Reuters reports that advocacy groups have prevailed in their effort to force the government to release documents pertaining to the CIA investigation of prisoner abuse.
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Daily Archives: December 20, 2004
Website Provides Searchable Database and Free Downloads of Thousands of E-Books
Manybooks.net, Free eBooks for your PDA “This site contains more than 10,000 eBooks (see Project Gutenberg) formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, eBookWise-1150, or Symbian cellphone. When eBooks are added to the site they’re listed on the Recent Additions page.” [via Hot Links] Users may browse the site by Authors, Titles, Categories,… Continue Reading
OMB Report Recommends E-Gov’t Goals for 2005
Expanding E-Government, Partnering for a Results-Oriented Government “Our goal is to be the best manager, innovator and user of information, services and information systems in the world. There are great opportunities to apply existing and emerging business best practices to government to achieve increases in productivity and delivery of services and information. We will be… Continue Reading
Recommendations For Recently Launched Law-Related Websites
Robert J. Ambrogi highlights 13 websites, launched this past year, that merit your review, including an online legal bookstore, an e-discovery resource, a new meta-search engine, and a collection of historical documents on the civil rights movement. Continue Reading
FTC Requires Telemarketers to Purge Numbers Every 31 Days
From the FTC, Telemarketers Required to “Scrub” Their Call Lists Every 31 Days Beginning January 1, 2005. “Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commissions Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from their call lists every 31 days. The TSR currently requires… Continue Reading
Previews of Supreme Court Oral Argument From Cornell
Press release: “The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School is now offering free details on high-profile cases before they are argued and ruled on by the Supreme Court…the analyses of upcoming Supreme Court cases are put together by a team of Cornell Law School students…Brief summaries of key upcoming Supreme Court case… Continue Reading
