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The American Constitution Society is making an Index of Presidential Signing Statements, 2001-2007 , available online. The Index is described on the website: A comprehensive index of presidential signing statements issued between 2001 and 2007. The index, compiled by Neil Kinkopg, associate professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law and former special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, provides a comprehensive list of every provision of a law objected to by the White House in a signing statement, the reason for the objection, and a link to the relevant signing statement. From BoleyBlogs and the Law Librarian Blog .

Northwestern University Law School Professor Lee Epstein has created a digital archive containing some of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's papers from the Library of Congress. The archive currently contains PDF files of docket sheets and preliminary (pool) memoranda from Justice Blackmun's term on the Rehnquist Court, 1986-1993. From BarclayBlog .

"No judge ever says, 'I just wish the attorney had used bigger words.'" Read the Legal Times article (via Law.com) From Stark County Law Library Blog .

"The new website, http://www.getmyfbifile.com/ provides a quick and easy way to request your FBI Files, if they exist, from FBI Headquarters as well as the various FBI Field Offices. Additional bonus features allow you to ask for files about you at other federal agencies including the CIA, DIA, NSA, the Secret Service, and the Army Criminal Investigative Command. This is a sister site to the successful Get Grandpas FBI File website , established due to the number of people asking how they could get their own FBI File." (Michael Ravnitzky) From beSpacific .

Law students always ask me the same question about unpublished court decisions, "Why?" Law Professor Daniel Solove discusses this practice at the Concurring Opinions blog.

Tips for faculty research assistants at the Feminist Law Blog. From BoleyBlogs .

"Although I Realize Students Often Don't Like Grading on a Curve...I recommend against making a federal case out of it . The complaint in the case is here , and the motion to dismiss is here ." Law Professor Orin Kerr on the Volokh Conspiracy .