The Thomas Jefferson Papers

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He was admitted to the bar in 1765 and went on to shape a nation’s laws as no other lawyer before him or since. Thomas Jefferson the statesman is well known, but Jefferson the lawyer is abundantly evident in The Thomas Jefferson Papers, a collection of some 27,000 original Jefferson documents published online through…

Judge posts courtroom videos on the Web

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In my Media Law blog, I often write about public officials’ attempts to block public access to information. In Ohio, Medina County Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler is doing just the opposite. He is using the Internet to enhance public access to his courtroom.

Several months ago, Kimbler began videotaping the sentencing proceedings…