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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.

Challenges to Adam Walsh Sex Offender Law: Ohio and Elsewhere

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | June 10, 2008 - 13:47

Ohio amended its sexual offender registration laws to conform to the 2006 federal Adam Walsh Act. See 127th Gen Assembly, Senate Bill 10. and Senate Bill 97. The new law reclassified over 26,000 offenders, including juveniles, as sex offenders. See MacLean, Pamela A., Challenges Grow Over Sex Offender Laws, National Law Journal, June 9, 2008. The Ohio Adam Walsh Act is being challenged in a class action, Doe v. Dann, No. 1:2008cv00220 (N.D. Ohio). As reported on our Ohio Constitutional Law webpage, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Suster held that Ohio's Adam Walsh Act violates the retroactivity provisions of the Ohio and U.S. Constitutions. Evans v. State, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Case No. CV-08 646797. One day before Judge Suster's opinion, the Eighth District Court of Appeals decided that Ohio's Adam Walsh Act does NOT violate the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution. State v. Holloman-Cross (May 8, 2008), 2008-Ohio-2189.

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Polar Bears Are Still in Court

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | June 10, 2008 - 09:41

As posted earlier, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act following a three-year legal battle lead by conservationist groups. But the bears aren’t out of the courtroom yet – Alaska governor Sarah Palin has announced that the state of Alaska will file suit to challenge the threatened listing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, citing recent rebounds by polar populations in the state. Read about the move in the BNA Environment Reporter (subscription database) and in this earlier press release from Gov. Palin’s office.


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SSRN Downloads: The Latest Popularity Poll

Jan Novak, Associate Director jan.novak@law.csuohio.edu | June 10, 2008 - 09:16

An article in Monday’s New York Times looks at the phenomena of ranking download statistics on the Social Science Research Network: Now Professors Get Their Star Rankings, Too quotes Glenn Reynolds, Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Tennessee, upon finding that he came in fifth in total downloads over the last year, “If I could pick a certain 20 people to read my article, that would mean more to me than 20,000 others who read it.” And yet, he states, open access to academic literature should work to challenge authors to write in ways that are more “accessible” rather than “impenetrable.”

Cleveland-Marshall scholars post their papers in the SSRN Legal Scholarship Network Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series


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