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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Web Resource for Standard of Review on Appeal

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | April 24, 2008 - 19:55

Working on an appellate brief ? Be sure to consider the standard of review, and how it can work in your side's favor. Read why the standard of review is so important, and how it can help your client in "A Thought on Standard of Review" by the Drug and Device Law Blog.

This post sites to a handy Standards of Review Outline, written by the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Even if you are working on a case for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, or a state court of appeals, the outline is still useful. Just look up the Ninth Circuit cases cited in the outline on Lexis or Westlaw, and find the corresponding Westlaw Key Number or Lexis Headnote. If you are not sure how to do this, just ask a research librarian for help.

The library staff can also point you to other helpful resources, such as the handy tables in LexisNexis® 19-206 Moore's Federal Practice - Civil § 206.08 , (also available in print) or LexisNexis® 1-6 Appellate Practice and Procedure in Ohio § 6.02, Section 8 (also available in print). or OH. App. Prac. Appendix G (2007-2008 ed.) (also available in print).

Thanks to the Legal Writing Professor Blog for pointing out the Drug and Device Law Blog post.


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C-M Law Faculty Scholarship in the Works

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | April 24, 2008 - 08:58

What is the C-M Law faculty writing about these days? A lot.

Try labor law, international law, capital punishment, bioethics, or antitrust immunity. Or predatory lending, cybermedicine and data protection, citizenship and immigration, or genetics and sexual orientation. Or race and freedom of expression, Black rights in Canada, or integration in the schools.

The Faculty Publications database provides full-text links to Lexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline, SSRN, and free online sources for faculty scholarship. Search features allow you to pull up forthcoming works or works in progress, or to search by author, subject or publication type. New articles, books and other works are always being added to the database, so it’s an up-to-date resource for C-M Law faculty writing.


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Help Evaluate Federal Legislative History Databases.

Kevin Garewal | April 24, 2008 - 08:02

Have you ever had to trace the legislative history of a federal law? Ever wonder if there was an easier way to do it? Well, there is a resource called the U.S. Serial Set that has been digitized by Lexis and Readex to help with the researching process. The Lexis Serial Set covers 1789-1969, while Readex covers 1819-1940 (they are currently updating their materials to the year 1980.) The Serial Set contains Committee Reports, House and Senate Documents and Journals and other publications.

The Lexis advanced search option allows you to search a number of resources at once including: Committee Prints (1830-current), CRS Reports (1916-2003), Hearings (1824- current), House and Senate Documents (1970-2003) & Committee Reports (1819-current), Legislative Histories (1969-current), Serial Set, and Serial Set Maps. Lexis markets each of these components individually for purchase.

The Readex databases includes: America’s Historical Newspapers, American State Papers 1789-1838, House and Senate Journals 1789-1817, Senate Executive Journals 1789-1866, US Serial Set, Serial Set Maps.

If you are interested in trying these materials just click on the links below. (However, there is no remote or wireless access for these materials at this time.)

The Law Library is currently evaluating both resources. If you have any comments or questions please feel free to contact me at kevin.garewal@law.csuohio.edu. If you would like to take a short survey, which would help us evaluate the sources please click here.

Readex Serial Set


Lexis Serial Set (click on advanced search at the top and select the search options you would like to try.)




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