Links to bylaws and ordinances from more than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns are available through the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries. [Via Massachusetts Law Updates.]…

The folks at phosita bring you Blawg Review #34 — the tryptophan overdose edition.…

For the first time in Massachusetts, the court system will use the Web to evaluate judges, it announced yesterday. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Judicial Performance Evaluation Committee is embarking on a round of evaluations of judges in Suffolk County, where Boston is located. The committee has already sent print evaluation questionnaires to lawyers…

Bill Heinze reports on Harold C. Wegner’s latest list of the top 10 patent cases likely to come before the Supreme Court. The entire paper is available through IPcentral.info.…

Reporters Without Borders marks the World Summit on the Information Society by presenting 15 countries that are “enemies of the Internet” — “the countries that crack down hardest on Internet use, censoring news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes imprisoning Internet users and…

Winners have been announced for The BOBs – Best of the Blogs, the 2005 Deutsche Welle International Weblog Awards. Selected as overall best blog was A Little Respect, I’m Your Mother, a “blognovel” of more than 200 chapters. We of the Law.com blog network are proud to boast that our own

In a first-of-its-kind event, liberal bloggers from throughout Massachusetts will meet Dec. 10 for a forum being called BlogLeft Massachusetts. The event will be held at Tatnuck Bookseller & Cafe in Worcester from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Speakers will include pioneering political blogger Stirling Newberry of…

Dennis Crouch rounds them up.…

The congressional research site THOMAS has a new look and several new features. According to this Library of Congress announcement Friday, new features include:…

Time flies when you’re having fun. Today marks the third anniversary of the launch of this blog. Here was my first post. Since then, I’ve launched a second blog, Media Law, a podcast, Coast to Coast, and become part of the Law.com blog network. Most importantly, through my blog, I’ve made…

With key provisions of the Patriot Act due to sunset Dec. 31 and in the wake of a frightening report by The Washington Post about the FBI’s excessive use of national security letters, this week’s Coast to Coast podcast focuses on The Patriot Act. Joining cohost J. Craig Williams and me to…

The Federal Election Commission today unanimously approved an advisory opinion finding that a blog qualifies for the “press exception” to federal campaign finance law. I have more information on my Media Law blog.…