It’s that time of year again (scary, isn’t it): Daylight Saving Time.
Clocks change on March 9th, 2008. Jump, spring, fall FORWARD (and sadly lose) one hour.
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Clocks Change! This Sunday, March 9th
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Airborne, Inc. Settlement Web Page
The “Welcome to the Information Website for Wilson v. Airborne, Inc. et al., Case No. EDC V07-770 VAP (OPx)” is up and running.
A news story from YubaNet, by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, about the settlement and the case: “Airborne Agrees to Pay $23.3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over False Advertising of its “Miracle Cold Buster Company Now Under Scrutiny By FTC & 24 State Attorneys General.”
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JD Supra (document sharing)
I know the name JD Supra sounds like someone you once dated and remember fondly from afar (good old JD), or maybe it’s a new Toyota model made just for lawyers (the name Infra just didn’t rock anyone’s world). And then there is the citation signal Supra, but you still might want to take a look at the latest JD Supra incarnation.
Jason the Content Librarian blogs about JD Supra and links to others who have too.
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ENGLISH MEDIEVAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS meet the WIKI
Wikis are not the easiest creatures to wrestle into submission, with anyone coming out the real winner. I like how this one was organized and especially like that it was done by someone with one foot in a long, long ago century and the other foot planted solidly in this 21st century: ENGLISH MEDIEVAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS: AD 600 – AD 1535: A COMPILATION OF PUBLISHED SOURCES.
Thank you to Hazel D. Lord, Senior Law Librarian, at the Asa V. Call Law Library of the University of Southern California School of Law.
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2007 ORS Now Online
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New Edition of DSM-IV? Nope, not yet.
In case you were wondering … and this question comes up at least once a week …:
A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) is not due until 2012. See the APA web site for this and more:
“… The next edition of the DSM, DSM-V, is not scheduled for publication until 2012. More information about the DSM revision process and the current activities in planning for the development of DSM-V are available on this website.”
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The Sub-Prime Primer: An illustrated slide-show
Do your eyes glaze over when you hear the word, “sub-prime” or “foreclosure“? Then link to the Sub-Prime Primer, via Ernie the Attorney’s 2/27/08 post, “The sub-prime mess explained (in Power Point).”
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Security and Self-Discovery in the Legal Profession
These are more than trends; these are words to the wise.
Much of what Dennis Kennedy says in his “Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008” rings true to law librarians and we hope, more to the point, to attorneys.
His #3 “Security Begins to Matter …Really” point is one we’ve been hammering on for years. Excerpt:
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THE 2007 ORS IS NOT (yet) ONLINE – NOT, NOT, NOT
Yes, you read that correctly; the 2007 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are NOT online, yet. Yes, we all are hoping it will be soon. (The 2008 ORS won’t be for even longer. I’ll blog soon about how laws are codified.)
When the ORS is online, it will be here, here, here.
In the meantime, you can probably find a print 2007 ORS at the public library (yeah!) and you can also look at the 2007 Oregon Advance Sheets (aka Session Law (look that up in the Legislative Glossary)).
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The Oregon Legislature and the Satanic Versus: Supplemental vs. Special
It’s not enough for the Oregon House and Senate to pass a bill; the Governor needs to sign it.
Here is a link to the Governor’s legislative web page and to his Legislative Action in the 2008 Special Session web page.
(Note: Please don’t shout at the messenger. The Governor calls it a Special Session. Others, in the Legislature, call it a Supplemental Session.)