Legal Resources News and Notes
Here are some new or updated legal resources that have recently been announced:
Cell Phone Driving Laws: The Governors Highway Safety Association provides a chart of state cell phone driving laws. The chart indicates whether 1) the state collects crash data related to cell phone use, 2) there are restrictions on cell phone use for novice drivers, 3) there are other restrictions, and 4) there are preemption laws, or laws than ban municipalities from implementing restrictions. While the chart is a good place to start research on this topic, it does not provide the legal citation for referenced laws.
Electronic Discovery Law: The law firm, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP, sponsors this blog on news and developments pertaining to electronic data discovery (EDD). Lawyers comment on newsworthy events as well as important case law. A case law database lets you search for state or federal cases by keyword. (The search box appears on the left in the middle of the page.) Additional features include amendments to federal rules, annotated resources and an RSS feed.
EDD Update: Law.com sponsors this blog on electronic data discovery (EDD). It provides brief commentary on legal news and events.
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has new web address:
"The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is relocating its Internet Web page to its own in-house servers. As part of this process, the court's Web page address and domain name will be changed to www.cafc.uscourts.gov on October 1, 2007. The former Web page address and domain name, www.fedcir.gov, will continue to be kept active through December 31, 2007, in order to redirect users to the new address. The new domain name brings the Federal Circuit into conformance with the Web site naming convention used by the other United States Courts of Appeals. Web site authors and others who have created links to pages inside the www.fedcir.gov Web page should change the URL of those links to the new URL on October 1, 2007. Please direct any questions to the CAFC Webmaster at webmaster@cafc.uscourts.gov. We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience during this transition."
Sources: TVC Alert and Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.