Moritz Legal Information Blog

InSite recently wrote about the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy . From Insite : Sponsored by Capital University Law School, the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy (NCALP) seeks to improve the law, policies, and practices associated with child protection and adoption systems using education, advocacy, and research. The NCALP website provides a weekly news summary and information about several of the Center's projects, such as the Adoption JobSite and the Adoption LawSite Project. Legal researchers will be interested in the site's "Weekly Case Summaries," a weekly summary of relevant case law in the areas of adoption, and child welfare available via e-mail or through the Center's website. Summary archives are available back to 2002.

The FBI has released it's 2005 Crime Statistics . From beSpacific .

From Bonnie Shucha at WisBlawg : PIC , the AALL Publishing Initiatives Caucus, is pleased to introduce a new and improved database of articles published by law librarians. These articles appeared in legal publications that are read by practicing attorneys, legal administrators, law professors, judges, and others in organizations that employ AALL members. Note that you can resort this list by author, article title, publication, etc. by clicking the field name at the top. You can also do a search by author, title, publication, etc. (see link at top).

From the U.S. Supreme Court : Beginning with the October 2006 Term, the Court will make the transcripts of oral arguments available free to the public on its Web site, http://www.supremecourtus.gov/index.html , on the same day an argument is heard by the Court. In the past, the transcripts had been posted on the Web site approximately two weeks after the close of an argument session. Previously, transcripts could be obtained sooner than they were posted on the Court's Web site by making arrangements in advance and purchasing them from the Court's contract reporting service. In the past, oral arguments had been transcribed off-site from audio recordings. The Court's current contract reporting service, Alderson Reporting Company, will now utilize the services of a court reporter in the Courtroom and high-speed technology to transcribe the oral arguments more quickly. Transcripts can be located by clicking on the "Oral Arguments" prompt on the home page of the Co

This is a headline that you don't see everyday: Roller Derby Offers Out-of-Court Outlet for Legal Adversaries . From the Texas Lawyer (via Law.com ).

The National Archives and Records Administration has compiled a list of 100 milestone documents in U.S. history. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965. All of the documents on the list are viewed as scanned images of the originals. The list includes important documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Check for the Purchase of Alaska, and the Surrender of Japan. From Reference Cafe .

The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released a report indicating that "[t]h number of suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system grew substantially during the 10-year period of 1994 to 2003." The full report can be download from this web page . From TVC .