Reigning Supreme: All About the Highest Court in the United States

Exploring HeinOnline, Fastcase, History of Supreme Court Nominations, Law Journal Library, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases, U.S. Supreme Court, World Constitutions Illustrated
Lauren Mattiuzzo

The Supreme Court of the United States, otherwise known as SCOTUS, is the highest tribunal in the nation for all cases and controversies arising under the Constitution. It marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Although SCOTUS receives approximately 7,000-8,000 petitions each term, the justices grant and hear oral arguments for about 80 cases annually. Let’s take a closer look at SCOTUS and see what unique resources you can find in HeinOnline.

Who Makes Up SCOTUS

The Supreme Court was established by Article III of the Constitution…

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What’s New In HeinOnline: June Content Release

Content News, Content Release, HeinOnline Updates, What's New
Lauren Mattiuzzo

Summer has officially arrived, and HeinOnline is bringing the heat with our newest content release. We’ve released more than 1.5 million pages of new and exciting content in June. Keep reading to learn about our newest databases and see what we’ve been up to this past month.

JUNE CONTENT RELEASE SUMMARY

Updated databases: 85

New titles: 1,596

New volumes: 3,104

New pages added last month: 1,564,997

Total pages in HeinOnline: 186,125,577

Highlights of the Past Month

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Medicine and Law: FREE COVID-19 Themed Issue Now Available

Current Events, Law Journal Library, Medicine
Lauren Mattiuzzo

Medicine and Law

The Official Journal of the World Association for Medical Law

Volume 39, Issue No. 2

We are pleased to offer a special COVID-19 issue of Medicine and Law FREE to our HeinOnline community. The Hein Company and the World Association for Medical Law recognize that this unprecedented crisis has greatly affected everyone, and we are compelled to provide credible information and resources.

About the Issue: The COVID-19 Pandemic

The cancellation of the 2020 World Congress on Medical Law resulted in the June issue of Medicine and Law becoming a time capsule which contemporaneously reviewed the first six months of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic…

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New Journals Added to HeinOnline This Month!

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Tara Kibler

With the June content release, we added 18 new journals, all of which are active serials. Fifteen are new Criminal Justice journals from SAGE Publications, which have now not only been added to the Law Journal Library, but will also be included within our newly revamped Criminal Justice & Criminology collection.

Join us as we take a closer look at each of the new titles and the type of content they cover.

AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY

Full Text: Vols. 1-49 (1968-2016)
Indexed: Vols. 1-53#1 (1968-2019)

SAGE Publications

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology is one of the world’s longest-running criminology journals…

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Secrets of the Serial Set: The Disability Rights Movement

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Tara Kibler

This month, HeinOnline continues its Secrets of the Serial Set series with an investigation of individuals with disabilities throughout American history.

Secrets of the Serial Set is an exciting and informative monthly blog series from HeinOnline dedicated to unveiling the wealth of American history found in the United States Congressional Serial Set.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is considered an essential publication for studying American history. Spanning more than two centuries with more than 17,000 bound volumes, the records in this series include House and Senate documents, House and Senate reports, and much more…

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Proud to Be Born This Way: A Look Back at the Road to Pride and LGBTQ Rights

Current Events, Exploring HeinOnline, History of Supreme Court Nominations, Law Journal Library, LGBTQ, Statutes at Large, U.S. Supreme Court, World Constitutions Illustrated
Lauren Mattiuzzo

This June marks a special month for the LGBTQ community. Not only is it Pride month, but it’s also the 50th anniversary of annual LGBTQ and Pride traditions. The very first Pride march took place on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising in New York City on June 28, 1970. More than 500 Pride-related events have been canceled this year due to the COVID pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped people from celebrating. The LGBTQ community has found ways to celebrate online, and others are marching in black lives matter protests to elevate black voices in solidarity for equal rights. Let’s take a closer look at this movement…

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A Fathers’ Day Investigation of the Fathers’ Rights Movement

Law, Law Journal Library, National Survey of State Laws, Session Laws, Subject Compilations of State Laws, World Treaty Library
Tara Kibler

Family law is an area of the legal field concerning matters relating to marriage and partnership, divorce, adoption, surrogacy, child protection from abuse and neglect, and other domestic issues. In the last century or so, the transformation of certain definitions (e.g. wife, marriage, gender) and the recognition of women’s rights have dramatically changed the practice. Over the past few decades, one group has made it their mission to reform family law and the family court system further—fathers. Join us as we use HeinOnline to investigate the history of family law and the relatively new fathers’ rights movement.

Before We Get Started

Don’t miss out! Make sure you have the databases we’ll be mentioning in this post…

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NEW DATABASE: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

American Enterprise Institute, Content News, HeinOnline Updates, What's New
Lauren Mattiuzzo

Nonpartisan, empirical policy analysis at your fingertips!

HeinOnline is pleased to announce our new database, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)! This database includes publications from the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism, committed to strengthening the free enterprise system in America. Users have access to nearly 1,500 titles covering 20 different policy areas including research fueled by rigorous, data-driven and broad-ranging evidence. It is included at no additional charge for HeinOnline Academic, HeinOnline Scholastic, and U.S. Academic Core+ subscribers.

About American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) was founded in 1938 for the purpose of “bringing about a greater public knowledge and understanding of the social and economic advantages accruing to the American people through the maintenance of the system of free…

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I Saw A Tiger … in My Neighbor’s Backyard

Animal Law, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Culture & Law, Exploring HeinOnline, Fastcase, Federal Register, Popular Culture, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Congressional Documents
Stephanie Ruesch

In the early days of quarantine, nearly a hundred years ago, all the way back at the end of March, one thing united us all. No, not the sewing struggle to make our own masks or collective worrying over when we would ever see a roll of Charmin in the wild again. It was Tiger King. The true crime-character study-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it docuseries had more than 34 million views in the U.S. within its first 10 days on Netflix, and was an inescapable recommendation, topic of discussion, and fodder for many quality memes.

In case you somehow missed out, a brief synopsis: Tiger King chronicles the years-long feud between Oklahoma private zoo owner Joe Exotic (real name: Joseph Maldonado-Passage…

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NEW DATABASE: Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks

Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, HeinOnline Updates, What's New
Tara Kibler

New online database and print resource!

Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks

Edited by Douglas Lind
Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University

HeinOnline is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, the only comprehensive casebook index! The second edition is available both in print (covering 1870-2018) and as a new online database that covers from 1870 to current within the last year…

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