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From the Congressional Budget Office: The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005 to 2014, January 2004 and a second report, Paying for Iraq’s Reconstruction, January 2004 [Link, requires readers to choose download format – pdf or WP] CBO Projects Record Deficit – Figure Could Reach $3.5 Trillion in the Next Decade if Tax Cuts …
Patent Assignments on the Web was scheduled to be deployed on January 26, 2004 and indeed, here it is.
FindLaw, owned by Thomson, announced today it has acquired Glasser LegalWorks.
From LexisNexis, Campaign 2004 News. Free access to content that includes headline news about the major candidates and their campaigns, as well as articles on platforms and issues.
Judge Audrey B. Collins, United States District Court for the Central District of California, ruled a section of the Patriot Act unconstitutional on January 25. >li>”The USA Patriot Act places no limitation on the type of expert advice and assistance which is prohibited and instead bans the provision of all expert advice and assistance regardless …
“Presidential Candidates: Amazon.com takes the friction out of grass roots contributions to presidential candidates. A 1-Click payment is the easiest way to make a contribution — from $5 to $200.” [Link via Declan McCullagh] See the FAQ here.
On January 23, I posted on how GOP Staffers Improperly Accessed Democratic Files. See this related commentary today, from ZDNet, Security breach on Capitol Hill: It’s criminal and from KnoxNews, Computer reportedly seized from Frist’s office.
Capturing tacit knowledge: Do you know more than you think? “An examination of the challenges involved in capturing tacit knowledge, by Bina Shah, Allen & Overy.” [via excited utterances] “Tacit knowledge is a mixture of deliberations, subjective insight, intuition and judgment that lawyers acquire by virtue of their experience and expertise.”
From the January 2004 issue of Law Practice Today: Electronic Document Retention Policies (And Why Your Clients Need Them).
From the Sunday, January 25 New York Times Magazine, The Tyranny of Copyright? reviews the impact of the Internet in the context of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act, the Copy Left movement, and the Creative Commons.
Finding People Resources and Sites on the Net: a pdf bibliography of free and fee-based sites.
H. RES. 499, introduced January 21, 2004 by Congressman Rush Holt (see his press release here). From the text of the resolutuon: “(1) the President is requested to transmit to the House of Representatives not later than the date that is 14 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution, all documents, including …