- Forest Grove School dist v. T.A. (Special education)557 U.S. ___ (2009), 129 S.Ct. 2484
- Safford Unified School District v. Redding (Search & Seizure) 557 U.S. ___ (2009), 129 S.Ct. 2633
- Morse v. Frederick (Freedom of Speech) 551 U.S. 393
Friday, January 15, 2010
Select cases to practice
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Russell v. Devon case found! (Or, You're Welcome, part II)
We discovered the opinion for Russell v. Men dwelling in Devon (1788, 2 TR 667) in John Henry Wigmore's Select cases on the Law of Torts (Northwestern, 1912). see pp. 837-839. Thanks, Google Book project!
Monday, September 21, 2009
You're welcome
NewYork (State). Task Force on School Violence. Safer Schools in the 21st century. Report from 1999. Lovingly preserved through a NYS Library digitization initiative.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Find Paper decisons in the Nassau Area
We used some library catalogs to locate if the older, paper versions of the Commissioner's Decisions AKA the Judicial Decisions of the Commissioner of Education AKA the Education Department Reports were available in the Nassau County Area.
We found them at (Be sure to call or email them before you visit!!!)
We found them at (Be sure to call or email them before you visit!!!)
- Hempstead Public Library
- Suffolk Community College (yes, we know what county it's in)
- Nassau County Court Library [maybe; we're not sure] in Mineola
- Adelphi University Library
- Dowling College Library
- CW Post Library
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
National Library Week presentation
If you plan to be in the Hudson Valley on the 15th, please consider attending our thought-provoking panel on school libraries. Or invite a library school student!
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You're invited to attend a SUNY New Paltz program celebrating National Library Week 2009:
"Teachers and School Librarians: Partnerships that Work"
School librarians are an extraordinary educational resource. Every day, they introduce students to libraries as important information resources, teach essential information seeking and evaluative skills, and prepare students for higher levels of research. When teachers and librarians work together, they ensure that learning doesn’t end when students leave the classroom.
How do teachers and librarians form working collaborations? What are the benefits and what are the obstacles? As an educator, how can you make these collaborations work? Join us as we welcome four educators from nearby schools who have created exceptional and thought-provoking partnerships.
Dale Thompson, an eighth grade English teacher and Joan Alley, school librarian are from Bailey Middle School in Kingston. Thompson and Alley have collaborated on an innovative Civil War learning unit with their classes. Alley has presented workshops on Big 6, an information and computer literacy program designed for children and teens.
Charlotte Adamis and Victoria Brooks are from Chambers Elementary School. Prior to becoming a librarian, Adamis worked in the arts and in journalism. Brooks is a New Paltz graduate with twenty-two years experience teaching first and second grade. Together, they will discuss how they collaborate on science lessons.
This program will take place on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4:30pm at SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 102.
This event is free and open to the public.
For details please contact Stephan J. Macaluso at (845) 257-2699, macaluss@newpaltz.edu, or Amanda Merritt at (845) 257- 2335, merritta@newpaltz.edu.
This program is sponsored by Sojourner Truth Library, the SUNY New Paltz School of Education and the SUNY New Paltz Career Resource Center.
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You're invited to attend a SUNY New Paltz program celebrating National Library Week 2009:
"Teachers and School Librarians: Partnerships that Work"
School librarians are an extraordinary educational resource. Every day, they introduce students to libraries as important information resources, teach essential information seeking and evaluative skills, and prepare students for higher levels of research. When teachers and librarians work together, they ensure that learning doesn’t end when students leave the classroom.
How do teachers and librarians form working collaborations? What are the benefits and what are the obstacles? As an educator, how can you make these collaborations work? Join us as we welcome four educators from nearby schools who have created exceptional and thought-provoking partnerships.
Dale Thompson, an eighth grade English teacher and Joan Alley, school librarian are from Bailey Middle School in Kingston. Thompson and Alley have collaborated on an innovative Civil War learning unit with their classes. Alley has presented workshops on Big 6, an information and computer literacy program designed for children and teens.
Charlotte Adamis and Victoria Brooks are from Chambers Elementary School. Prior to becoming a librarian, Adamis worked in the arts and in journalism. Brooks is a New Paltz graduate with twenty-two years experience teaching first and second grade. Together, they will discuss how they collaborate on science lessons.
This program will take place on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4:30pm at SUNY New Paltz, Lecture Center 102.
This event is free and open to the public.
For details please contact Stephan J. Macaluso at (845) 257-2699, macaluss@newpaltz.edu, or Amanda Merritt at (845) 257- 2335, merritta@newpaltz.edu.
This program is sponsored by Sojourner Truth Library, the SUNY New Paltz School of Education and the SUNY New Paltz Career Resource Center.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Shepardizing....
...is available in case decisions in Lexis Nexis Academic. Find prior and subsequent history as well as how the decision was treated in cases and in secondary sources like reviews and law textbooks.
When I shepardize a case, I usually do so by clicking the "Next Steps" feature on the case display.
I forgot that Lexis Nexis does a pretty good job of explaining how to do these things. See here, for example.
If you're so inclined, LexisNexis also has a nifty guide to navigating the paper version of Shepard's (pdf)
When I shepardize a case, I usually do so by clicking the "Next Steps" feature on the case display.
I forgot that Lexis Nexis does a pretty good job of explaining how to do these things. See here, for example.
If you're so inclined, LexisNexis also has a nifty guide to navigating the paper version of Shepard's (pdf)
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
First Amendment and the Internet
A student in one of the Law classes recently emailed me about issues with finding First amendment cases in LexisNexis that concern the online environment. I've pasted an edited version of my reply below.
Mucho disclaimer: This represents just one way to approach the problem. By this posting, I don't intend to scoop up new decisions or follow this issue unless it becomes a personal interest.
Thanks for your question. Sounds like you're doing a pretty thorough search; here are some suggestions, based on what what you wrote.
First, from what you describe, you're using the Federal and State Cases feature in LexisNexis. Great!! There are lots of terms that might describe the online environment, you might try a few other terms. Remember you can link them all together in the keyword search box by using "OR" connectors. Copy and paste the following into your search box; mine the results for other synonyms and follow the pattern:
(internet or cyberspace or web or "world wide web" or myspace or facebook or online or AOL or computer or network)
I got more than 3000 results from this search, but then I used the "Search within results" feature to add "first amendment". Worked well for me, anyway.
You seem to be looking for any case having to do with the internet and people who have gone to court, for whatever reason, to defend their speech using the first amendment. I'm not sure, but it may be more fruitful to concentrate on particular laws that have been challenged by first amendment claim, including, but not limited to, copyright and trademark infringement, peer-to-peer file sharing, piracy. Consider also Fraud, which will yield a lot on its own.
And while it may not seem relevant at first glance, there's also Privacy, which is the other side of the coin. Oftentimes, one claims one's (first amendment) right to privacy has been violated in order to find out just what they've been saying. There's a range of wiretap laws and other terms that you can use here. Consider that recent case in which Google was sued for having pictures of some Pennsylvania couple's house on Google Earth.
As you can tell from all this, looking by particular laws might work really well, rather than wading through all the first amendment cases that involve the internet.
You might be thinking of defaming/defamation, cyberstalking (which has some laws attached to it, but still very few). And harassment, which will surely offer you some cases. here are a few cases on harassment involving the internet, students and the first amendment (all in lexis!)
2008 u.s. dist. Lexis Nexis 72685 j.s. v. blue mountain school district
412 f.supp. 2d 502 layshock v. hermitage school district (2006)
a.b. v. state of indiana 863 n.e. 2d 1212
You might also do a case law search on applicable laws, which might be the Communications Decency Act, or the Interstate Stalking Act (47 usc 223) or the children's online privacy protection act. Other applicable laws are 18 usc 2425, and 18 usc 875(c).
[I say "might be..." because one might go to court to defend ones self against such a claim of violation of such laws via the first amendment. What's actually taken place in court is up to you to discover.]
Couple of sites that might help you scope things down and find relevant cases and laws are
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/computer_and_internet_fraud
And try out the Law Reviews and Journals feature in LexisNexis to get some background.
It's important to note that laws pertaining to cyberspace are relatively new, and so sometimes other laws (not those listed above) are the conditions under which a trial takes place. It's also important to note that pending cases might yield more than the decisions themselves. head over to the Unified Court System website and search the eCourts feature for pending cases that might relate (although the first amendment is a federal matter, NYS courts might have similar cases pending). Finally, remember that Lexis only represents judicial matters; it might be worthwhile to see if the Commissioner's decisions yield anything, too.
Mucho disclaimer: This represents just one way to approach the problem. By this posting, I don't intend to scoop up new decisions or follow this issue unless it becomes a personal interest.
Thanks for your question. Sounds like you're doing a pretty thorough search; here are some suggestions, based on what what you wrote.
First, from what you describe, you're using the Federal and State Cases feature in LexisNexis. Great!! There are lots of terms that might describe the online environment, you might try a few other terms. Remember you can link them all together in the keyword search box by using "OR" connectors. Copy and paste the following into your search box; mine the results for other synonyms and follow the pattern:
(internet or cyberspace or web or "world wide web" or myspace or facebook or online or AOL or computer or network)
I got more than 3000 results from this search, but then I used the "Search within results" feature to add "first amendment". Worked well for me, anyway.
You seem to be looking for any case having to do with the internet and people who have gone to court, for whatever reason, to defend their speech using the first amendment. I'm not sure, but it may be more fruitful to concentrate on particular laws that have been challenged by first amendment claim, including, but not limited to, copyright and trademark infringement, peer-to-peer file sharing, piracy. Consider also Fraud, which will yield a lot on its own.
And while it may not seem relevant at first glance, there's also Privacy, which is the other side of the coin. Oftentimes, one claims one's (first amendment) right to privacy has been violated in order to find out just what they've been saying. There's a range of wiretap laws and other terms that you can use here. Consider that recent case in which Google was sued for having pictures of some Pennsylvania couple's house on Google Earth.
As you can tell from all this, looking by particular laws might work really well, rather than wading through all the first amendment cases that involve the internet.
You might be thinking of defaming/defamation, cyberstalking (which has some laws attached to it, but still very few). And harassment, which will surely offer you some cases. here are a few cases on harassment involving the internet, students and the first amendment (all in lexis!)
2008 u.s. dist. Lexis Nexis 72685 j.s. v. blue mountain school district
412 f.supp. 2d 502 layshock v. hermitage school district (2006)
a.b. v. state of indiana 863 n.e. 2d 1212
You might also do a case law search on applicable laws, which might be the Communications Decency Act, or the Interstate Stalking Act (47 usc 223) or the children's online privacy protection act. Other applicable laws are 18 usc 2425, and 18 usc 875(c).
[I say "might be..." because one might go to court to defend ones self against such a claim of violation of such laws via the first amendment. What's actually taken place in court is up to you to discover.]
Couple of sites that might help you scope things down and find relevant cases and laws are
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu
http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/computer_and_internet_fraud
And try out the Law Reviews and Journals feature in LexisNexis to get some background.
It's important to note that laws pertaining to cyberspace are relatively new, and so sometimes other laws (not those listed above) are the conditions under which a trial takes place. It's also important to note that pending cases might yield more than the decisions themselves. head over to the Unified Court System website and search the eCourts feature for pending cases that might relate (although the first amendment is a federal matter, NYS courts might have similar cases pending). Finally, remember that Lexis only represents judicial matters; it might be worthwhile to see if the Commissioner's decisions yield anything, too.
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