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Supreme Court Wakes Up Government, Confirms Investigation by Trespass is Unlawful.

24 Jan

A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading


 

Supreme Court Wakes Up Government, Confirms Investigation by Trespass is Unlawful.

24 Jan

A Criminal Defense Attorney’s take and analysis on how the recent US Supreme Court Decision on 4th Amendment Search and Seizure law affects how Defense Attorneys will challenge illegal searches from now on. The decision provides confirmation that there are 2 separate legal theories for challenging an illegal search: 1) reasonable expectations of privacy and 2) common law trespass. Continue reading


 

Google Undocumented Search Operators Out of Date and Updated

07 Dec

In response to the Google undocumented operators post from Monday, Gary Price from INFODocket, as does Carol Ebbinghouse in a comment to that post notes that the Googleguide pages are not up to date. Gary reports that the pages haven’t…

 

Undocumented Search Operators In Google

05 Dec

Searching Google, or any search engine for that matter, almost always offers relevant results, though with a lot of noise hits thrown in just for the fun of it. I’ve always imagined how Google might benefit from using Boolean connectors…

 

The New Search Model: "Everyone plugs into the search engine, only a few understand how it works"

17 Nov

A definition of the algorithm: The algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions. And that is the problem today’s new legal search engines present for users and instructors of online legal research in the…

 

Browsing On A Sunday: Borders Books, The Health Care Law, And The Search Market

14 Nov

Bloomberg Business Week has a lengthy analysis on the failure of Borders Books called The End of Borders and the Future of Books. The pull quote is “Borders seems to have been in the business of making mistakes.” The article…

 

Creating Video Tutorials of Today’s Online Search Services: The example of Fastcase endorsing best practice videos authored by law librarians

07 Nov

Got to hand it to Fastcase for calling attention to video tutorials created by law librarians: We recently came across a series of well-crafted Fastcase Video Tutorials created by our partners at the Jenkins Law Library. We were impressed with…

 

SF Public Defender’s You Tube Channel Highlights Police Misconduct, Rights

02 Nov

Public Defender videos show illegal police searches, false police reports, and great information on a defendant’s rights. Continue reading


 

Too Big To Fail: Is Thomson Reuters’ balance sheet so weak to be verging on bankruptcy?

25 Oct

In 12 Companies that Could Go Bankrupt Very Soon (Street Authority, Oct. 13, 2011) David Sterman lists TRI as one of 12 at-risk stocks that “could tumble in a hurry.” Sterman writes: I went in search of companies that may…