Press release: “The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries…The Sloan Foundation is proud to support the digitization of these high-value collections from five of the nation’s leading cultural institutions and to ensure that these materials will always be… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
New Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts Data Released
“Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts series, Presents data from the Census Bureau’s Annual Government Finance Survey and Annual Survey of Public Employment. This series includes national and State-by-State estimates of government expenditures and employment for the following justice categories: police protection, all judicial (including prosecution, courts, and public defense), and corrections. Federal data for the… Continue Reading
Public Interest Group Relases Report on State Lobbying
Press release: “State lobbyists and the companies that hire them spent a record of more than $1 billion in 2005 to influence state lawmakers and officials, the Center for Public Integrity has found. The almost 7,400 legislators in the 50 state capitals across the country passed close to 40,000 laws last year, according to figures… Continue Reading
Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country Website
Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country website from DOJ: “The goal of this resource is to provide a user-friendly, current, and comprehensive resource for American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal governments to further improve the safety of their communities…This Web-based resource guide has several sections, including educational materials to assist the reader with learning… Continue Reading
Sabrina Pacifici Profiled in Law Practice Magazine, December 2006
The December 2006 issue of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine features a profile of Sabrina I. Pacifici, founder, editor, publisher of LLRX.com and author of beSpacific. After a decade of publishing the free webzine on law and technology resources, and with more than four years and 11,000 postings on beSpacific.com, I am delighted to continue my… Continue Reading
Expanding E-Government Results Report from OMB
Expanding E-Government Results Report, December 2006 (12 pages, PDF): “During this last year, adoption, participation and customer satisfaction of 18 Presidential E-Government initiatives were tracked in order to provide a complete, timely and accurate assessment of the usage of and benefits delivered to the respective customers citizens, businesses, and government agencies alike.” [Report includes… Continue Reading
GAO Identifies Factors Hampering Development of New Drug Applications
New Drug Development: Science, Business, Regulatory, and Intellectual Property Issues Cited as Hampering Drug Development Efforts, Full text GAO-07-49, and Highlights, November 17, 2006. “Recent scientific advances have raised expectations that an increasing number of new and innovative drugs would soon be developed to more effectively prevent, treat, and cure serious illnesses. However, industry analysts… Continue Reading
U.S. and Panama Complete Trade Promotion Agreement Negotiations
Press release: “The United States and Panama today announced they have completed negotiations on a free trade agreement with the understanding that it is subject to further discussions regarding labor. This comprehensive trade agreement will eliminate tariffs and other barriers to trade of goods and services, expand trade between the United States and Panama, and… Continue Reading
The U.S.-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act
Remarks by President Bush at signing of bill – H.R. 5682 [To exempt from certain requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 a proposed nuclear agreement for cooperation with India] Fact Sheet: The United States – India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act Continue Reading
Topical Blogs Offer Last Minute Shopping Ideas
WSJ free feature: Blogs for Shoppers, From Fashion to Food, Sites, Track Deals and Offer Ideas For Stumped Gift Givers See also Kathy Biehl’s After Hours columns on LLRX.com, which include her 2006 Holiday Gift Guide Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com
The following articles are available in the December 2006 issue of LLRX.com: Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World – Updated, by Kathy Biehl Criminal Justice Resources – Criminal Justice Blogs, by Ken Strutin A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases, by Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman Deep Web Research Research 2007,… Continue Reading
FBI's Semiannual Uniform Crime Report , January – June 2006
FBI press release: “Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported an increase of 3.7 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention in the first half of 2006 when compared to figures reported for the first six months of 2005.” The data presented in Tables… Continue Reading
