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Newsletter of the Law Library Indiana University Volume 10, Number 5 School of Law-Bloomington February 2000 NEW AND NOTEWORTHY: HOLLYWOOD GOES TO COURT by Dick Vaughan ’ve been waiting . waiting for someone to ask AMC in an attempt to purchase a copy for the me about some of the recent citations in the Law Library collection. Unfortunately the film was not ILibrary’s monthly publication, Selected for sale, but after several calls to the producer I Acquisitions of the Library. Among the usual managed to convince them to present our library listings for treatises detailing the intricacies of the with a copy of the film as a gift. Uniform Commercial Code and in-depth studies of how to write a brief, recent issues have included Once we received the film I decided to try and citations to the Three Stooges’s Disorder in the purchase all of the films that were mentioned in the Court, Shirley Temple’s Little Miss Broadway, and documentary. The documentary shows clips from the classic 60's Sci-Fi flick Planet of the Apes. twenty-eight films. Of those twenty-eight, we already had about half (mostly the more recently As you may already know, the Library has a small produced films). To date, we’ve been able to obtain collection of films (video tapes) whose plots revolve all but three of the remaining films (Boomerang, around legal themes. The films primarily serve two Career Woman and The Story on Page One). Listed purposes: 1) to provide students with a source of below are the remaining twenty-five films and their entertainment when they are not studying, and 2) to call numbers. If you’d like to view them, ask at the provide viewers with a taste of how the legal system Library Circulation Desk Brief descriptions of the is, and has been, portrayed in popular culture. film plots can be found in the online catalog and a complete list of all the Library’s films can be found This summer I happened to catch a documentary on the cable channel AMC (American Movie Classics) §©¨ § called Hollywood Goes to Court (PN 1995.9 .T75 ¢¡¤£¦¥ H65 1999). The film attempts to depict, via clips ¦ ! " from movies, “how Hollywood courtroom dramas # $&% ' (*)+ % , " have reflected American society's view of the justice #.- /¦- 0 - 1 2 - 4 *3.' ¤5 system.” Narrated by former LA Law (PN1997 L2 ) 6 1 1 - 87 9, ¤5 1988) star Harry Hamlin, the film also includes ' - 1 2 0 0 ( ; &<& = > interviews with several prominent Hollywood : 0 - ?& @BA© (*)+ ' C > attorneys (Johnnie Cochran, Gloria Allred, Barry Reed, etc.). After watching the film I contacted Res Ipsa Loquitur D in a notebook at the Circulation Desk. comprehensive collection is not currently available. Intolerance (1916) - PN 1997 .I5173 1990 Disorder in the Court (1936) - PN 1997 .H38 1993 2. Supreme Court Web Site (including opinions Little Miss Broadway (1938) - PN 1997 .L58986 1995 and briefs)--There are 10 unofficial web sites Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - PN 1997 .Y678 1988 which publish various subsets of opinions, The Ox Bow Incident (1942) - PN 1997 .O92 1990 updated with varying frequency, but no Roxie Hart (1942) - PN 1997 .R775 1995 official source of information from the Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - PN 1997 .L3835 1994 highest court in the land. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - PN 1997 .M575 1947 Twelve Angry Men (1947 and the 1998 HBO 3. Full Text of all Congressional Hearings--In version) - PN 1997 .T93 the last year or two, some congressional The Caine Mutiny (1954) - PN 1997 .M575 1947 committees have begun to post witness I Want to Live (1958) - PN 1997 .I176 1997 statements online, however, without Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - PN 1997 .A62 consistency or a concerted effort of all Compulsion (1959) - PN 1997 .C65 1995 committees. Inherit the Wind (1960) - PN 1997 .I53 To Kill a Mocking Bird (1962) - PN 1997 .T72 1987 4. Circuit Court Web Sites--Only five of the Planet of the Apes (1967) - PN 1997 .P52425 1998 twelve Circuit Courts of Appeals have web Paper Chase (1973) - PN 1997 .P36 1987 sites providing access to opinions at no cost. And Justice for All (1975) - PN 1997 .A65 1989 Several law schools have tried to fill the gap, The Verdict (1982) - PN 1997 .V47 1982 but if five circuits can do it why can’t the Class Action (1991) - PN 1997 .C42 1991 rest? A Few Good Men (1992) - PN 1997 .F48 1993 My Cousin Vinny (1992) - PN 1997 .M9 1992 Marianne Mason, The Pelican Brief (1993) - PN 1997 .P445 1994 Documents Librarian The People vs. Larry Flint (1996) - PN 1997 .P4565 1997 Rainmaker (1997) - PN 1997 .R1565 1998 ARE YOU HAVING PROBLEMS IN THE COMPUTER LABS? 10 MOST WANTED We have received a few complaints about the (O.K., 4 MOST WANTED) performance of the computers in the Computer Labs. In order to better identify what kinds of things are The Center of Democracy and Technology asked the happening (i.e. computers locking up), we need your public to identify the most important types of help. We are putting problem tracking forms in each government information that should be available on lab that we would like you to fill out if you have a the Internet. Here is a partial list of those most problem with a computer or a particular application. frequently requested. You’ll have to visit the CDT Please take a few minutes to fill out a form if you Web site for the complete list at have trouble while using one of the computers in the <http://www.cdt.org/righttoknow/10mostwanted/> labs. The only way we can identify and correct the problem is if we know specifically what is 1. Congressional Research Service (CRS) happening. If you have any questions, please speak Reports–This branch of the Library of to Dave Lankford in the Computer Center. By the Congress produces reports on public policy way, the email stations in the reserve area will be issues at taxpayer expense. These reports are replaced soon! available to our legislators, yet are only partially accessible to the public. Although Linda Fariss, selected reports have been posted online by Associate Director some members of Congress, a Volume 10, Number 5 E CIVIL RIGHTS QUIZ 6. Who is generally considered the mother of the civil rights movement? As you all know, February is Black History Month. To a. Harriet Tubman commemorate the occasion, we have compiled a quiz you can b. Susan B. Anthony take to test your knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. c. Rosa Parks Answers appear at the end. 7. Which of the following propelled Martin Luther King, 1. Which former slave and noted abolitionist edited and Jr. to national prominence as a lead of the civil rights published The North Star, an abolitionist newspaper? movement? a. Phillis Wheatley a. He led the boycott in Montgomery, Alabama b. Benjamin Banneker against the segregated city bus lines. c. Frederick Douglass b. He organized the massive March on Washington at which he have his famous “I 2. The 15th Amendment, which granted African- Have a Dream” speech. Americans the right to vote, was passed on which c. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for date? his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. a. February 3, 1870 8. On June 11, 1963, President Kennedy ordered the b. July 14, 1889 National Guard to ensure the enrollment of two c. November 19, 1910 African American students, Vivian Moore and James Hood, at which university? 3. Which civil rights activist gained notoriety in the late nineteenth century for her scathing editorials a. University of Mississippi denouncing racial injustice? b. University of Georgi Georgia c. University of Alabama a. Sojourner Truth b. Zora Neale Hurston 9. What key event in the civil rights movement happened c. Ida B. Wells in 1964? 4. Noted African-American intellectual and civil rights a. Thurgood Marshall became the first African- activist W.E.B. DuBois was a founding member of American to be appointed to the U.S. which organization in 1910? Supreme Court. b. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. a. NAACP c. The Black Panther Party was formed. b. National Negro Business League c. Southern Christian Leadership Conference 10. The National Rainbow Coalition, a political organization uniting various minority groups, was 5. Which landmark Supreme Court case represented an formed in 1986 by which political leader? important victory for the civil rights movement in 1954? a. General Colin Powell b. Louis Farrakhan a. Plessy vs. Ferguson c. Rev. Jesse Jackson b. Dred Scott vs. Sandford c. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Answers: 1-C; 2-A; 3-C; 4-A; 5-C; 6-C; 7-A; 8-C; 9-B; 10-C. Nonie Watt, Head of Technical Services F GH*I J K KH L M N O PRQ¤O S Suggestion: The policy of making the audiotapes only available for 4 hours. This will lead to people violating copyright laws by dubbing for home use.