The laws of Maryland are available on the web. The URL is
http://mlis.state.md.us/cgi-win/web_statutes.exe
Elliot Chabot
H2-641 Ford House Office Building
House Information Resources
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515-6165
>-----Original Message-----
>From: richard_pravata@bakerbotts.com [SMTP:richard_pravata@bakerbotts.com]
>Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 10:46 AM
>To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu; lorr@willamette.edu
>Subject: Re: Perils of Internet "Legal Research" - the continuing sag
>
>
> Unfortunately this is only an example of poor legal research and not
> the perils of the Internet. Goldberg's associate only did the
> research in federal law and didn't look at state law.
>
> Incompetent research is incompetent research in any medium.
>
> Another point is that neither Maryland nor D.C. has their statutes on
> the web, so they couldn't have done this research on the Internet
> anyway. This illustrates what I have seen happening since everyone is
> getting desktop access to the Interenet. Whatever resource seems more
> convienent is the one that people use, no matter if it is complete or
> correct. A subtler point and probably more difficult to illustrate to
> people in an Internet orientation class.
>
> Richard Pravata
> Reference librarian
> Baker & Botts
>
> these opinions are mine
>
>
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> _________________________________
> Subject: Perils of Internet "Legal Research" - the continuing saga
> Author: Laura Orr <lorr@willamette.edu> at internet
> Date: 11/13/98 8:42 AM
>
>
> A wire story yesterday on the Linda Trip grand jury proceedings
> reported that Lucianne Goldberg when asked by Ms. Trip if recording
> the calls with Ms. Lewinski would be "appropriate" replied, "she asked
> an associate to research the matter on the Internet, then incorrectly
> told Mrs. Tripp that the recording was legal."
>
> (from http://www.foxnews.com/nav/wires_news.sml, 5:25 p.m., Nov 12,
> 1998)
>
> Laura
>
> Laura Orr
> Visiting Reference Librarian
> Willamette Law Library
> Salem, Oregon
>
>
>
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