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Press release: “The American Judicature Society’s National Jury Center has launched a Web site on the jury. The site is designed for use by potential jurors and court administrators, as well as the media, lawyers, judges, researchers, and interested members of the public.” The site includes six topical portals: Choosing Who Serves, Jury Improvement Efforts, …
From Steven Aftergood and the Federation of American Scientists, the following links: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions, updated September 22, 2004 (90 pages, PDF) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: Selected Legislation from the 108th Congress, updated September 30, 2004
From Reuters: “German science publisher Springer Science + Business Media will start in January to put all back issues of its 1,250 scientific journals on the Internet, some of which date back to 1886, it said on Wednesday.” [Link]
Reconstructing Electronic Surveillance Law, by Daniel J. Solove. “The USA-Patriot Act made a number of changes in electronic surveillance law, but the most fundamental problems with the law did not begin with the USA-Patriot Act. In this article, Professor Solove argues that electronic surveillance law suffers from significant problems that predate the USA-Patriot Act. The …
From FindLaw: “Memorandum of Understanding (September 20, 2004). Thirty-Two Page Agreement Between Bush And Kerry Campaigns Covering Every Aspect Of The Three Presidential Debates And One Vice-Presidential Debate” [HTML]
From Thomas R. Bruce, Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: We’ve finally unveiled the new version of the US Code…It represents a real improvement over the last version, in that the formatting is far more accurate, we are able to link many more crossreferences than previously, the search engine is greatly improved, and the …
A Starting Point: Legal Implications of Internet Filtering (PDF 16 pages) “In this paper, the Open Net Initiative (ONI) considers some of the legal implications of controlling access to Internet content through filtering. ONI — a research partnership of the Berkman Center, University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, and the University of Cambridge — documents Internet …
From Orin Kerr, news of the publication of a draft of his new essay, Digital Evidence and the New Criminal Procedure. “This essay shows how existing rules of criminal procedure are poorly equipped to regulate the collection of digital evidence. It predicts that new rules of criminal procedure will evolve to regulate digital evidence investigations, …
Metaforix@Health – Free Online Resources for Public Library Users: Florida and Illinois Please note, the correct URL for the new guide, Looking For International Law? EISIL It! is http://www.llrx.com/features/eisil.htm Please see LLRX.com to review the complete Table of Contents for the September 20, 2004 issue. Enjoy, and many thanks to all the terrific authors.
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