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This would never happen to a CM student or graduate, but take this snippet from The People's Court as a cautionary tale:

Thanks to The Law Librarian Blog for this find.

There is now an RSS feed linked from Scholar showing newly acquired materials in both the CSU Main Library and the C-M Law Library. If you are interested in new books and materials on a particular subject, you can create your own customized feed via Yahoo Pipes or Feedrinse. For example, see this custom feed I created with Yahoo Pipes that will look for materials with "(international and law or legal) or European Union" in the title. You can easily subscribe to the feed by clicking on "more options". I made a similar feed with Feedrinse. In my opinion,Yahoo Pipes is more flexible, but Feedrinse is easier to use.

If you want help setting up an RSS Reader or a custom feed, just contact the library staff.

Thanks to Jessica Matthewson for pointing out the catalog RSS feed.

From the halls of justice in Portland, Oregon...

Latasha Curry was in court recently for allegedly tossing her Starbucks coffee beverage at one of its managers. The manager testified that Curry pitched the coffee at him, and lobbed whipped cream at another employee. Curry testified that she and the manager grabbed the cup of coffee at the same time, and when she let go, the manager spilled the coffee on himself. The prosecutor cross-examined Ms. Curry, asking,"Is it or is it not true that you flung the iced venti mocha with extra hazelnut and caramel at the defendant (sic) out of anger?"

The dispute arose when Ms. Curry purchased a coffee beverage and later called the store to complain that the drink was bitter. The employee told her they would be happy to replace the beverage. Two days later she went to back to get her replacement beverage and was accused by the manager of running a scam. According to the manager, Curry directed racial and homophobic epithets at him, besides throwing the coffee.

The judge found Curry not guilty of misdemeanor harassment. See Oregon Revised Code 166.065. According to this Knight-Ridder Tribune article on the BusinessWeek website, the prosecutor's office was criticized for bringing the case to trial. The prosecutor said he brought the case in part because Curry had a prior conviction for theft, and she is currently charged with harassment in another case.

Do you think the prosecutor was right to pursue this case?

Thanks to Above the Law.

Ross Guberman penned an article in Legal Times, highlighting some helpful hints for drafting memos for summer associates.

courtesy of Moritz Legal Information Blog

Ohio Capitol Connection is now available remotely for Cleveland Marshall students, faculty and staff, for educational use only. Just use the link in this post, or a link from the library webpage, and you can get in from home using your CSU Id and PIN. Ohio Capitol Connection provides one-stop shopping for legislative history documents corresponding to bills and acts from 1989 forward.

What does Ohio Capitol Connection have that is not on the Ohio General Assembly's webpage or elsewhere on the Internet? Among other things ...

• Coverage back to 1989. The Ohio General Assembly's page goes back to 1997.
• Summaries of hearing testimony (When you pull up a bill, click on "Bill History").
• Hannah Report news articles corresponding to each bill.
• Executive Orders back to 1999.
• A fifty state search to find legislation pertaining to a particular topics in all or some of the fifty states.
• A search for bills and acts that actually changed a particular Ohio Revised Code section, not that merely mentioned the section in passing.

The American Society of International Law (ASIL) has recently added another excellent information product to their already long list of print and electronic publications. The Interest Group on International Organizations now publishes ASIL’s Reports on International Organizations, which are known as ASIL RIO.

The goal of ASIL RIO is to highlight the work of international organizations that are generally not well-known to international lawyers. While plenty of information sources cover the UN, EU or WTO, few discuss the work of INTERPOL, the AU, ASEAN, UNEP or the OSCE, to name a couple of the international organizations featured in the first issue of ASIL RIO.

ASIL RIO is browsable by international organization or by topical keywords such as economic growth, judicial reform, sanctions, corruption or democracy.

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