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Daily Archives: January 7, 2024

Supreme Court now allows public to sign up for email notifications of court filings

@lawrencehurley, Supreme Court Reporter for @NBCNews: “The Supreme Court’s docket system contains information about cases, both pending and decided, that have been filed at the Court. The docket provided here contains complete information regarding the status of cases filed since the beginning of the 2001 Term. Users can search for the docket in a particular case by using a Supreme Court docket number, a case name, or other words or numbers included on a docket report. The format for Supreme Court docket numbers is “Term year-number” (e.g., 21-471; 22-5301). Users can also sign up to receive email notifications of activity in pending cases. To do so, visit the docket page for an individual case and click on the envelope icon that is just above the case number. You will be asked to enter an email address. When you click “Subscribe,” an email will be sent to you with a link for you to confirm the correct email address. Once you click that link, you will receive email notifications every time there is a new filing or action by the Court in the case. Questions Presented. The Questions Presented in a granted or noted case can be obtained by first obtaining the docket report for that case, then clicking on the blue “Questions Presented” hyperlink located on the left side of the docket report. Once the hyperlink is clicked, a .pdf file setting forth the Questions Presented in the case will appear.”

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 6, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 6, 2024– Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and… Continue Reading

#MeToo & The Courts: The Impact of Social Movements on Federal Judicial Decisionmaking

T. Li, Carol and Martinez, Veronica Root and Hall, Matthew, #MeToo & The Courts: The Impact of Social Movements on Federal Judicial Decisionmaking (November 29, 2023). Washington and Lee Law Review, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-70, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4648666 – “In late 2017, the #MeToo movement swept… Continue Reading

Hortus Eystettensis

Open Culture – The Beautifully Illustrated Book of Plants That Changed Botanical Art Overnight (1613). “If you made it big in seventeenth-century Bavaria, you showed it by creating a garden with all the plants in the known world. That’s what Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt did, anyway, and he wasn’t about to let… Continue Reading

AI gadgets will be hot in 2024. You don’t need one.

Washington Post [read free]: “For the past decade, tech companies have chased a dream: Invent a gadget to replace the smartphone. That’s why companies have created computers for your face and wrist, talking speakers for your living room and virtual reality goggles. And while lots of people love Apple Watches, Alexa speakers or Meta Quest… Continue Reading

Burn After Wearing

Grist – A mountain of used clothes appeared in Chile’s desert. Then it went up in flames: “…Pino, director of Santiago’s Fashion System Observatory at Universidad Diego Portales, had planned this trip for months. Astudillo had volunteered to be their guide. The mound of discarded fabric in the middle of the Atacama weighed an estimated… Continue Reading