Noscitur a Sociis: Volume 1, No. 2 (August 2008)

Volume 1, No. 2 (March 2008)

Federal Materials

Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Online Library
http://hazmat.dot.gov/enforce/forms/ohmforms.htm
Office of Hazardous Materials Safety is the Federal safety authority for ensuring the safe transport of hazardous materials by air, rail, highway, and water. With Boston’s new BioLab and the LNG Tanker controversies, this has become a more active site. The Library has files that are the most frequently requested by shippers, carriers, Federal and State agencies, as well as members of the general public.

Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-SecretsPrivilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers http://www.fjc.gov/public/pdf.nsf/lookup/secrets1.pdf/$file/secrets1.pdf
This guide produced by the Federal Judicial Center was designed to familiarize federal judges with statutes and procedures established to help public courts protect government secrets when courts are called upon to do so. The guide provides information about the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), information security officers, and secure storage facilities.

Cases Against Doctors
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/crim_admin_actions/
The Office of Diversion Control of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) offers a listing of DEA investigations of physicians that resulted in an arrest, as well as a listing of administrative actions. The listings appear in alphabetical order. Browsing only; you cannot search them. With the criminal cases, information provided includes the name of the physician, his/her city and state, date of the arrest, date of the prosecution, judicial status, description of the conviction, and more. Hope my doctor isn’t there!

State Materials

State of the States 2008
http://archive.stateline.org/flash-data/StateOfTheStates2008.pdf
Trusted Stateline.org offers a 76-page report that covers major state topics such as politics, health care, gambling, stem cell research, infrastructure, education, and immigration.

New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR)
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/info/nycrr.htm
With help from Westlaw (ahem….Alfreda!), the New York Secretary of State makes available an unofficial compilation of all New York State codes, rules and regulations. Currently, you cannot browse the collection. "This initial release of the online NYCRR does not yet include a table of contents. To find desired text, visitors [click the link for NYCRR, and then] simply enter a search term or NYCRR citation. A table of contents will be available in the near future."

Topical

Refugee Caselaw Database
http://www.refugeecaselaw.org/guidedsearch.asp
Easy Guided Search interface and a solid collection of refugee cases, this collection features cases from the highest national courts of Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Also, since 2004, the collection has been expanded to include decisions from other asylum countries, as well as the most important decisions of lower courts and tribunals in the core collection states.

Lemon Justice
http://www.lemonjustice.com/lemonmeter.html
This page allows you, by answering a few questions about the type of car you own and your current residence, to determine if your car is covered under a particular state’s lemon laws.

NAFTA Decisions
http://www.worldlii.org/int/cases/NAFTA/
While all these Presidential Candidates are talking about who voted for NAFTA or not, WorldLII has created a database contains decisions arising from the treaty. Updated frequently by record culled from the NAFTA Secretariat website.

Egyptian Civil Code Translated
http://www.tashreaat.com/view_studies2.asp?std_id=82
In one of those rare moments of serendipity, I found a website put out by LADIS (Legislation and Development Information Systems) an IT company based in Egypt specializing in business and information systems for government and public sector bodies.

Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries
http://www.arabhumanrights.org/en/
The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries is a project of the UN Development Programme on Governance in the Arab Region. The website is a repository of UN human rights documents enhanced with responses, including ratifications and reservations, of the Arab countries. Twenty-two countries are included, from Algeria to Yemen. Charts are provided for each convention that list status, signature date, ratification, and date in force by country.

FUN

ManyBooks
http://manybooks.net
This great site offers free books for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader. You may also download the PDFs to your computer and read them that way. The site offers over 18,000 e-books in many, many categories. Obviously, you are not going to find a lot of legal texts, but I did find some good Dr. Who books!