2008 Supplement to the Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution

You can check out the 2008 supplement to the 2002 edition of The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation at GPO. The 2008 supplement contains the analysis of cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court to June 26, 2008.

GPO has a lot of interesting current documents online. You might want to look at the New Member Pictorial Directory for the 111th Congress to familiarize yourself with what the new U.S. Senators and Representatives look like.

GPO is also currently featuring The U.S. Senate Manual for the 110th Congress.

I was just watching Miracle on 34th Street and I'm pretty sure attorney Fred Gailey was reading from the U.S. Government Manual. GPO only goes back to 1995, but you probably only want the 2008/2009 version anyway. Here's the section Fred would read from today.

New Financial Crisis Page on FindLaw

WestBlog announces that FindLaw has a new Financial Crisis page. The page includes news, documents, agency profiles, and more.

ALR Returns to LexisNexis

Last year I noted that the American Law Reports were leaving Lexis. Now Bonnie at WisBlawg informs us that their back. You can learn more by checking out the LexisNexis Source Information.

US Federal Court Rules Changes

The following U.S. federal court rules changed on December 1, 2008:

• Bankruptcy Rules 1005, 1006, 1007, 1009, 1010, 1011, 1015, 1017, 1019, 1020, 2002, 2003, 2007.1, 2015, 3002, 3003, 3016, 3017.1, 3019, 4002, 4003, 4004, 4006, 4007, 4008, 5001, 5003, 6004, 7012, 7022, 7023.1, 8001, 8003, 9006, 9009, and 9024, and new Bankruptcy Rules 1021, 2007.2, 2015.1, 2015.2, 2015.3, 5008, and 6011



• Supplemental Rule C(6)(a)



• Criminal Rules 1, 12.1, 17, 18, 32, 41, 45, 60, and 61

You can read more at the U.S. Courts Federal Rulemaking page. Until the House Judiciary Committee publishes them as new Committee Prints (and GPO posts them here), you can view the text of the amended rules at the U.S. Court site.

Blawg Republic?

After months of being down, the Blawg Republic has resurfaced. I'm not sure what happened, and I can't say that it's new and improved. But it's back. So, there you have it.

I think I'll e-mail them....