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From GPO, news about the release of the Congressional Pictorial Directory: 109th Congress “The 109th Congressional Pictorial Directory provides a color photograph of each member of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the 109th Congress. It also includes information about a Member of Congress’ length of service, political party affiliations, and Congressional district. …
From the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Canadian Legal Information Institute Advanced Search: users may restrict or extend the scope of their query to specific jurisdictions, legislation collection types, case law collection types (from within a total of 98 collections), in addition to using the advanced search template fields that restrict searches to specific …
“The European Court of Human Rights HUDOC Portal is a powerful, user-friendly information system which provides free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers. The judgments, decisions, resolutions and reports of these bodies are held in a database and …
From the Christian Science Monitor today, Experience needed? The long history of nonjudge justices. “Nearly half of justices had no prior experience on the bench.”
The GPO announced that its plan, the Future Digital System (FDsys), to digitize most government documents beginning with the Federal Papers, should be completed by summer 2007. See also the December 1, 2004 GPO report, A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century (23 pages, PDF)
From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU Underwood Law Library: Published Writings of Harriet E. Miers, Nominee for Justice of the U. …
State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web, Compiled by Jennifer Bryan, Documents Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library Bloomington [The E-LawLibrary Weblog]
A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, GAO-05-734SP, September 1, 2005, released October 5, 2005 (182 pages, PDF).
French open terror database “La Base de Données sur les actes terroristes (BDT) a été ouverte au public le 22 septembre 2005 avec, au départ, un accès via les sites Internet du Ministère de l’Intérieur et de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.” [Link]
Another project from Justia.com: “The Coalition seeks to bring together resources from all parts of the legal community (law school faculty, students, and practicing lawyers), as well as non-lawyers, to facilitate the fair distribution of federal, state, and private disaster relief to New Orleanians (wherever they may be) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We …
From Tim Stanley and his terrific team at Justia.com, this news: “we just put up a new free U.S. Supreme Court site and full decisions database (Volumes 1 – 545+) with oyez.org and uscourtforms.com. The url for the initial beta version is http://www.justia.us…we have links to real audio and canned searches into google, msn and …
Federal Register, October 3, 2005: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Notice of inquiry. “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is preparing to conduct proceedings in accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which was added by the Digital Millennium …
