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TechCrunch: “Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling. The landmark ruling by the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals is the latest in a long-running legal battle brought by LinkedIn aimed at stopping a rival company from web scraping personal information from …
Publishers Weekly: “Maryland’s library e-book law is effectively dead. In a court filing this week, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said the state would present no new evidence in a legal challenge filed by the Association of American Publishers, allowing the court’s recently issued preliminary injunction blocking the law to stand, and paving the …
Vox – The ICC may offer a path to hold Russia accountable, but it has plenty of limitations “… The bombing of a train station in Ukraine where many were gathered to evacuate. The murder of countless civilians in Bucha and other areas. As evidence of Russian atrocities against Ukraine builds, so do calls to …
CRS Legal Sidebar: A Code of Conduct for the Supreme Court? Legal Questions and Considerations Updated April 6, 2022: “The Code of Conduct for United States Judges (the Code) is a set of ethical canons that the Judicial Conference of the United States (Judicial Conference) has adopted to promote public confidence in the integrity, independence, …
The Atlantic – A covert network of activists is preparing for a post-Roe future. “…For many Americans, Roe already feels meaningless. Nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties lack a clinic that offers abortions. States have passed more than 1,300 restrictions on abortion since it was made a constitutional right; for people struggling to get by, …
Schmitz, Amy J. and Zeleznikow, John, Intelligent Legal Tech to Empower Self-Represented Litigants (March 2, 2022). Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 688, 23 COLUMBIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 142-190 (2022) at https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/stlr/article/view/9391/4800, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4048335 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4048335 “Legal technologies, or “legal tech,” are disrupting the practice of law and providing efficiencies …
Finkelstein, Claire and Painter, Richard W., Restoring the Rule of Law through Department of Justice Reform (February 16, 2022). In Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy (Norman Eisen ed., Brookings 2022), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4036891 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4036891 “As …
CRS Report – Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues for Congress, Updated March 9, 2022: “Cluster munitions are air-dropped or ground-launched weapons that release a number of smaller submunitions intended to kill enemy personnel or destroy vehicles. Cluster munitions were developed in World War II and are part of many nations’ weapons stockpiles. Cluster munitions have …
Publishers Weekly: “Connecticut has become the latest state to introduce a library e-book bill, introducing bill 131 in its February session. The Connecticut bill is similar to efforts in other states now underway, in that it would require publishers who offer an e-book to consumers in the state to also offer to license the works …
Slate: “The Supreme Court will not overturn a century of pro-democracy precedent and two centuries of historical practice to give state legislatures unlimited power over elections—yet. That’s the upshot of the court’s orders on Monday in two huge redistricting cases out of Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The court refused to block new congressional maps drawn …
Vox: “A pair of cases are currently pending before the Supreme Court that could fundamentally rewrite the rules of US elections. Both cases are redistricting cases. In Moore v. Harper, the North Carolina Supreme Court struck down gerrymandered congressional maps drawn by the state’s Republican legislature. In Toth v. Chapman, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court selected …
BuzzFeedNews: “Every person who appeared in court Monday as a prospective juror in the first Jan. 6 trial knew something about the Capitol attack, if only that it happened. But that wasn’t enough to get them sent home. Instead, the judge and the lawyers spent hours painstakingly parsing exactly what they knew, where they got …
