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University of RichmondUR Scholarship RepositoryMuseletter Muse Law Library12-2002Museletter: December 2002James WirrellUniversity of RichmondFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/museletterPart of the Other Law CommonsThis Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Muse Law Library at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion inMuseletter by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact scholarshiprepository@richmond.edu.Recommended CitationWirrell, James, "Museletter: December 2002" (2002). Museletter. Book 69.http://scholarship.richmond.edu/museletter/69THIS ISSUE: B.NA. Services Online 1-2 Winter Break Hours 2 .Wehs-ite of the Month lVinter C/0Ji11gs Holiday H11mor Spring 2002 Regular . Library Hours Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 'Midnight Mon.-Thurs. . · 7:30 a.m. - Midnight Friday 7:30 a._m.- 9:00 p.m . . ·. Saturday 9:oo a.m. - 9:00 p.ni. Spring 2002 hours begin on Sunday, January 5, 2003 For 3 3 4 Winter Break Hours . please see page 2 Volume 17, Issue 4 ' December 2002 -B.N.A. SERVICES. ONLINE: Ef\_SIER ACCESS To ·USEF.UL B.N .A. TITLES BY JAMES WIRRELL Have you checked out the Law Library's new BNA Online ·services yet? This fall, the Law Li-brary has added BNA's online services to its vir-tual collection. This is . a subscription service available for Jaculty and students who are · logged on to the Law School's netWork .. What's A vai/ab/e The BNA online services include the online ver-sions of BNA publications jn such diverse legal areas as anti-trust, . banking, bankruptcy, corpo-rate, criminal, e-commerce, environment, family, health care, intellectual property, in-ternational, labor and employment, products liability, professional conduct, ·securities, tax ·and the U.S. Supreme Court. · · NQtable BNA publications and collections online are the, Bankruptcy Law Reporter, . Criminal Law Reporter, Daily .Tax Report, El}vironmental and Safety Library, Family · · Law Reporter, Labor and Employment Law Library and the U.S. Law Week . . A com-plete list of titles is available at the BNA site accessed via the Law Library search . page. Go to http://l9bo.richmond.edu/lawlibrary and select "on line legal research" and then "BNA" from the left menu. Or you can go directly to the Law Library's BNA page at http://lobo. richmond~ed u/lawlibrary/bna: htm. Using U.S. Law Week The introductory page .of U.S. Law Week gives highlights of the current week's legal . developments. Previous weekly legal news and case alert highlights can be viewed back to July 1997. Users may also review case summaries prepared by BNA editors or the full text opinions. Select "case citations" to view the summaries. Both summa-ries and full opinions can be brqwsed by case name, decision date or topic. ·-A very useful feature of U.S. Law Week is the "Supreme Court Today" service. This provides a daily summary of Supreme Court actions including cases decided, granted review ' and denied r~view. . Coverage extends back · to October 1996. . Users can browse through cases arranged by the date of decision (including decisions made to · ·accept or refuse review) and by topic. Alternatively, _users can browse cases arranged alphabetically, by docket number or by date filed . . (Continued on page· 2) rage l B.N.A. Services Online (Continued from page I) Volume 17, Issue 4 On the administrative end of things, it is possible to review the Court's journal of proceedings for each day. If you are interested in a case that the Court !'!as agreed to hear in the future you can check the upcoming argu-ment schedules to see when the Court will hear the arguments of your case and how long those arguments may take. · For cases that have already been argued you can read review~ of the arguments heard before the Coµrt. These reviews are written by BNA editors and are not official. . Examples of the usefulness of U.S. Law Week are not difficult to find. One faculty member wanted to see a list of environmental cases for which the Supreme Court had recently granted a writ of certio~ari. U.S. Law Week's "Supreme Court Today" service permitted such a search. The faculty member selected "Supreme Court Today", then selected "Topical" and "Cases Granted Review" from the rfght hand menu bar. This provided the needed list of cases. · If you would like to learn more about using U.S. Law Week or any of the B.N.A. services, please feel .free to con-tact one of the law librarians. They will be happy to provide you with a more in-depth introduction to this new li-brary resource. Winter Break Hours Happy Holidays! Effective Friday, December 13 through Saturday, January 4 Friday, December 13 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday, December 14 &: Sunday, December !5 Closed Monday, December 16-Friday, December 20 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Saturday, December 21-Sunday, December 22 Closed · Monday, December 23 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. · Tuesday, December 24-Wednesday,January 1 Closed Thursday,January 2-Friday,January 3 7:30 a.m. -6:00 p.m. Saturday, January 4 Closed Sunday,January 5 RESUME REGULAR SPRING HOURS c a M;useletter ( Website of the Month-Finding Basic British Law on the Internet This month. there will -not be just one website, but rather several. They all provide quick · qnd easy access to primary British 1;;3w on the internet:' Most of these sites are official Brit- . ish government sources an.d the information that is to be obtained is mostly from the mid-1990's on. A good basic site to begin with is the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (http:// www.bailii.org/) which aims to provide access tb all freely available court opinions and leg-islation in Britain and Ireland. This site permits users to search for legislation and court opinions for Ireland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales, Scotland, and the United King-·dom generally, The United Kingdom Parliament has its own site (http://www.·parliament.uk/) where one can search the recent Hansard reports (think Congressional Record); bills before Parlia-ment; and a directory of Members of Parliament (M.P.'s) and Peers. For Americans who are linguistically challenged when faced with British government vocabulary, this Parlia-_mentary site also includes an online glossary of terms. · Her .Majesty's Statione,.Y Office (http://iµww.hmso.gov.uk/) ·-is tlie internet site . for th~ official government printer in Britain. From this site you can find , among . other things, recent Acts of Parliament (http://www.legislation.hmso. gov. uk/acts:htm) and Statutor}i Instruments· (http://www. legislation.hmso.gov.uk/stat.htm). Acts .of Parliament are analogous to American. Statutes at Large while Statutory I ristruments are .ttie British government's regulations. The HMSO site also permits .one to search for legislation from the various sub-parts of the Unit.ed Kingdom such -as Northern Ireland and Scotland. -Page 3 William T qylor Muse, for whom the library is · -named, was the University Of R.ichmond's law ·school Dean from 194 7 until his · death in .1971. Dean Muse also -served as President · of the Virginia Bar Association . and various. com- , -missions of the ,..--------------------------------------------------~ Virginia·General Winter Closings Assembfy, and au.: With winter upon us, it is important to know where to find out if the Law School is . closed due to inclefT!ent weather. · You·r best bet is_ to call the University's Emergency Hot-line at 289-8760. This is your conclusive and official source for closing information. Law students can also call the _ Law Sch.ool's Dean's Office at 289-87 40 for updates specific to the Law-School. · If you can not make it to a telephone, _ you can listen to radio stations WRVA (AM . 1140), WRVQ (FM 94,5) or . · WCVE (FM 88.9) or watch television ~ stations WTVR (CBS) - Channel 6, WRIC (ABC) - Channel' 8, ) WWBT-(NBC) - Channel 12, or WCVE/WCVW (PBS) - Channel r . · 23. · thored the· Virginia annotation to the -Restatement on Torts. . " Holiday Humor -Now that exams are over, do you need a little chuckle for the holiday season? There · is a good supply of law related holiday humor to be found · on the internet. Following are some s·ites to tickle your funny bone. To really impress their friends and family about their upcoming 1.egal career, law stu-dents can cut and paste this legalese seasonal greeting for their holiday cards (http:// Www.baetzler.de/humor/lawyers .... seasonal_greeting.html). Just don't be surprised if you aren't invited to Christmas dinner. At "A Legal Christmas" Janies Fuqua has collected a few jokes including some interesting legaJese renditions of . "Twas the Night Before Christmas", (http://www.jamesfuqua.com/lawyers/jokes/christmas.shtml). Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't help but laugh at this account of the ACLU suing Santa Claus for invasion of chil-dren's privacy. Cbeck out "ACLU vs. Santa Claus" at http://WWW.baetzler.de/humor/santa_lawsuit.html. And just so you know, the Law .Library regularly .POntributes the names of those with overdue books or unpaid fines to Santa Claus's vast "naughty or nice" database. If you haven't had enough quizzes, what .with exams and all, try this Christmas Quiz where your task is to decipher titles for Christmas carols. Find the quiz (and the answers!) at http://www.commonplaceboo~.com/humor/xmas/ quiz1 .shtm. · · · James Wirrell, Editor Museletter Law Library, School o_fLaw University of Richmond Richmond,. VA 23173 The Museletter is the official newsletter of the Wiitiam Taylor Muse Law Library at the School of Law of the Universify of Richmond, R!chmond, .' VA23173. Editor: James Wirrell ( 

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