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Babysitting and the Law
** Please see the June 2009 update (or click on the Babysitting label). ** This is the time of year when the babysitting questions appear with increasing…
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Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
…label for Shepardizing. When I’m speaking generically, I use “citator service.” To take the “Xerox” out of photocopy, or the “Kleenex” out of tissue, I would just refer to it…
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Covid-19 Metaphors: Express Train, War, Black Box, Oh My
…that local arrives at its final destination, it may be wise to label all this research—preprints, peer-reviewed papers, and for goodness’ sake, pronouncements from Donald Trump— with a black-box warning:…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
…and unusual punishment. Tofurkey Producer Sues Texas over Labeling Laws The makers of Tofurkey, Turtle Island Foods, is an Oregon company that produces plant-based products. They have filed a suit…
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License to Print Money? Researching Marijuana Taxation Law, History, and Practice
…in the legal literature, but also in the popular press, in medical journals, public policy ones, etc. 5) Check Congressional and other government documents indexes, databases, and journals, too, e.g….
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Measure 37 and 49 Commentary
Researching legislative history can sometimes require more than plowing through dusty hearing transcripts. Guides to legislative history and intent always suggest searching the secondary literature, e.g. newspaper and…
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Does Your Lawyer Know What Metadata Is?
…discovery: FRCP And MetaData – Avoid The Lurking E-Discovery Disaster, by Dennis Kennedy, in the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and these blog posts. Or just do a literature search on discovery…
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Lawyers, Private Investigators, and Ethics
The body of literature (scholarly, practical, and popular) on private investigators (and their lawyer clients – or is it the other way around?) is a fairly large one, but…
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Don’t let legal publishers do your research for you
…liberating position to take. No longer do you just have to plod through the digests, the reporters, etc. You now have permission to read history, philosophy, literature, science fiction, and…