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April 30, 2008
Ohio v. Miko court opinion
Source: http://www.thenewspaper.com/
(use of laser speed guns in Ohio's ninth appellate district)
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April 28, 2008
reports on patent reform in the U.S.
Reports on U.S. Patent Reform
Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) report on patent reform
www.bio.org/reg/media/patent_reform_study.pdf (Feb. 2008)
Federal Trade Commission
TO PROMOTE INNOVATION: THE PROPER BALANCE OF COMPETITION AND PATENT LAW AND POLICY
www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf
(315 pages, Oct. 2003)
Press Release and link to Executive Summary (18 pages)
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/10/cpreport.shtm
National Academy of Sciences
A PATENT SYSTEM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10976#toc
(172 pages, 2004)
www7.nationalacademies.org/step/Patent_Summary_Research.pdf
(3.5 page summary)
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ocga/testimony/Patent_System_for_the_21st_Century.asp
(Congressional statement)
National Research Council
REAPING THE BENEFITS OF GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC RESEARCH
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11487#toc
(188 pages, 2006 book (HTML format) and link to 35 page summary)
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SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for April 28, 2008
A few months ago, someone in the library remarked that Congress was wasting time investigating drugs in professional baseball when there were more important issues that needed investigation. Many people do not realize that the hearings about which one hears in the media are only a small fraction of what Congress does.
Here is a small sample of the Congressional hearings titles the library has received recently:
Gasoline prices, oil company profits, and the American consumer (SuDoc number: Y 4.C 73/8:110-51)
America's public debt: How do we keep it from rising? (SuDoc number: Y 4.F 49:S.HRG.109-985)
The passport backlog and the State Department's response to the Western Hemisphere Travel initiative (SuDoc number: Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.110-177)
Is OSHA working for working people? (SuDoc number: Y 4.L 11/4:S.HRG.110-40)
Green transportation infrastructure : challenges to access and implementation (SuDoc number: Y 4.SCI 2:110-27)
Protections for foster children enrolled in clinical trials (SuDoc number: Y 4.W 36:109-8)
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April 25, 2008
Shepard's (LexisNexis Academic)
Download file (If you get gibberish when you attempt to play the file, see bottom of this entry for further instructions )
The two most popular resources that lawyers use to make sure a case they are citing is still “good law” are Shepard’s (Lexis) and KeyCite (Westlaw). These are fee-based services in the “real world.”
Currently-affiliated members of the CWRU community (excluding alumni, unfortunately) may access Shepard’s via the research database “LexisNexis Academic”.
Here is a video tutorial on how one would access the Shepard’s results for Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000). (Download file before viewing it.)
Members of OhioLINK institutions which subscribe to the LexisNexis Academic database may also access Shepard’s from their list of research databases.
If you get gibberish when you save the file to your hard drive, do the following:
1. Right-click and select "save target as"
2. Save as file type "all file types"
3. Append the suffix ".wmv" to the end of the file name.
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April 24, 2008
Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) Bibliography
Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) Bibliography
This resource can be of positive value for researchers seeking empirical support for their legal issues.
To be updated annually, the ELS Bibliography presently covers the most significant legal literature from July 2005 – July 2007, but plans to extend retrospectively to 2000.
Begun as a database to support the annual bibliography that appears in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS), this service is hosted by the UCLA School of Law. It was conceived by Theodore Eisenberg, an editor of JELS,and Joseph W. Doherty, Director of the Empirical Research Group at the UCLA Law. The database evolved through efforts of law librarians from Cornell and UCLA.
A unique and generous aspect of this project is that the entire database file is available upon request.
(For more details about how decisions were made for inclusion in the bibliography, see the Database Description provided at the ELS Bibliography site).
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April 23, 2008
New Issue Available: Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology
New Issue Available:
Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology
Volume 2, Issue 1
A peer-reviewed and policy-focused journal from Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
To view any of these bepress journal articles connect to the Journal link via
- bepress Law Journals available on The Law Library’s Law Electronic Resources on the School of Law Intranet
or via
- The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
Articles:
Death in Traffic: Why Are the Ethical Issues Ignored?
Leonard Evans
The Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots
Jason Borenstein
Privacy, Data Protection, and the Unprecedented Challenges of Ambient Intelligence
Antoinette Rouvroy
The Legal and Ethical Changes in the NHS Landscape Accompanying the Policy Shift from Paper-Based Health Records to Electronic Health Records
Alan C. Gillies
Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement?
Andy Miah
The Historical Idea of a Better Race
Matti Häyry
Discussions
Letter from Utopia
Nick Bostrom
Letter to Utopia
Andy Miah
Book Reviews
Review of Biotechnology and the Human Good
David B. Resnik
Review of The Regulation of Cyberspace by Andrew Murray
Paul de Hert and Eugenio Mantovani
Review of Nanoethics
Jason Robert
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April 21, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for April 21, 2008
According to GPO, Volumes of the 2006 U.S. Code "are beginning to arrive in GPO's Library Services unit and are being prepared for shipment."
Our library should have the first two volumes, Volume 1 (Organic Laws, Title 1 to Title 5) and Volume 2 (Title 5 to Title 7) on the shelf by the middle of next month. When we receive them, they will be entered in the check-in record, which can be viewed in the library's online catalog (link to record above).
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Combating Terrorist Financing bibliography
Bibliography prepared for the "World Conference on Combating Terrorist Financing" presented by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and the Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP).
Held at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, April, 2008.
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April 17, 2008
Baze v. Rees
U.S. Supreme Court capital punishment opinion
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April 15, 2008
Gov Doc of the Day -- Request for Automatic Extension
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April 14, 2008
SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for April 14, 2008
Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Reports Contains colorful maps illustrating data from the 2000 United States Census. Some of the topics covered include Population distribution, race, age and sex, living arrangements, place of birth, migration, language, ancestry, education, work, military service, income and poverty, and housing. Several maps from earlier censuses so the reader can view changes.
The law library's print copy is on reference at G 1201 .E2 U5 2007.
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April 10, 2008
Prof. Fred Zacharias's bibliography
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Barry Scheck's bibliography
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Prof. Michael Reisman's bibliography
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April 08, 2008
A Guidebook for Ohio Legislators (Tenth Edition) Now Available
The Ohio Legislative Service Commission released a new version of its Guidebook for Ohio Legislators. While initially intended for use by members of the Ohio General Assembly, the Guidebook is a helpful resource for understanding the Ohio lawmaking process, the roles of the lawmakers and others involved. Chapters 5 & 6 may be of particular interest to law students. Other Ohio Legislative Service Commission publications are available at the Commission's Publications website.
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April 07, 2008
Dylan wins a Pulitzer
http://www.pulitzer.org/2008/Press%20Release%20-%202008%20Pulitzer%20Prizes.pdf
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SaraJean's Gov Doc of the Week for April 7, 2008
Several weeks ago, the Canadian Depository listserv was buzzing with discussion about the National Atlas of Canada reference map series's latest map, a wall map of Canada.
The Atlas of Canada's website has a variety of printable maps. Some of the topics covered include: Environment, People & Society, Economy, History, Climate Change, Freshwater, Health, Reference Maps, Map Archive, and Topographic Maps.
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