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Big Screen Kindle

Law Librarian Blog has in interesting post about the big screen Kindle.  Here's an excerpt:

Sometime ago I wrote, "while the Kindle buzz has stimulated interest in the legal academy, the development model will not follow along the lines of Kindle" because the digital text-study aid functionality law schools students want is not gizmo-dependent and products are or can be expected to integrate their computer-based apps with online research services. The AspenStudyDesk is leading the way and, in Professional Reading: Is Open-Source the Future of eBook Legal Publishing?, I predicted that  "Lexis and Thomson-West [will] join this market and dominate it eventually by allowing their eBooks to be customized and updated via their online research services. Hopefully, both will offer two options for their eBooks: (1) an word processing application that can be downloaded and (2) a web-based service that allows students to work collaboratively."

Read the whole post here.

Posted by Jon Lutz

Free and Fee Based Appellate Briefs

Michael Whiteman, Associate Dean for Law, Library Services & Information Technology, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, has posted "Free and Fee Based Appellate Court Briefs Online" at LLRX (Law Library Resource Exchange, LLC).

Posted by Mary McCormick

Citing Unpublished Opinions

The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved a new Appellate Rule 32.1 that will be effective December 1, 2005, unless Congress intervenes.  The new rule "permits the citation in briefs of opinions, orders, or other judicial dispositions that have been designated as 'not for publication,' 'non-precedential,' or the like and supersedes limitations imposed on such citation by by circuit rules."  The new rule is discussed in the September 2005 Summary of the Report of the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure (as are a variety of other rules that were approved by the Judicial Conference).

Posted by Mary McCormick