Senator Al Franken received letters from Carrier IQ, AT&T, Sprint, Samsung, and HTC detailing their use of Carrier IQ software as he had requested. They are available in full from Senator Franken’s Senate web page and summarized in a Bloomberg…
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Let’s Start with Basic Skills: Teaching Law Students Reading and Reasoning Skills
09
Dec
Obviously there has been much more change-talk than action in improving the legal academy curriculum. Perhaps that is because the legal academy is a bit befuddled about where to start. Even if we accept the premise that law schools try…
A Bit More On e-Books And Libraries
09
Dec
An article in The Atlantic called Library Wars: Amazon and Publishers Vie for Control of E-Book Rentals by Peter Osnos that examines the publishing world’s paranoia with e-books. They love the idea of selling them at prices comparable to print…
Penn State Law Application Fee Waivers Draw Reaction
18
Nov
The Daily Beast is reporting on the reaction of some prospective law students to the Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law offer to waive the application fee. The reported comments are a bit harsh, suggesting there is some connection to…
A Bit More On The Rudovsky Case
23
Sep
I wrote a post a while back called The Rudovsky Case and Quality Control. The thrust of the case is that West Publishing (the defendant) libeled two authors, David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov, by updating their treatise called Pennsylvania Criminal…
Time to Use RECAP Instead of PACER?
16
Sep
As a quick follow-up to Mark Giangrande’s earlier post about PACER’s fee increase, it seems worth noting that under the new fee structure infrequent PACER users get a bit of a break as long as they do not download 150…
Some Academic Libraries Jointly Negotiate Electronic Access Deals
19
Jul
I have only a little bit to add to the antitrust discussion, and that is merely referencing an article published on July 17th in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Premium Content, subscription required). It’s called Libraries Abandon Expensive ‘Big Deal’…
Are Law School Applications Dropping?
05
Jul
I’ll add just a little bit to Joe’s post, Paradigm Shift Ignored: On Reasons Why Law Schools Admit So Many Students When Their Employment Prospects are So Dismal. Law School applicants may be finally getting it, at least in some…
Dr. Laura reinventing herself again?
18
Aug
I wrote about Dr. Laura Schlessinger awhile back, comparing her to Dr. Toni Grant. So did Betty Bowers, which is also worth recalling. If you want to know who Betty Bowers is, she’s explained here. Meanwhile, we will wait with baited breath for the umpteenth coming of Dr. Laura, but in what shape? She claims she will be giving up her radio show. Back to books, or TV reality appearances? A game show? A Judge on America’s Got Talent? (I can think of others who have done this.) Perhaps she will go back to this, although I think it’s got a bit past her.
Her callers will have to find some other problem-seeker offering personalized answers. Someone with a little sensitivity, someone who will know whether it is ok to flaunt the "N" word. I do feel a tiny bit sorry for her, truth to tell. For her life as of now will be taken over by others not of her choosing, and I know how that feels.
More HathiTrust Lawsuit News
Here’s a bit more on the Authors Guild suit against the HathiTrust. There is short commentary by Irvin Muchnick criticizing the Guild’s action published in BeyondChron, an alternative paper in the San Francisco area. Muchnick, noted for his championship of…
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