, and over that time the organization has faced its own share of threats and lawsuits. [Wikileaks co-founder Julian] Assange believes a vanguard of politicians and human rights lawyers ...
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• Webcast: Live Event (October 30th): The 2009 Jeremiah Kaplan Institute on Libraries, the Information Society, and Social Policy

  
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  This is the first Kaplan institute will take place at Penn State University and be available live on the Internet between 9am-3pm EDT on Friday, October 30th, 2009. The title of the 2009 institute is “The Right to Information Access”. The United States Constitution codifies the right to free expression. But ...
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• Yemeni Parliamentations Draft a Right to Information Bill

  
  Global Integrity Commons — Authority: 118
  Yesterday, the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) teamed up to host an event on the increasing momentum for the right to information in many Arab nations. The panel mainly focused on the creation of draft FOI legislation in Yemen, although it ...
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• FCC Announces Release of Report on Barriers to Broadband Adoption by the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute

  
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  FCC Announces Release of Report on Barriers to Broadband Adoption by the Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (PDF; 64 KB) The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (ACLP) at New York Law School has released a report identifying major barriers to broadband adoption among senior citizens ...
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• Do An Easy And Free Background Criminal Check

  
  Unambiguously Ambidextrous — Authority: 506
  Boy, the B.C. Government sure could have used this when they were hiring Jim Taylor back in 2000. The government of British Columbia offers a free online database service in which you can input a person’s name and find out whether they have been to court in B.C., or whether they have any criminal records or ...
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