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HCLL Alert
November 2003
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| Announcing Public Access WESTLAW |
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 | The Hennepin County Law Library will hold an Open House December 8-12, 2003 to introduce its new subscription to Public Access Westlaw. Two dedicated workstations are available for searching Westlaw in the Law Library at no charge. There is access to the following databases:
- State case law, all 50 states
- Annotated statutes, all 50 states
- State administrative codes
- State administrative agency decisions
- Federal case law
- U.S. Code Annotated
- U.S. administrative agency decisions
- ALR
Representatives from Thomson-West, providers of Westlaw, will be available at the following times to provide assistance in using Public Access Westlaw:
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Monday, Dec. 8 |
11:00-1:00 |
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Tuesday, Dec. 9 |
9:00-11:00 |
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Wednesday, Dec. 10 |
11:00-1:00 |
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Thursday, Dec. 11 |
3:00-5:00 |
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Friday, Dec. 12 |
9:00-11:00 |
HOLIDAY REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED
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| Featured Web Site |
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| Focus On: Jury Instructions |
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| We are all familiar with the jury instructions available for Minnesota in volumes
4,
4A, 10, and 10A of
Minnesota Practice. For federal actions, we refer to the multi-volume
Modern Federal Jury Instructions or the classic
Federal Jury Practice and
Instructions, now in its 5th edition. But HCLL has a rich collection of jury instructions, and there may be times when some of the Library’s less familiar titles may meet your needs.
The Library maintains a collection of civil jury instructions for more than 40 states and owns criminal instructions for major and surrounding states. To see a list of state jury instructions, search
INSTRUCTIONS TO JURIES in the catalog. The headings retrieved are subdivided by jurisdiction. Some of these state instructions are published by the major legal publishers, while others are issued by state bar associations or associations of judges. In both cases, we attempt to maintain the currency of these volumes.
The same subject heading search in the catalog can be limited to retrieve titles containing jury instructions on a particular topic. With the list of
INSTRUCTIONS TO JURIES
headings displayed, LIMIT THIS SEARCH to WORDS IN THE TITLE, and enter a word or two describing the kind of jury instruction you need. In this way the list of more than 140 headings is quickly reduced to just the title with
securities or
antitrust or
employment instructions. The HCLL collection includes many volumes with specialty jury instructions from a variety of publishers:
All of these titles—and many others in the collection—are primarily jury instructions. The Library’s collection of practice treatises also includes titles with sample or actual instructions from completed cases, in addition to their discussions of litigation techniques. So, the heading search on
INSTRUCTIONS TO JURIES
will also retrieve such titles as Unfair Trade Practices Litigation and
Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal
Courts, both containing sample instructions, and Manual
on Employment Discrimination
Law and Civil Rights Actions in the Federal Courts, with its instructions from actual cases.
As with all HCLL resources, reference staff are available to recommend or suggest a particular title.
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