WebLesson 13-01

Adding Cases to the MuniLaw Cases List

Phase 1

  1. Open the email from SLL containing one or more Slip Opinions.
  2. Click on the hyperlink for the Slip Opinion you wish to post on the MMLA “Cases” page to open that particular case.
  3. Copy to clipboard the TITLE of the case and the whole box table containing the docket, dates, judge(s), county, and keywords, illustratively as follows. But be sure to get the whole table, including all lines of the box:

JAMES McLAUGHLIN vs. CITY OF LOWELL
DOCKET / No. 11-P-2072
Dates: / February 7, 2013 - July 25, 2013
Present / Cypher, Kantrowitz, & Fecteau, JJ.
County / Middlesex
KEYWORDS / Fire Fighter, Retirement, Incapacity. Municipal Corporations, Fire department, Retirement board. Public Employment, Accidental disability retirement, Reinstatement of personnel. Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission. Division of Administrative Law Appeals. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board. Administrative Law, Judicial review. Collateral Estoppel. Practice, Civil, Summary judgment, Judgment notwithstanding verdict. Employment, Discrimination. Anti-Discrimination Law, Employment, Handicap.
  1. Next, log on to the website as Administrator.
  2. Go to the front end of the website (“Visit Site”); click on the “Members Area” tab, and then click on the “MuniLaw Cases” tab. This will open up the pages displaying all of the cases members will view.
  3. Go to the very bottom of this page, and click on “Edit”
  4. Now “paste” what you copied to clipboard at the top of the cases list, just above the last posted case, and just below the MONTH and YEAR line.
  5. Finally, click “Update” and this will make what you posted viewable on the front end. However, the title is a hyperlink to the case on the SLL server, which we know will be “live” for only a matter of months. So now we have to modify the TITLE so that it is linked to a copy of the Slip Opinion which we will now upload to the Media Library in Phase 2.

Phase 2

  1. Open the Slip Opinion from SLL; but this time instead of copying the TITLE and BOX, you:
  2. Click on the link that says: “Click Here for Printer Friendly Format”; then
  3. press “Ctr-A” (Control +A), which will “block” the entire text; and then
  4. press “Ctr-C” (Control+C), which will copy all of the text to clipboard.
  5. Next, open up a “blank” MSWord document, and “paste”, or “Ctr-V”, what you copied to clipboard. The MSWord document will now have the full text of the decision in Printer Friendly Format that you copied from clipboard; however, Word put double line spaces between paragraphs, so now we will now reduce this open space to single-line spaces. Here’s how:
  6. C”tr-A” to “block” all text, and then go to the top of the screen to “Change Styles” and press the style for “No Spaces.” This will change the blocked text from double-line spaces to single-line spaces.
  7. Finally, save the final document to your hard drive (or flash drive) for use later, being sure to use the same file name of the case used by SLL. (Best way here to is to copy and paste the name of the case from your document)

Phase 3

  1. Now we return to the back end and “edit” the MuniLaw Cases page (as above described) in order to convert the TITLE of the case from being a hyperlink to the SLL server into a hyperlink to the document which you just created on your hard drive (or flash drive), and which you will now upload to the Media Library as follows.
  2. Highlight (block) the full TITLE of the case (which is at the moment a hyperlink to SLL).
  3. Click on the “Add Media” button on the upper left.
  4. Then click on “Upload Files”
  5. Then click on the “Select Files” box in the middle of the page.
  6. Now navigate to your hard drive (or flash drive), select and “Open” the file you just saved. This will upload that file to the Media Library, and it should be “checked” once the upload is complete.
  7. Then click on the “Insert into Page” button at lower right. This will have the effect of converting the hyperlinked TITLE to a hyperlink to the copy of the case in our Media Library. Residing there, it will “live” forever, rather than “perish” when SLL deactivates the hyperlink to its server.
  8. You conclude by “Update”, and you are done.

Rev . 8/17/13