“These are my principles If you don’t like them I have others.” - Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx

Good morning all you Law Buffs and Calves,

“These are my principles If you don’t like them I have others.” (Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx). Ah, it’s been wonderful seeing y’all! How’s the exam prep going? We’re here if you need reference or circulation help. Remember to reach out to your friendly neighborhood law librarian. Afterall, we know where the old exams, exam prep books, and more are located.

The following are 10 interesting articles from the previous week. These articles were pulled from either the: ABA Newsletter, AALL Newsletter, vLex Newsletter, Law360, Law Practice Magazine Newsletter, LexisNexis’ Practical Guidance Newsletter, Bloomberglaw Filings of Note and/or Frontiers Newsletter. Enjoy! 

Excerpt: “Beloved professor and director of the William A. Wise Law Library, Susan Nevelow Mart will retire at the end of the 2021-22 school year. Since she joined the Colorado Law faculty in July of 2011, Professor Mart has been a source of great wisdom and collegiality in the community. She has written and presented nationally and locally on the effects of algorithms on legal research, legal information policy, national security and libraries, access to information, computer information retrieval systems, and legal research pedagogy.”

“U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled that a jury trial will take place this December to determine whether Swedish telecom company Ericsson is fairly licensing standard-essential 5G technology to Apple Inc. and scuttled the iPhone maker's bid to push that issue to a more complex jury trial over the patents next year.”

“The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled the state's Department of Revenue can be considered a ‘victim’ for restitution purposes and remanded a case involving unpaid marijuana excise taxes back to the trial court for further proceedings.” 

“An increase in homelessness has meant an increase in lawsuits over the issue, but two different sets of cases are seeking two very different and often opposing solutions, with cities caught in the middle.” 

Introduction: “You’re about done with your brief, but still have one more thing to do: your Table of Authorities. Don’t worry if you haven’t started this yet. It’s a good idea to do this at the end. Creating your Table gives you one more chance to check your citations and your work. And, if you do this too early and then make major changes to your document, you can cause errors in your Table Coding.”

“Anticipating prosecution, nonprofit Upsolve states intent to violate New York’s UPL rules and claims First Amendment protection”

Introduction: “One of the fundamental difficulties in doing policy advocacy, including, and perhaps especially tech policy advocacy, is that we are not only speaking of technology, which can often seem inscrutable and scary to non-experts, but law, which itself is an intricate and often opaque system. This complicated nature of our legal system can present challenges, because policy involves an application of law to technology, and we can’t apply it well when we don’t understand how the law works. (It’s also hard to do well when we don’t understand how the technology works, either, but this post is about the law part so we’ll leave the issues with understanding technology aside for now.)” 

“It can be daunting to raise disagreements, but it is better than the alternative outcomes.”

“Following these suggestions may impress your supervising associates by highlighting your attention to detail and your dedication.”