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Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) 2005 Dataset: “The CPSC dataset includes information about potential injuries, deaths and investigations related to consumer products. Some of the products include children’s toys, bicycles, swimming pools, ATV’s (three- and four-wheelers), sports equipment, hobby items, lawn mowers, hair dryers, playground equipment and many more.” [The database is available to IRE …
Press release: “Today MAPLight.org unveiled a pioneering database that lays bare the connection between money and votes in California politics…The MAPLight.org website combines information from the Official California Legislative Information website, which contains the official text of each bill and how each legislator voted, and the Institute on Money in State Politics, a national nonpartisan, …
Stanford University Medical Center press release: “In a first-of-its-kind, telephone-based study, [Stanford University School of Medicine researchers] found that more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use. [See the October 2006 issue of CNS Spectrums: The International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine]
“Discovery’s Edge: Mayo Clinic’s online research magazine…reports on published research findings as well as the progress of ongoing research at all three Mayo Clinic campuses. Coverage spans the scope of basic and applied research, clinical trials, translational research, biotechnology and epidemiology. Primary focus areas include cardiac, cancer, neurological, endocrine and lung diseases, as well as …
Project on Gov’t Oversight releases report – U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory at High Risk, October 16, 2006 (36 pages, PDF)
New on LLRX.com for October 15, 2006 Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, Updated, by Sabrina I. Pacifici and Donna Cavallini Criminal Justice Resources: Juvenile Law and Family Court Resources, by Ken Strutin Deal or No Deal Licensing & Acquiring Digital Resources, by Kara Phillips The Tao of Law Librarianship: Flickr is the …
U.S. v. Lester Crawford, October 16, 2006: “Former FDA Chief Lester Crawford is charged with lying about, and failing to disclose, his ownership of Pepsico and Sysco stock, and stock options in Embrex Inc. while working at the federal agency, and with a conflict of interest for holding the stocks while being involved with a …
Levine, David S., “Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure”. Florida Law Review, Forthcoming. [via SSRN] “Trade secrecy – the intellectual property doctrine that allows businesses to keep commercially valuable information secret for a potentially unlimited amount of time – is increasingly intruding in the operation of our public infrastructure, like voting machines, …
Press release: “Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales submitted to President Bush today the Departments report regarding the government-wide administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Today’s report is the result of the first of three Justice Department reviews required under Executive Order 13392 titled, Improving Agency Disclosure of Information. The executive order, signed by …
Press release, October 16, 2006: North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Issues First Reliability Assessment Since Being Named the Electric Reliability Organization (ERO) – “The adequacy of North’s America’s electricity system will decline soon,” according to the CEO of NERC/ERO. Report – 2006 Long-Term Reliability Assessment: the Reliability of Bulk Power Systems in North America, …
Inspection Report, “Protective Force Property Management at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory”, October 2006 (20 pages, PDF)
Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for Fiscal Year 2006 (PDF, 42 pages), released October 16, 2006.