Westlaw rocks, Westlaw sucks

Sat Jul 22 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

elections

Man, I've just started to get the hand of Westlaw (a vast database of legal cases, information and articles). It has almost everything. However, little did I know that there is a monthly allotment of time spent on the site. I had no idea until I ran up against my monthly allotment. Now, I have to wait until the first of the next month for my quota to be reset! This is especially a bummer because I was just about to print out and read the following law review article:

Pencils within Reach and a Walkman or Two: Making the Secret Ballot Available to Voters Who Are Blind or Have Other Disabilities, 4 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 87 (1999)

Drat! If anyone out there is reading this and has access to Westlaw, I'd appreciate a PDF of this material.

Crap. I have a talk to prepare and research to do and this new research tool, Westlaw, for doing some of it is no longer available to me because of some silly usage quota that is not made apparent to the users of Westlaw. Lawyers and legal types have a lot to learn about usability.

[UPDATE 2006-07-22T16:26:17] Some kind soul sent me a copy from Lexis... I swear I searched that bastard up and down and didn't find it there. Oh well.