New York Times

December 20, 2018

 

 

"In fashion, there is a fine line separating inspiration and theft. So who is the rightful inventor of the blockbuster swimsuit known as the Kiini?"

 

 

 

 

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/kiini-bikini-lawsuit-ipek-irgit-solange-ferrarini.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

 

 

 

ABA Journal

December 21, 2018 

 

 

What were 2018's most important legal tech stories?

 

 

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/toptentech

 

 

California Courts Newsroom

December 21, 2018

 

 

Groban will take the bench for oral argument beginning Jan. 8.

 

 

https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/commission-confirms-joshua-groban-to-the-supreme-court-of-california

 

 

California Courts Newsroom

December 21, 2018

 

 

Appointments were confirmed to the First and Second Appellate Districts

 

 

 https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/commission-confirms-six-appointments-to-courts-of-appeal

 

 

December 21, 2018

Julie Brook, ESQ.

 

Changes in California in 2019.

 

 

 https://blog.ceb.com/2018/12/21/new-year-new-laws-for-civil-litigators-3/#more-22006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

California Courts Newsroom

December 20, 2018 

 

 

"Under the leadership of Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and the Judicial Council, and working with the courts and justice partners, the state judicial branch was instrumental in ushering in major changes to the court system and ensuring equal access to justice for all Californians."

 

 

 https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/2018-year-in-review

 

 

California Courts Newsroom

December 19, 2018 

 

"Founded in 1868 by a legislative act "to provide a law library to the Supreme Court," the California Judicial Center Library (CJCL) holds more than 200,000 volumes of federal and California legal resources, and handles more than 800 in-depth requests a year from justices, attorneys, and judicial assistants."

 

 

 https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-judicial-center-library-celebrates-150th-anniversary

 

 

 

Smithsonian Magazine

January 2019 

 

"At midnight on New Year’s Eve, all works first published in the United States in 1923 will enter the public domain. It has been 21 years since the last mass expiration of copyright in the U.S."

 

 

 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/

 

 

 

ABA Journal

December 10, 2018

 

"The new law will affect any smart device sold in California, including consumer and enterprise tools. Starting Jan. 1, 2020, manufacturers of connected devices will have to include “reasonable security” features to protect stored or transmitted information from “unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.”

 

 

 http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/new_california_imposes_regulations_on_the_internet_of_things/?icn=most_read

 

 

 

 

LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 110:4 [2018-20]

 

 

This study evaluates and compares how accurately three legal citators (Shepard’s, KeyCite, and BCite) identify negative treatment of case law, based on a review of 357 citing relationships that at least one citator labeled as negative. In this sample, Shepard’s and KeyCite missed or mislabeled about one-third of negative citing relationships, while BCite missed or mislabeled over two-thirds. The citators’ relative performance is less clear when examining the most serious citator errors, examples of which can be found in all three citators.

 

 

 

 Paul Hellyer, Evaluating Shepard’s, KeyCite, and Bcite for Case Validation Accuracy, 110 Law Libr. J. 449 (2018), https://www.aallnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/LLJ_110n4_02_hellyer.pdf