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At the November 9th-11th Region VI National Moot Court Competition in Columbus, the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law team won top honors. Team members Gregory Jolivette, Kelly Means, and Karen Swanson-Haan wrote the best respondent's brief and the best brief overall, and Karen Swanson-Haan was named Best Oralist. Most importantly, the team was judged the best in the region, defeating 18 other moot court teams from law schools in Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio, including Case Western Reserve University and Ohio State University. Click here for additional news on the Region VI Competition. For additional information on the National Competition, connect to the American College of Trial Lawyers National Moot Court Competition page.

Law Library Extended Hours
Law Library extended hours for exams will begin on Sunday, December 3rd.

Sunday, Dec. 3rd - Thursday, Dec. 21st	Reading & Exam Period
Monday - Thursday	8:00am - Midnight
Friday	8:00am - 10:00pm
Saturday	9:00am - 10:00pm
Sunday	12noon - Midnight
Thursday, December 21st	8:00am - 9:00pm

Exam Help
Need help preparing for exams? Visit the Law Library's Exam and Bar Exam Preparation Study Tools web page.

Study Rooms
There are nine group study rooms located throughout the Law Library. Group study rooms are designated for the use of two or more persons, and may be reserved for three continuous hours per day. You may continue to use the room unless another group has a reservation for the room. A study group may only reserve one room per day. Reservations may be made in person up to 72 hours in advance and 24 hours in advance by phone. Please call the Public Services Desk at 216-687-2250 to make a reservation. Your reservation for a group study room will be canceled if you are late 30 minutes or more for your scheduled time. The room will then be made available for use by others and can be reserved by someone else. A member of the Public Services staff must sign-off on your reservation. To reserve a study room, please stop by the Public Services desk and bring your Viking card.

Good luck on your exams.

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on November 20 that Cleveland’s predatory lending ordinances violated the home rule provisions of the Ohio Constitution because they impose stronger restrictions on lenders than those enacted by the Ohio General Assembly. Am. Financial Servs. Assn. v. Cleveland, __ Ohio St 3d __, 2006-Ohio-6043. Justice Terence O’Donnell wrote the majority opinion.

The November 17 Cleveland Plain Dealer carries Professor David Forte’s analysis on the passage of Issue 5 in the recent election: More Smoke Free Than You Thought: An Unreasonable Limit on Smoking ( Friday, November 17, 2006 at B9).

As found on Thursday, November 16, 2006 in the Calgary Sun the AP report read, "[t]he U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from prisoners and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined hundreds of men held at Guantanamo Bay were "enemy combatants," a new report said." Authored by attorneys representing Guantanamo detainees with the help of Seton Hall Law School students the 42 page pdf final report was released yesterday, Friday, November 17, 2006 on the Seton Hall Law web page.

A story about the 28 page pdf interim report was released by the Jurist Gazette on February 8, 2006.

The handy Ohio basic court rules sets now both come in 3 volumes: Federal, State, and Local, with an increased number of Common Pleas Courts’ rules.

Anderson’s Annotated Rules Governing the Courts of Ohio 2006-07 (LexisNexis) Reference & Reserve KFO 529 .A197 includes in Volume 2: Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Montgomery, Stark, and Summit County Common Pleas Courts Rules of Practice.

Ohio Rules of Court 2007 (Thomson West)
Reference & Reserve KFO 529 .A2
includes in the Local volume the following counties’ Common Pleas Court Rules: Allen, Butler, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Lake, Licking, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, Medina, Montgomery, Stark, Summit, Warren, and Wood.

The Washington University School of Law has created a Web-based Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse provides completed and pending case information and documents organized in several categories including Jail Conditions, Mental Health Institutions, Election and Voting, Child Welfare, Nursing Homes, Policing, Public Housing, and School Desegregation. Types of information include complaints, docket information, pleadings, decrees, orders, as well as reporter citations and links to LexisNexis/Westlaw resources. [One needs a subscription to connect to the LexisNexis/Westlaw resources.] The Clearinghouse was created for "noncommercial research, educational, and policy purposes," and its creators interested in hearing from researchers who find the "site useful for published work, teaching, advocacy, or policy design." One may use Clearinghouse materials for educational purposes, including classroom distribution, but one should notify the Clearinghouse of such use and reference the Clearinghouse as the source of the materials. Clearinghouse core faculty are Margo Schlanger, Professor of Law, and Denise Lieberman, Political Science Lecturer and Adjunct Professor Law. Several other faculty, as well as numerous College of Law and undergraduate students, also contribute to and manage the Clearinghouse.

A few years ago the issue of outsourcing legal research work caused quite a buzz when it was reported that Thomson (West) Publishing began a pilot project hiring lawyers in India to write headnotes for cases. Today LLRX.com published a new study tracking trends, Developments in Legal Outsourcing and Offshoring. The authors analyze the growth in offshore legal service companies, and conclude that while offshore legal research seems unlikely to flourish, substantive areas such as patent review, immigration, contract drafting and document review are increasingly amenable to offshore work. They predict that secretarial support, document processing and administrative work are potentially even stronger candidates for outsourcing.

The Ohio Supreme Court invites comments by December 6 on its proposed amendments to Rules for the Government of the Bar, Rule I, Admission to the Practice of Law. One major change would deem an application to take the bar examination as withdrawn if the candidate does not take the exam within four years of registering, or within two years of taking and failing it. Additionally, if an applicant passes the exam but is not admitted to practice within twelve months, the rule would require submission of a supplemental character questionnaire with the Bar Admissions Office. Further changes amend provisions for appealing the Admissions Committee recommendations.

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