Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From GPO’s Administrative Notes: GPO is working with the library community on a national digitization plan with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications held in libraries participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The objective is a digital collection available, in the public domain, for permanent public …
The National Center for State Courts has a collection of articles in its report, Future Trends in State Courts 2004. Edison Ellenberger of The E-LawLibrary Weblog offers a nice summary of the highlights: +Web Logs: Increasing Courts’ Ability to Quickly Communicate with Constituents, by Walter Latham. The author discusses some court blogs and concludes that …
If you’ve ever had to do one, you know that compiling a legislative history is no picnic. But LexisNexis has made things a little easier with their new Legislative Histories Research Tasks Page. What makes this so nice is that it gathers together on one page search boxes for commonly used legislative history resources. . …
Starting today, consumers in some states will become eligible for a free annual credit reports under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Wisconsinites, however, won’t be eligible until March 1, 2005. According to a release from the FTC: FACTA, which was enacted on December 4, 2003, …
Babelplex is a new bilingual search engine which searches the Web in two languages at once. Search results are displayed side by side. A total of eleven languages are available in Babelplex. To search, simply type in a few keywords and select a language pair (the language of your query and the language you want …
The Dane County Legal Resource Center just released DCLRC Blawg. According to DCLRC Librarian, Paula Seeger, “there’s lots of local legal and court information that doesn’t make it into our regular newsletter. By checking our blog, you’ll be able to keep up to date with the latest announcements and information on the local legal and …