This week, in continued observance of National Adoption Month and National Native American Heritage Month, the Harris County Hainsworth Law Library is highlighting a key resource from our LexisNexis Digital eBook Collection designed to support legal professionals working with Native American children and their families: The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children (Third Edition). Now fully revised (2018) and updated, this one-of-a-kind guide remains an essential reference for attorneys, judges, social workers, counselors, and others whose work intersects with child welfare and adoption law.

November marks National Adoption Month, a time to raise awareness about the importance of adoption and to recognize the families and professionals who support children in need of permanent homes. To honor this observance, the Harris County Hainsworth Law Library is highlighting a valuable resource from our print collection designed, Contested Adoptions, to support attorneys working in this highly sensitive and procedurally complex area of law.

In Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, the most historic and perhaps significant trial of the twentieth century began. As Justice Jackson, Chief Prosecutor for the United States spoke, 21 men, leading figures and officers in the Nazi regime accused of atrocities that the world had never experienced, sat in the prisoners’ dock, stone-faced, listening through headphones that relayed the words into their own tongue. For the next 11 months, prosecutors would methodically reveal to the court (and the world) the heinous crimes that these men perpetrated and permitted in the years leading up to and during World War II.

Wouldn’t that be something? Unfortunately, this headline-worthy development is just that—a rumor. And today is National Start a Rumor Day. In observance of this quirky national day, we’re exploring the truth of the justice gap, not the rumor, with the following facts below.

Happy Veterans Day! We at the Harris County Law Library honor all those who served and reaffirm our commitment to connecting veterans with helpful legal and community resources.