Moritz Legal Information Blog

The Supreme Court is now in summer recess. And so, too, is long time Supreme Court beat reporter at the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse. She has retired from the NYTimes. I missed this story when it broke way back in February, and for those of you who did, too, here it is .

While the debate about laptop bans in law school classrooms rages on here, the Parliament of Bhutan has made the definite decision to ban legislators from bringing their laptops to the Parliamentary floor. Why? Because they are allegedly distracted playing computer games, of course!

Another list of top 100 legal blogs has been posted . This time by a group called Criminal Justice Degrees Guide. I see some glaring errors (e.g., SCOTUSblog and Sentencing Law and Policy are not included), but the list is helpful in that it presents the top few blawgs by subject area, such as Law Professors, Law Students, Judiciary, Environmental Law, Criminal Law, and Foreign Law. In addition, the criminal justice perspective is different from the academic legal perspective we normally see.

Bob Morse of the U.S. News & World Report posts that U.S. News is considering two changes to the rankings. One change is aimed at preventing law schools from "gaming" the rankings by admitting students with low LSAT scores into the part-time program. The other would change the way bar passage rate is calculated. The latter change would help mostly California schools. You can comment on the proposed changes.

Allison Shields has an interesting post about the evolving standards of professional and casual dress for women at the Legal Ease Blog. From the Stark County Law Library Blog .

Top Google search tips and Advanced Web Searching . From TVC .

Carolyn Elefant on Legal Blog Watch describes two tools ( Alltop - Law and LexMonitor ) to monitor legal blogs that do not rely on newsreaders such as Bloglines or Google Reader .