Test shows the majority of S.D. County students are out of shape: http://bit.ly/4IGPYo
This is about elementary school and junior high students, but doesnt it apply to you as well? 

Bummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmer, especially at finals. 🙁

GOOD LUCK ANYWAY!!!! 

New title in the LRC!  Just released from NYU Press, "The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law," contains the stories of the Guantanamo detainees as told by their lawyers.  It is edited by Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, who represented Guantanamo detainees themselves, and who collected stories covering life and the ensuing litigation at Guantanamo. Earlier this year we posted about the online archive of Guantanamo material put forward by these two scholars, and hosted by New York University Libraries.

From the publisher:

Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These men, ranging from teenage boys to men in their eighties from over forty different countries, were detained for years without charges, trial, and a fair hearing. Without any legal status or protection, they were truly outside the law: imprisoned in secret, denied communication with their families, and subjected to extreme isolation, physical and mental abuse, and, in some instances, torture.

These are the detainees’ stories, told by their lawyers because the prisoners themselves were silenced. It took habeas counsel more than two years—and a ruling from the United States Supreme Court—to finally gain the right to visit and talk to their clients at Guantánamo. Even then, lawyers were forced to operate under severe restrictions designed to inhibit communication and envelop the prison in secrecy. In time, however, lawyers were able to meet with their clients and bring the truth about Guantánamo to the world.

Available in the LRC Reading Room at KZ6495 .G83 2009  

The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review is publishing a new online supplement that will provide information on recent significant legislation and cases, articles that discuss policy proposals as they relate to current local and national civil rights issues, and articles that are comprised of dialogues among scholars and practitioners on hot issues. Check it out at: http://harvardcrcl.org/amicus

For those of you who are interested in learning more about how social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. can be used in the legal profession, check out Martindale-Hubbell’s Connected, which will be offering a series of webinars on this topic. Go to the following site for more information or to sign up for a webinar: http://blog.martindale.com/social-media-what-every-legal-professional-needs-to-know

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two companion cases regarding whether it is cruel and unusual punishment within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment to sentence a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole for committing a non-homicide offense.  The two cases are Graham v. Florida, No. 08-7412, in which Terrance Graham was sentenced to life for armed burglary at age 16 and a probation violation at age 17, and Sullivan v. Florida, No. 08-7621, in which a 13-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for the rape of an elderly woman.

The Petitioner, Respondent, and numerous amici on both sides raise international and comparative law issues (see e.g., the amicus brief filed by Amnesty International).  In the past, the U.S. Supreme Court has frequently turned to international and foreign law to inform its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. Graham, Sullivan, and their supporters argue that there is a consensus among states and among nations of the world that life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is an inappropriate sentence for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses.

I’m sure many of you saw that Google enabled case law searching through its Google Scholar interface today.  More info here!

How this evolves  will be very interesting to watch.  Can Google become a credible competitor to Westlaw/Lexis?  Who is in a betting frame of mind?