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San Francisco Law Library
2008 Spring Holiday Schedule Check out our new Self Help Web Page! We hope that it will help you locate online self help resources, to help you help yourself in legal matters! NEW web links are posted frequently, and can be found here: Tax Season is here again! Will you file on time? Will you save as much money as you are entitled to? Taxes are due on Tuesday April 15, 2008! Visit the IRS site for all of their online federal tax forms and publications; a new IRS site, 1040 Central, for a page devoted to tax filing for individuals; or the California Franchise Tax Board web page, for California income tax information. Also, for California tax forms, the Law Library will have the California Package X Tax Form Catalogue available in looseleaf format in the library, for quick and easy copying of California tax forms. Please with a librarian regarding the availablity of this resource. You may qualifiy for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and could be eligible for up to $4700 in Federal tax credits from the Internal Revenue Service! For more information, visit the Earn It! Keep It ! Save It! website.This program is a bay area campaign to offer free tax help to those who earned less than $42,000 in 2007. This United Way program, which is free, easy and confidential, provides free tax preparation assistance to help local, hard-working families claim these credits and build financial security. Also, United States Citizenship is NOT necessary to participate in the program. This program also connects tax filers and others like you to financial education classes and opportunities to make the most of your tax refund. Classes are in a variety of languages and include everything from car buying assistance to budgeting to how to buy your first home. The San Francisco office can be reached by dialing 2-1-1.If you are calling from outside of San Francisco, please dial 1-800-358-8832. Lastly, there is a special program for San Francisco families known as the WORKING FAMILIES CREDIT, sponsored by H&R Block. This program offers, for eligible San Francisco families, a direct cash payment, based on a percentage of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) payment, subject to available funds. The four criteria that must be met are as follows: 1) you eaned less than $40,000 in 2007 2) you claim and qualify for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit 3) you are claiming at least one dependent child on your tax return (who is either under age 19 or under age 24 but a full time student or permanently and totally disabled) and 4) you live in San Francisco. For more information on this program, and a link to the application, please click here. FREE LEGAL HELP! Did you know that there are many places to receive FREE LEGAL HELP? The law library can point you in the right direction, and to the appropriate time and place.
DOCKET RESEARCH! We have a new web page, all about case documents! Please visit our new DOCKET RESEARCH page for details on the process of obtaining documents filed in cases in Federal courts, California courts, and local San Francisco County courts. NEW: 2007 Legislative Summary: Special edition of Court News by the Judicial Council of California. Summaries and index of the nearly 90 bills passed in 2007 California legislative sessions that affected the courts or are of general interest to the legal community. This is prepared and published by the Judicial Council of the California, Administrative Office of the Courts and the Office of Governmental Affairs. NEW:Active Court Related Legislation: current 2007-2008 session (from the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts): This web page categorizes all current legislation for California into 34 different court related topics, ranging from Appellate to Trial Court Funding. A handy portal for all court related current legislation, even if that legislation did not pass. NEW: Introducing HeinOnline! The law library now offers access to HeinOnline with full-text access to over 350 legal journals, selected "legal classics" textbooks, the Federal Register (from 1936 to present), treaties and agreements, US Attorney General opinions, US Presidential documents, US Federal Legislative History materials, and more. The contents are searchable via full text or phrase searching, or by author/title. Additionally, these image-based databases allow you to browse each volume, and to see the clickable table of contents for each. All pages look as they originally appeared in hardcopy, including all charts, graphs and photographs. HeinOnline may be accessed in the library only. Please ask a librarian for more information; we will be happy to get you started on your research! California Jury Instructions Resource Center: This site, hosted by the Judicial Council of California, provides access for the plain English language civil and criminal jury instructions. These jury instructions accurately convey the law using language that is understandable to jurors. There are separate links, one each for Civil and for Criminal: each link takes you to a resource center for the jury instructions, which in addition to the jury instrucitons also contains such resources as correlation tables, a user's guide, applicable rules of court and contact information. Here is a great new resource - online legal glossaries! This website, from the Sacramento County Superior Court, has a legal glossary available in English, and 11 other glossaries that translate the English terms into other languages. Check out this invaluable new resource! Perhaps you would like to go directly to the .PDF glossary of your choice? We are now providing direct access to the glossaries:
The California Roster is now published online. This resource contains extensive listings for California government, with categories including Constitutional Officers (and complete history of those offiicers); the Senate and Assembly; the Judicial Branch; State Agencies, Departments, Boards and Commissions; County Officials; Incorporated City and Town Officials; Unicorporated Areas; California US Government; and Roster of the United States. This resource is updated frequently (last update, Feb. 2007), and it can be reached here. Special notice for students and anyone interested in legal research:We have a new legal research guide, devoted to online investigation and legal research, titled What Every Law Clerk Should Know. The guide was written by A.T. Kippes, Esq., an attorney and legal resource instructor, who generously made this invaluable resource available to our library users. You may find this guide by clicking HERE: What do YOU think of the San Francisco Law Library? Please click here to be taken to our online survey page. We appreciate any and all participation, as this helps us to provide the best possible services to meet our patrons' needs. We are featuring a new self help web page, LawHelpCalifornia. This page organizes many areas of legal information in an easy to use format, and is oriented towards low- and middle-income individuals and their advocates. The site also focuses on free and low cost legal service programs, and has links to court agencies throughout the state. California Public Law Libraries: This new website, from the Council of California County Law Librarians, collects an expansive amount of online legal resources, and presents it in an accessible and easy to navigate format. Among the attributes of this site are: a link to the AskNow live online virtual reference program, an excellent self help page (which can be navigated in English, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, German, French, Japanese, Korean and Chinese!), a mini research class, extensive legal links, and a way to locate your nearest county law library.The Law Library now also offers access to forms from all US states, organized by practice area! This is a link to the Bar Association of San Francisco's Legal Forms Center with over 75,000 FREE legal forms and documents! The Law Library now offers the California Judicial Council Forms and the San Francisco Local Court Forms on the public terminals via our Electronic Resources page. See our What's New page for more details. NEW! The Judicial Council of California has made available a popular publication for kids, entitled "What's Happening in Court" in both English and, now, en Espanol! Click on either English or Spanish to go to the page.
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