tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65788609878851623332024-03-05T00:49:44.335-08:00Western State Law Library BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-53699387243059829272016-11-03T13:52:00.001-07:002016-11-03T13:53:13.999-07:00First Live Stream by the U.S. Supreme CourtOn Friday November 4, at 10:30 am Pacific time, <a href="http://www.lawsitesblog.com/2016/11/supreme-court-stream-first-ever-webcast-tomorrow.html">the U.S. Supreme Court will live-stream its bar meeting to honor the late Justice Antonin Scalia</a>. This is the first-ever live video webcast by the Supreme Court. The webcast will be shown on the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/">Court's website</a>.<br />
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Incidentally, the U.S. Supreme Court does provide <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_audio.aspx">audio (but not video) recordings of oral arguments</a> shortly after the end of arguments. The U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit has some <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live_oral_arguments.php">live oral arguments</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/">audio and video of past arguments on its own website</a> along with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/9thcirc/videos">videos on YouTube</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-54584048978316443752016-05-11T14:31:00.000-07:002016-05-11T14:31:08.670-07:00Federal Legislative Research: Thomas and Congress.govIf you've searched for legislative history of recent federal bills or law, you've probably used <a href="http://thomas.gov/">Thomas.gov</a>. Well, get ready to change your bookmarks. As noted by <a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/2016/05/congress-gov.html">Legal Writing Prof blog</a>, Thomas retires on July 5. Many Thomas.gov links already redirect to the replacement website, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/">Congress.gov</a>.<br />
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For detailed information about the replacement of Thomas by Congress.gov, see the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/help/faq#thomasretirement">Thomas retirement FAQ</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-81015657195037018572016-05-11T14:17:00.001-07:002016-05-11T14:17:53.755-07:00Summer and Graduate Access to Legal Research Databases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you have any questions, please contact <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">Western State library staff</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-8123550855704843332015-04-14T17:28:00.004-07:002015-04-14T17:28:54.546-07:00New: ABA Periodicals on HeinOnlineWestern State College of Law now subscribes to the <a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=aba&set_as_cursor=clear">ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals</a> on HeinOnline. (Students, faculty, and staff can access the <a href="http://0-heinonline.org.westl.iii.com/HOL/Index?collection=aba&set_as_cursor=clear">ABA periodicals off-campus</a> as well as on-campus.) This is a complete archive of more than 100 ABA periodicals, including the ABA Journal, Student Lawyer, and GPSolo. Many of the periodicals were previously only available to members.<br />
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If you have any questions about using this database or HeinOnline in general, please ask a member of the <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">Western State library staff</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-12800182100228920432015-04-10T17:07:00.000-07:002015-04-10T17:07:13.961-07:00National Library Week 2015During <a href="http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek">National Library Week</a> (April 12-18, 2015), the Western State College of Law Library is giving out five prizes. By submitting a correct answer to the daily legal research question Monday through Thursday, you'll be entered into a daily raffle for a $10 gift card (e.g., for Starbucks or Panera). All correct answers will also be entered into a raffle on Friday for a $100+ Visa gift card! Questions will be available and answers may be submitted at the raffle box at Reference Desk.<br />
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The Library will also be providing refreshments during the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday.<br />
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Please talk to a <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">library staff</a> member if you have any questions about National Library Week.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-10497671431045011352015-04-01T09:46:00.000-07:002015-04-01T09:46:27.337-07:00Legal April Fools' Day!Today is <b>not</b> April Fools' Day. Oh wait, it is April Fools' Day. Did we trick you? ;)<div>
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<a href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legal_skills/2015/04/the-most-important-law-review-article-of-our-time.html">The Most Important Law Review Article of Our Time</a></div>
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<a href="http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/humor/april-fools-three-great-law-themed-pranks-from-the-past/">April Fools! Three Great Law-Themed Pranks from the Past</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-715900464399787292015-03-10T17:28:00.002-07:002015-03-10T17:28:58.005-07:00Free CEB programs for law studentsContinuing Education of the Bar (CEB) offers <a href="http://ceb.com/promotions/lsfree.asp">free programs for law students</a> in California. You can find both live and on-demand programs to improve your legal skills and your marketability for legal jobs. Please visit the CEB website for information on <a href="http://ceb.com/promotions/lsfree.asp">how to register for these programs</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-16140174113181481382015-02-25T13:51:00.000-08:002015-02-25T16:59:49.803-08:00The Supreme Court and Dr. SeussWriting in dissent in <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-7451_m64o.pdf"><i>Yates v. U.S.</i></a> -- a case involving application of the phrase "tangible object" to a fish -- Justice Elena Kagan said, "A fish is, of course, a discrete thing that possesses physical form. See generally Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)."<br />
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As Prof. Eugene Volokh notes, this is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/02/25/dr-seuss-comes-to-the-u-s-supreme-court/">the first citation of Dr. Seuss in a Supreme Court opinion</a>. However, a little searching on Lexis Advance, WestlawNext, HeinOnline, or the like reveals that <a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/nyls58&id=494">Dr. Seuss</a> and "<a href="http://heinonline.org/HOL/CaseLaw?native_id=5078031">One Fish ...</a>" have popped up in various other cases and legal materials.<br />
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Incidentally, in announcing the <i>Yates</i> plurality opinion from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also exercised some poetic license: "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/justices-overturn-a-fishermans-conviction-for-tossing-undersize-catch.html">Fish one may fry ... but may one falsify, or make a false entry in the sea dwelling creatures?</a>"<br />
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If you're researching the relation between Dr. Seuss, "One Fish...," poetry, or anything else to the law, please feel free to consult <strike>The Cat in the Hat</strike> <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">the Western State law librarians</a>. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-64046840904254816882015-02-25T13:08:00.000-08:002015-02-25T13:51:38.764-08:00Two new databases: Loislaw and CheckpointThe Western State law library has recently added LoislawConnect and Thomson Reuters Checkpoint to the list of legal research <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/databases.html">databases</a>. Loislaw includes primary law (cases, statutes, etc.) and several collections of treatises (e.g., bankruptcy, employment law, and trial practice). Checkpoint (a/k/a RIA Checkpoint) has both primary and secondary materials on tax law. These databases are available to Western State students, faculty, and staff, as well as visitors to campus. If you would like information on using Loislaw, Checkpoint, or our other databases, please contact one of the <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">Western State librarians</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-24400893961653884982015-02-24T14:08:00.000-08:002015-02-24T14:09:37.007-08:00Twitter chat on balance during law school (Tues. 2/24)<a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/start">Bloomberg Law</a> has announced that on Tuesday, February 24, 2015, from 3 - 5 pm PST, "an expert panel will help answer your questions so you can successfully balance the demands of law school." You can post a question on <a href="https://twitter.com/">Twitter</a> with the hashtag #Balanced1L to request advice from this panel.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-28200216388971499652015-02-13T13:53:00.000-08:002015-02-25T13:09:17.683-08:00Library is open on Presidents' DayThe Western State College of Law library will be open for its normal hours (8 am - 11 pm) on Monday, February 16, 2015. However, reference librarians will not be available.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-60062315855082907722015-02-05T13:44:00.002-08:002015-02-05T13:44:33.943-08:00Have you visited the Western State faculty blog?<a href="https://westernstatefacultyblog.wordpress.com/">The Western State College of Law Faculty Blog</a> provides news and updates from the Western State faculty. For example, today's entry mentions that Prof. Robert Molko's article “The Drones are Coming! Will the Fourth Amendment Stop Their Threat to Our Privacy?,” 78 Brook. L. Rev. 1279 (2013), was cited by the New Mexico Attorney General in a brief to the New Mexico Supreme Court. Another recent post noted that three Western State adjunct professors were named Southern California Super Lawyers.<br />
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We hope you will bookmark and visit the faculty blog, as well as the library blog!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-83158115910148160242015-01-05T11:43:00.000-08:002015-01-05T11:43:00.796-08:00Library hours for Spring 2015We have posted the <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/info2.html">library hours</a> for the Spring 2015 semester. During January, the library will have one exception to the normal library and reference hours -- we will be closed on Martin Luther King, Jr., Day on Monday, January 19.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-76933886919193106622015-01-05T11:40:00.003-08:002015-01-05T11:40:29.781-08:00Welcome!Happy New Year and welcome to new and returning students, BarBri studiers, and everyone using library services during the Spring 2015 semester. If you have any questions about the Western State College of Law library, please feel free to contact the <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">library staff</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-32006708798114836642014-11-23T16:31:00.000-08:002014-11-23T16:31:46.888-08:00Library hours through 1/4/15The Western State College of Law library will be closed:<br />
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The library will be open until 2 AM from the evening of Mon. 12/1 through the evening of Wed. 12/17.<br />
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The library will be open until 6 PM (except on days when it's closed entirely) from Thurs. 12/18 through Sun. 1/4.<br />
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For a complete schedule, please see the <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/info2.html">Western State library website</a>.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-24105494127760987642014-11-13T12:01:00.003-08:002014-11-13T12:01:23.163-08:00Resources for exam studyAs you know, final exams are coming up in December. The Western State library is scheduled to stay <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/info2.html">open until 2 am during reading period and finals</a>, to accommodate those who prefer to study during the late night.<br />
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The library reserve desk has binders of past exams in many courses. (Disclaimer: Not all exams in all courses are available.) You can ask a librarian or other library employee for past exams, and take the exams you want briefly out of the binder to make a copy.<br />
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Also, Western State students have access to <a href="http://www.cali.org/">CALI</a>, which includes materials that you might find useful in preparing for exams (especially if your professors have assigned or recommended them). If you need access to or have questions about CALI, please contact <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">Scott Frey or another Western State librarian</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-28399144672797184032014-10-30T12:06:00.000-07:002014-10-30T12:06:31.881-07:00U.S. Supreme Court researchThe <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/">U.S. Supreme Court</a> has improved its website during the last couple of years, so that it's easy to find recent opinions, orders, and other information from the Court. For oral arguments and additional information about Supreme Court cases, you can look to the <a href="http://www.oyez.org/">Oyez Project</a> from IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. For news and analysis of Supreme Court actions, you might try <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/">SCOTUSblog</a>, Bloomberg BNAs' <a href="https://www.bloomberglaw.com/law_reports/BNALW">U.S. Law Week</a> or <a href="http://uslw.bna.com/lwrc/#/sctd">Supreme Court Today</a>, or reports by NPR's <a href="http://www.npr.org/people/2101289/nina-totenberg/archive">Nina Totenberg</a> and the New York Times' <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/linda_greenhouse/index.html">Linda Greenhouse</a>.<br />
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If you're interested in additional research into Supreme Court cases, please feel free to <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">contact a Western State librarian</a>.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-27246918035192036562014-10-30T11:03:00.002-07:002014-10-30T11:03:16.354-07:00Legal research on your phone or tabletSo let's say you've got a smart phone or tablet. You can use it to check your email, send texts, take photos, etc. But can you do legal research on it? (A Socratic question.) Of course! We've collected links about <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/mobile.html">legal apps and mobile websites</a> for both iOS and Android. If you have questions about legal research on your device (or on a computer or in books!), please feel free to <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">talk with a librarian</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-75075314184676577302014-09-10T17:16:00.003-07:002014-09-10T17:16:48.626-07:00The new Lexis Advance has arrivedIf you haven't logged onto Lexis Advance recently, you'll now see a completely redesigned interface. Lexis has an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0LXt6sgGo">introductory video</a> as well as guides to <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/pdf/20140618101754_large.pdf">navigating</a> and <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/documents/pdf/20140306094547_large.pdf">using</a> the new interface. The <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">Western State law librarians</a> will be happy to help with any of your questions about the new version of Lexis Advance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-43424341269527022432014-09-10T17:08:00.000-07:002014-09-10T17:08:30.952-07:00Coming soon: Checkpoint, a tax research databaseThe Western State law library will soon provide on- and off-campus access to <a href="https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/products/brands/checkpoint">Checkpoint</a>, a database for tax research used by many tax lawyers and CPAs. If you have questions about Checkpoint, please feel free to <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">contact a librarian</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-55562146510485281062014-07-21T16:34:00.000-07:002014-07-21T16:34:47.231-07:00A new Lexis Advance interface is coming soonSome time this summer, Lexis Advance will have a new interface and many enhanced features. For information about these changes, please see:<br />
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If you haven't used Lexis Advance recently, you might want to try it again when the new interface arrives. Please feel free to <a href="http://westl.iii.com/screens/staff.html">contact a librarian</a> if you have questions or comments.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-43357423796195019842014-06-25T10:38:00.000-07:002014-06-25T10:45:23.584-07:00From Westlaw Classic to WestlawNextAs noted in a <a href="http://wsulawlibrary.blogspot.com/2014/05/westlaw-classic-no-longer-available-as.html">previous post</a>, Westlaw Classic will no longer be available to law school users as of July 1. If you currently use Westlaw Classic and want to learn how to use WestlawNext, you might look at Westlaw's <a href="http://lawschool.westlaw.com/marketing/display/WT/39">online training materials</a>. The training includes topics such as finding statutes, searching with terms and connectors, and creating folders to which you can save search results. If you want to download or email your search history from Westlaw Classic, there's a <a href="http://lscontent.westlaw.com/images/content/Downloading%20or%20Emailing%20History%20output/story.html">training module</a> for that too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-940211496552378512014-06-24T09:41:00.000-07:002014-07-08T09:54:50.885-07:00Western State's Faculty BlogThe faculty at Western State College of Law have a new <a href="http://westernstatefacultyblog.wordpress.com/">blog</a>, which highlights recent faculty achievements and accomplishments. The current blog <a href="http://westernstatefacultyblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/faculty-news-december-2013-may-2014/">post</a> notes publications, presentations, and leadership roles for several professors. Look forward to more updates soon about the good work of the Western State faculty!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578860987885162333.post-33184368546328743102014-06-20T16:02:00.000-07:002014-07-08T09:55:11.798-07:00Library closed on 4th of JulyThe Western State College of Law Library will be closed on Independence Day, Friday, July 4, 2014. The library will be open for its normal hours of 8 am to 11 pm all other days this week, including the weekend.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com