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The Supreme Court Historical Society has recently published Table for 9: Supreme Court Food Traditions & Recipes . Compiled by the Society's publications director, Clare Cushman (who has authored several other works on Supreme Court history), this book also includes a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Table for 9 features eye-catching illustrations and recipes from the archives of the U.S. Supreme Court, along with trivia about food traditions among the Court and its justices. In the Court's early days, the justices resided together at a boarding house, where meals were shared. In the late 1800s, afternoon oral argument schedules did not allow for a lunch break. Justices stepped behind the bench one at a time and ate lunch during arguments, to the dismay of counsel. Following repeated complaints from attorneys about the rotating bench, Chief Justice Fuller added a 30-minute lunch break to the schedule in 1898. Today's justices enjoy an hour-long lunch recess a...

Law.com , the online home of American Lawyer Media (ALM) publications like The National Law Journal and American Lawyer , is now available to the Law School community. In addition to Law.com online-only content, electronic versions of the following publications are included: American Lawyer  AmLaw Litigation Daily  Connecticut Law Tribune  Corporate Counsel  Daily Business Review  Daily Report  Delaware Business Court Insider  Delaware Law Weekly  Inside Counsel  Legal Intelligencer  Legal Tech News  National Law Journal  New Jersey Law Journal  New York Law Journal  Supreme Court Brief  Texas Lawyer  The Recorder Full text access is available within the Law School's IP range at Law.com , and current Law School community members may also create a personal account (allowing mobile and off-campus access) at this site . (ALM publications are also available to the Law School community withi...

Did your New Year's resolution list include "learn a new language" or "read more books"? While these two goals don't top the survey results of New Year's resolutions for 2018 , they're certainly a few smaller ways to help you keep the most popular resolution in America this year: "Enjoy life to the fullest." Thanks to the NC Live consortium , the Duke University community has new tools to help you achieve your 2018 goals. NC Live offers access to more than a hundred subscription databases through a user's "home" public or academic library (meaning that North Carolina residents without a current Duke NetID may also be able to access the site through their public or academic library at https://www.nclive.org/ ). NC Live has long included helpful resources for searching articles, consumer information, and other resources, and more than a dozen new sources have been added for 2018-2020 . Two particularly notable new additions ar...

Happy New Year! The beginning of a new year usually brings some new laws, as previously enacted legislation often takes effect on January 1, unless otherwise specified in the act itself or in the jurisdiction's laws on effective dates . Some of the highest-profile state law changes around the country include California's legalization of recreational marijuana sales and New York's sweeping family leave plan for businesses. Additional highlights of state law changes can be found on CNN and NPR . In North Carolina, the legislature provides a PDF of 2017 legislation , sorted by effective date, with links to the enacted laws. Twenty state session laws enacted in 2017 took effect as of January 1. Most notably , the North Carolina driver's education curriculum has been revised to include instruction on handling vehicle stops by law enforcement. The full text of this new law can be found on the legislature website at S.L. 2017-95 . Another law change which has caused conf...