The Chronicle of Higher Education has a February 21, 2010, article about this book:
“Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Digital Scrum: History shows that intellectual property is more complex than either its creators or copiers care to admit, says a Chicago scholar, by Jeffrey R. Young”
Right to Counsel and the Right to Remain Silent AND the Importance of Reading the Full Case
There are no shortcuts to thorough legal research:
The Oregon Court of Appeals OJD Media Release summary ( 3/3/10), says this, which is concise and perfectly accurate:
Meet up with old and new friends and Benefit for the Campaign for Equal Justice:
You are invited to a free showing of the AFI’s choice of the best legal movie of all time:
As much as this sounds like something from The Onion, it’s not! Of course the fact that it is a true story makes it all the funnier.
Apparently, perhaps in an attempt to reduce shipping costs or lower the injury rate among mail and stockroom employees and mail carriers, Thomson-Reuters is shipping empty boxes to their customers.
Is it a deep plot, maybe to encourage law librarians to pack up, move away, and stop crabbing about big publishers and their antics?
It’s not my fault if you fall over laughing and hurt yourself, but I can say it will probably be worth it:
Excerpt: ‘I have no idea why the James Brown Soul Center of the Universe Bridge is here.(4) What I know is that in 1993, the town voted to name their new bridge after James Brown. He came and christened it with a rendition of “I Feel Good,” and now all the ranchers who do business in this cow town (the ski resort is way up the hill; very few skiers use the bridge) pass by or over a bridge named not after Merle Haggard or George Strait or Garth Brooks, but James Brown….
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You want to know what it’s like to be a peace officer in a small town in Colorado? Here are a few excerpts from Steamboat Today’s police log: “Tuesday, January 19, 12:15 a.m.: Steamboat Springs Police Department officers stopped a drunken pedestrian at 11th Street and Lincoln Avenue. Officers reportedly saw the man walking down the street carrying a pole used to hold velvet waiting line ropes. The man reportedly was extremely intoxicated and could not give them an address or the name of a sober friend, so officers took him to detox for the night. Officers could not immediately determine where the pole came from.”…’ (link to full article: Law Enforcement for the Soul… Center, by Justice William W. Bedsworth)
Read other Justice Bedsworth’s “Criminal Waste of Space” columns (over at the OC Bar Association)
Tom Mighell has his usual handy-dandy tips – wonderful things I might miss since my own Internet-world is pretty small (legal research, mostly). Without Inter-alia, and a few others, I might not think the Web was so World Wide:
For example, see these, which I found from the Inter-Alia Weekly Alerts:
Say goodbye to Februrary and don’t forget that your clocks change back to Daylight Savings Time in less than 2 weeks:
Daylight Saving Time: When Do Clocks Spring Forward? March 14, 2010
There are good arguments for fixing existing political parties, but what if you decided to start your own party instead?
1) Think it through: Do you really want to get into this for the long haul? Learn about political and law making processes: Draft an Oregon Initiative or propose a federal law to one of your U.S. representatives to Congress. (Voting rights for 16 year olds or clapping is allowed only at the end of the State of the Union Address, maybe?) Take a look at this, “Nine Steps to Draft a Bill.” Or read the Citizen Engagement webpages on Oregon Legislature.
2) Learn how existing political parties operate so you can become an expert on what needs to change: Run for office under existing state laws and political party rules, which you’ll find at their respective political party websites.
Oregon Women’s Campaign School
About: “Originally created as part of the Oregon Women’s Political Caucus over 25 years ago, the school is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization run by a board of volunteers and financed entirely through voluntary contributions. The Oregon Women’s Campaign School, while dedicated to getting more women involved in politics and elected to office, isn’t just for women!…” (read more about OWCS).
These sound like itsy-bitsy-TEDs, at about 1,500 times the horsepower. How can you resist?
Here is the March 3, 2010, Ignite! Announcement and here is the link to previous Portland Ignite! events.
(Thanks to Ernie the Attorney for the Ignite! Reminder.)
