This Week in the Law Library ... November 3, 2025

This week in the Law Library we're helping with Final Memo research, teaching AI and the Law, and teaching Advanced Legal Research Civil Litigation. We're also highlighting election law resources in honor of Tuesday's elections and previewing US Supreme Court oral arguments.

Monday, November 3, 2025

Lawyering I, Cohort 4

• 9:00am - 10:25am
• Guided Final Memo Research
• Susan Boland, Associate Director

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

AI & the Law

• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Lawyering I, Cohort 4

• 9:00am - 10:25am
• Researching Statutes
• Susan Boland, Associate Director

Advanced Legal Research Civil Litigation

• 3:05pm - 4:05pm
• Laura Dixon-Caldwell​, Instructional & Reference Services Librarian​

Thursday, November 6, 2025

AI & the Law

• 10:40am - 12:05pm
• Profs. Laura Dixon-Caldwell, Shannon Kemen, Ashley Russell, and Michael Whiteman

Election day is Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Have you voted yet? If not, please vote tomorrow! Elections matter and so does your vote. Need voter information? You can find links to resources in our Election Law Guide or check out the resources below:

MyOhioVote.com

State of Ohio voting information site. Register to vote, change your address, find polling locations, see ballots, etc.

Kentucky State Board of Elections

The official website for Kentucky elections and voting, you can use this site to register to vote, see the election schedule and find your polling location.

State of Indiana Voting Website

The official website for Indiana elections and voting, you can use this site to register to vote, see the election schedule and find your polling location.

In honor of election day, our featured resources will focus on election law.

• Election Law in a Nutshell
  • Available via the West Academic Study Aid subscription, this Nutshell provides a succinct and thorough description of the law governing elections, the right to vote, and the political process in the United States. The topics addressed include “one person, one vote,” gerrymandering, minority voting rights, ballot access, voter identification, recounts, direct democracy, and campaign finance. The Nutshell examines U.S. constitutional law in these areas, as well as the Voting Rights Act, Federal Election Campaign Act, and other essential statutes. It covers cases decided through the 2022-23 Supreme Court term, including Allen v. Milligan (on the Voting Rights Act) and Moore v. Harper (on the independent state legislature theory).
• Examples & Explanations: Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law
  • Available via the Aspen Learning Library study aid subscription, this text covers statutory interpretation, lobbying, bribery, redistricting, campaign finance law, and voting rights. New to the 2nd Edition: coverage through the Supreme Court's June 2019 decisions, including partisan gerrymandering, court deference to agency interpretations, and the litigation over a citizenship question on the 2020 census; updated discussion of textualist methods of statutory interpretation following the death of Justice Scalia and the arrival of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh; consideration of how increased political polarization shapes the legislative process and judicial review of legislation; and updated material on campaign finance and voting rights.
• Understanding Election Law and Voting Rights
  • Available via the LexisNexis Digital Library study aid subscription, this study aid explains election-law doctrine while also introducing the theoretical concerns that underlie the debates. Readers will come away from Understanding Election Law and Voting Rights knowing not only the holdings of cases and the meanings of important statutes, such as the Voting Rights Act, but they will also understand the contending views of free speech, equality, judicial authority, and political fairness that are present throughout the field. It takes readers through the electoral process, beginning with the right to vote and continuing through the election itself. Along the way, the authors provide thorough explanations of manifold topics, including Congress's power to protect voting rights, the use of race in districting, political gerrymandering, political parties' rights, the place of third parties, free speech and the First Amendment rights to participate in campaigns and run for office, campaign-finance regulation, vote-counting, and the role of courts in adjudicating disputes about political power and challenges to election "irregularities."

• CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection
  • This database provides reference narratives and documents on elections, parties, voter behavior, and campaigns. It allows users to extract election results by characteristics such as: candidate, office, locality, and race type over time. Access U.S. election results across states with great historical depth and accuracy.

• Election Law Guide
  • This guide is intended as a starting point for research in the law of elections.

• Principles of the Law, Election Administration: Non-Precinct Voting and Resolution of Ballot-Counting Disputes
  • Available on HeinOnline and in print at Law Stacks KF 4886 .P752 2019, this work is focused on the principles, rules, and procedures applicable to recounts and ballot disputes, as well as the rules for "non-precinct" voting-the casting of ballots by means other than traditional polling places on election day.

• Breaking the Deadlock
  • Aaron Tang of UC Davis School of Law guides a panel of thought leaders through complex, ethical dilemmas based on real-life scenarios. The special encourages civil dialogue and critical thinking in an era dominated by polarizing debates.

• United States Election Assistance Commission
  • The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent, bipartisan commission whose mission is to help election officials improve the administration of elections and help Americans participate in the voting process.   

US Supreme Court by Jarek Tuszyński CC-BY-SA-3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

From SCOTUS Blog:

Monday, November 3, 2025

• Rico v. United States - whether the fugitive-tolling doctrine applies in the context of supervised release.
• Hencely v. Fluor Corp. - whether Boyle v. United Techs Corp. should be extended to allow federal interests emanating from the Federal Tort Claims Act’s combatant-activities exception to preempt state tort claims against a government contractor for conduct that breached its contract and violated military orders.

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

• Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited v. Burton - whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction.
• Hain Celestial Grp. Inc. v. Palmquist - whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by dismissing a non-diverse party at the time of removal.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

• Learning Res. Inc. v. Trump (Tariffs) - whether the International Emergency Economic Powers Act authorizes the president to impose tariffs.

Posted Nov. 3, 2025 by Susan Boland

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