You can now receive Oklahoma appellate court opinions and Oklahoma Attorney General opinions via RSS newsfeeds at no charge. I believe Oklahoma is the third state to do this, after West Virginia and Louisiana. You may get more information and…
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Author: Jim Calloway
RSS Made Easy
There are lots of blawgs that discuss blawging and RSS feeds and such. I decided I wouldn’t do too much of that. I will just say that I believe RSS feeds are changing the way we get our “hot” information…
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Author: Jim Calloway
RSS and Bar Association Services
This week is the ABA Midyear meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. I will be attending to, among other things, participate in the National Association of Bar Executives meetings. It’s a great place to get ideas to better serve our…
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Author: Jim Calloway
RSS and Government Agencies
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland decided to use a blog as an easy way to post press releases to the Web and do an RSS newsfeed at the same time. So if you did a lot of federal criminal…
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Author: Jim Calloway
Tools for Podcasting, Blogging and RSS
I stumbled across Mashable last night looking for something. Mashable is a news blog about online social networking trends. (How’s that for focused content?) The site does have some really nice resource collections and one article that I wanted to…
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In re Marriage of T.C. and D.C.
(California Court of Appeal) – Reversed and remanded a spousal support order, in a case where a wife sought to reduce her support payments to her former husband. Held that the trial court failed to consider the parties’ reasonable expectations as expressed in their dissolution agreement.
In re Cody R.
(California Court of Appeal) – Dismissed a mother’s appeal from an order terminating parental rights to her son. Also denied her petition for writ of habeas corpus, concluding that a habeas petition may be filed in dependency cases only in limited circumstances not present here.
Marriage of Martindale and Ochoa
(California Court of Appeal) – Affirmed the denial of a request to renew a three-year domestic violence prevention restraining order. A woman had obtained the restraining order against her former husband.
W.M. v. V.A.
(California Court of Appeal) – Held that a California superior court had jurisdiction over a child custody proceeding, in a case raising questions under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act. The mother had previously initiated a child custody proceeding in her home country of Belarus.
In re Marriage of Vaughn
(California Court of Appeal) – In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case, held that when the nature of a debt is such that its discharge will directly and adversely impact the finances of the debtor’s spouse or former spouse, it is nondischargeable in bankruptcy, even if it is not directly payable to the spouse. Affirmed the district court.