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A huge thank you to all of our Veterans out there! We appreciate your service to our country!

In honor of Veteran's Day, here are a bunch of interesting resources for your perusal:

• The Law Library of Congress' blog, In Custodia Legis, discusses the Veterans History Project.
• Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute, easily provides the U.S. Code sections about Holidays and Time and Occasions for Display of the Flag.
• Veterans should check out the free meals at numerous locations today, such as Applebee's, as well as other deals (from MSN).
• Today ANYONE can get in free to all of the National Parks in the United States! Grand Canyon anyone?
• Read about the History of Veterans Day (from the Center of Military History, US Army)
• And naturally, Wikipedia discusses Veterans Day pretty concisely.

Or if you're more visual... here's a short video about the history of Veterans Day from History.com:

Enjoy your day!

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One final SRU Workshop for this semester... join us on Wednesday, November 10th at 4pm in the computer lab to learn all about Free Online Legal Sources!

RSVP here. Questions? Call 602-682-6898 or email.

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Overwhelmed by the information you find online while researching? Want to learn how to organize your research using your web browser?

Join us this Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 at 4:00pm in Law Library computer lab for, SRU Workshop: FireFox Legal Add-ons!

This SRU workshop, geared towards all students as well as alumni, will help you learn about free legal add-ons to enhance your Mozilla FireFox web browser and help improve your research.

What is an add-on?

Here is the main add-on site from FireFox, but also check out this list of legal add-ons from Mozilla.

To RSVP, visit the Law Library calendar.

Questions? Call (602) 682-6898 or email.

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NPR recently interviewed retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens who for the first time in 35 years was not on the bench on Monday, as the Supreme Court opened it's new term.

Several articles discuss the Court's first day: USA Today covers Monday's events as well as the Associated Press. The Wall Street Journal has musings about newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. You can also check out SCOTUSblog which covers the arguments of the Supreme Court with more analysis.

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This just in... the Supreme Court announced today that they will soon be providing audio recordings of all oral arguments freely on their website. You will be able to download the recordings or simply listen through the court's website. This will begin with the October Term 2010, with audio recordings being available at the end of each argument week. The first arguments are heard on the first Monday in October, which for this year will be October 4th.

Read more here about how oral arguments are heard in the Supreme Court. View the Court's calendar of days they will hear arguments. Also, a Yahoo article explains about broadcasters requesting same-day release recordings in the past, which may provide some reasoning as to why the Supreme Court will be providing the recordings now.

If you're curious, you can currently hear audio recordings from the Supreme Court provided by the website Oyez.org. They have been providing audio from the Supreme Court since around 1993.