Law Library Notes http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:16:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Will Bureaucracy Keep The U.S. Drone Industry Grounded? http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/30/will-bureaucracy-keep-the-u-s-drone-industry-grounded/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/30/will-bureaucracy-keep-the-u-s-drone-industry-grounded/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:16:06 +0000 Troy Johnson http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=626 Tough federal aviation rules and public backlash against drones have raised worries that the U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle industry will be left behind foreign competitors. Developers say the U.S. light drone industry is being overtaken by manufacturers in Israel and Australia.

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]]> http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/26/federal-websites-for-and-about-american-indians/feed/ 0 United States v. Beer http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/19/united-states-v-beer/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/19/united-states-v-beer/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:14:04 +0000 George Butterfield http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=620 What an unfortunate case name!

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]]> http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/04/16/google-vs-bing-search-engines-deliver-infected-websites-as-their-top-results/feed/ 0 The Ranking Season: What Every Law School is Singing http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/13/the-ranking-season-what-every-law-school-is-singing/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/13/the-ranking-season-what-every-law-school-is-singing/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:22:17 +0000 George Butterfield http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=603 Don’t Bring Me Down

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]]> http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/12/law-school-rankings-2/feed/ 0 The Court of Public Opinion Is About Mob Justice and Reputation as Revenge http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/03/the-court-of-public-opinion-is-about-mob-justice-and-reputation-as-revenge/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/03/the-court-of-public-opinion-is-about-mob-justice-and-reputation-as-revenge/#comments Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:49:54 +0000 Troy Johnson http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=596 Interesting article at Wired.com about how the general public and social media work together to create a vigilante system of justice. The article puts it this way – Instead of a sideshow to actual legal proceedings, the court of public opinion is turning into an alternative system of dispute resolution and justice.

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]]> http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/03/03/the-court-of-public-opinion-is-about-mob-justice-and-reputation-as-revenge/feed/ 0 What Not To Do When Submitting A Legal Memorandum To A Court http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/02/26/what-not-to-do-when-submitting-a-legal-memorandum-to-a-court/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/02/26/what-not-to-do-when-submitting-a-legal-memorandum-to-a-court/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:39:35 +0000 George Butterfield http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=593 Here’s a piece of legal research  and writing advice for law students an attorneys alike:  Don’t copy stuff willy-nilly and submit it to the Court as part of a memorandum of law.  Oh, and Shepardize (or KeyCite, or whatever Bloomberg uses as a verb for their citator) your cases.  The ABA Journal reports on a case where Lindsey Lohan sued a rapper for using her name in a song.  She claimed it violated her rights of publicity.  The trial court found that using a name in an artwork was protected speech under the First Amendment.  The defendants, however, asked for sanctions because significant portions of the memorandum in opposition was taken from another brief in an unrelated case (and not really on point) along with uncited portions of web content and articles.

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]]> http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/02/26/what-not-to-do-when-submitting-a-legal-memorandum-to-a-court/feed/ 0 How to Locate Free Case Law on the Internet http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/02/25/how-to-locate-free-case-law-on-the-internet/ http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/2013/02/25/how-to-locate-free-case-law-on-the-internet/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:41:09 +0000 George Butterfield http://blogs.creighton.edu/lawlibrarynotes/?p=591 Read the Library of Congress article by Robert Brammer here.

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