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Researching Gun Regulation

Today marks 19 years since the shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in which two students killed 13 of their classmates before committing suicide. Since that tragic day, such incidents have become sadly more commonplace, with Education Week creating a statistical tracker to record school shootings in 2018 . Already this year, 22 people have lost their lives in school shootings, with the majority of these victims killed during the February 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Parkland shooting has since galvanized the national debate about gun control reform. Yesterday, legal research database HeinOnline announced the release of a free new online library on Gun Regulation and Legislation in America , which is now available to the Duke University community. This library compiles federal legislative histories of firearms laws, congressional committee hearings, Congressional Research Service reports, Supreme Court briefs...

Summer Access to Research Services

Whether you're heading to a summer job or graduating this May, your access to legal research services like Westlaw , Lexis Advance , and Bloomberg Law will change. Continuing Students For rising 2Ls and 3Ls, your Law School research access generally continues uninterrupted over the summer. Lexis Advance and Bloomberg Law both allow student usage over the summer for educational as well as for commercial purposes . (However, check with your employer before using your Law School accounts for paid work – many employers prefer that summer associates avoid using their school accounts for researching firm matters.) Westlaw restricts continuing students' summer access to non-commercial/educational research purposes only . The eligible categories for summer access include: Summer coursework for academic credit Research Assistant assignments Law Review or Journal research Moot Court research Non-profit or clinical work Unpaid externship Continuing students will receive...

The Little Rascals Daycare Case Papers

A new display in the Riddick Room case features material from the library's most recent archival acquisition, the Little Rascals Daycare Case Papers . The collection concerns seven people who were falsely accused of sexually abusing dozens of children at a daycare in Edenton, North Carolina in the late 1980s. The case is one example of the preoccupation with perceived abuse taking place at daycares and preschools in the 1980s and 1990s. Often, these cases also involved allegations of Satanism or devil worship. Like the Little Rascals case, most of these daycare abuse accusations turned out to be false. Riddick Room display of Little Rascals Daycare Case Papers; curated by Lee Cloninger & Cas Laskowski The Little Rascals Daycare material primarily concerns State v. Kelly , the trial of Robert "Bob" Kelly, the husband of the daycare's manager, Betsy Kelly. Both were members of the "Edenton Seven." Only two of the seven ever went to trial. Altho...