Day: February 15, 2012

Create Graphs of Word Usage in Supreme Court Opinions with Legal Language Explorer

By saltmeyer Posted on February 15, 2012 Posted in Free Web Research

The Legal Language Explorer allows you to create graphs showing the number of U.S. Supreme Court cases which used a certain word or phrase over time. You can specify a time period between 1791 and 2005. I created a graph …

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This Just In: Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

By mlhale Posted on February 15, 2012 Posted in This Just In - New Books

On this day thirty-two years ago, Lillian Hellman filed a libel lawsuit against Mary McCarthy for $2.2 million in damages. The two women were known for having an uncongenial relationship because of their disparate views on communism. Hellman was harshly …

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