Legal Mandates & Free Markets: Health Care as a Case Study

On behalf of the Akron Law Federalist Society and the Akron Black Law Students Association (BLSA), we invite you to attend in a panel discussion on nationalizing health care on Thursday September 10, at 12:15. Our goal is to present a wide array of opinions and expertise on the topic.  Our panel includes:
 
Professor David Hyman, University of Illinois College of Law (http://www.law.illinois.edu/faculty/directory/DavidHyman).  Professor Hyman is considered to be one of the nation’s top health law scholars, and has published extensively on the topic of health care regulation. 
 
Dr. Lucinda Deason, University of Akron (http://gozips.uakron.edu/~deason/).  Dr. Deason is a professor in the Dept. of Public Administration and Urban Studies at Akron, and specializes in health care issues faced by the elderly.     
 
Dr. Lawrence Cima, John Carroll University (http://www.jcu.edu/voicesandsources/Profile.aspx?ProfessorID=c416bb68-4d85-48ff-9024-9bc9bfc3fd7a).  Dr. Cima is a Professor of Economics at John Carroll University, and specializes in economic justice and individual rights.   
Professor William Huhn, Akron School of Law (http://www.uakron.edu/law/lawfaculty/huhn.php).  Professor Huhn teaches Health Law, and has always been a great opponent for speakers the Federalist Society invites.   
 
Prof. Hyman and Dr. Cima, both libertarians, are generally opposed to nationalized health care.  Dr. Deason is in favor of it, and Professor Huhn lies somehwere in the middle.  As previously mentioned, our goal is to spark a spirited discussion on the subject, and educate the audience on the pros and cons of nationalizing our health care system.  Format wise, each panel member will get 10 minutes to present their views on the topic.  After all panelists have spoken, each will get a two minute rebuttal.  After this, we will open it up to questions from the audience.

Tips, Tricks and Hints for LexisNexis- Spell-check

Check Your Spelling before Searching

For those of us who rely heavily on spell-check in our daily lives, it is nice to know that you can also use a spell-checking feature before conducting a search on LexisNexis.  This function even provides spelling suggestions for the misspelled words!

Take the following steps to use the Check Spelling feature:

  • ●  Enter your Terms and Connectors or Natural Language search in the Enter Search Terms form.
    NOTE: You cannot use Check Spelling with the LexisNexis® Easy Search™ feature or in sources containing a Table of Contents.
  • ●  Click Check Spelling to highlight misspelled words and display up to three Spelling Suggestions per misspelled word.
  • ●  Select one of the Spelling Suggestions to replace the misspelled word.
  • ●  Click Search.

NOTE: Check Spelling only checks words that are four or more letters long .

Source: LexisNexis InfoPro
Questions?  Contact Lynn Lenart, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services.  330-972-6357, llenart@uakron.edu, Law Library, second floor, office 269. 

CALI Lesson Review- How to Brief a Case

For those students that feel they still need practice in briefing a case, there is a CALI lesson that teaches how to brief and gives examples.  Here is a description from the lesson itself.

“This is an exercise designed to introduce first-semester law students to the basic elements of a typical case “brief” and to teach them general methodology for writing their own briefs. The exercise consists of three parts: (1) an introduction to the purposes and uses of a case brief; (2) a detailed examination of each of the ten components of a typical case brief (with examples); and (3) two actual cases that students are asked to read and then to brief.”

Lesson Completion Time: 2 hours

How to find this lesson:  After logging into CALI, click on Legal Research.  The lessons are alphabetic at the next page.

Questions?  Contact Lynn Lenart, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services.  330-972-6357, llenart@uakron.edu, Law Library, second floor, office 269. 

Tips, Tricks and Hints for using Westlaw- Customizable Research interface

The new Customizable Westlaw now makes it especially easy to build and rearrange content and tools at many Westlaw tabbed pages.

  • Show All: Some of the database groups can be expanded to show a longer list of databases.    Click on SHOW ALL at the top of the database group box to extend the list.
  • Move tabbed pages, as well as the tools and content on tabbed pages: Do you use the Black’s Law Dictionary often?  Move it up to the top of the left tools column. There are no fancy steps to follow: Just drag databases, database groups, and tools from one place to another. You can even drag items from one Customizable Westlaw page to another. In addition, you can change the order of the tabs at the top of the page by dragging them.
  • Add, delete, rename, and edit items on tabbed pages: Customizable Westlaw makes it easy to add, delete, or modify a database or database group. It’s also easy to browse the contents of other tabbed pages or the Westlaw Directory and add databases to the page you are viewing.
  • Create a tabbed page from scratch: You can create (and name) a personal tabbed page that contains databases and database groups in any arrangement that works for you.
  • E-mail personal pages to colleagues effortlessly: An e-mail link is available so you can share your personal page with a colleague.
  • Create “sticky notes”: Write online notes and reminders to yourself in the course of your research.

If you have questions or need search assistance, call the West Reference Attorneys at 1-800-REF-ATTY (1-800-733-2889).

Source: West elert, July 2009.