Articles Posted in May, 2004

Declan McCullagh writes about judges turning to search engines to check facts, look up information about companies in litigation, and challenge statistics presented by attorneys in court. Are judges making their own evidentiary records? If so, is this permitted? The answers are less clear than you might expect, the article suggests. (Thanks to Steve…

As a word, soople is said to derive from an early English dialect and mean to soften or make supple. As a Web site, Soople is Google for dummies. Google has a front page so Spartan that the casual user might never suspect that it is home to an array of search power…

Via TalkLeft comes news of new Web site for those who consider themselves politically progressive. Called Moving Ideas, its stated goal is “to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.” The site features research and reports from member organizations, legislative news and…

The Memory Hole has the uncensored version of the National Labor Relations Board’s 10(j) manual, used to guide its attorneys in seeking injunctive against unfair labor practices. This is said to be a “bootleg” of the manual that the NLRB has on its own site in a redacted version.…