Year: 2004

For the second time, postings on the web site maintained by the Eagle County, Colorado court hearing the rape case against Kobe Bryant have included papers which mistakenly listed the name of the alleged victim. …

Although its not new, I recently learned about Ask the White House, a live online discussion forum between citizens and members of the Bush administration. Upcoming guests are announced on the website and transcripts of …

There has been a lot of buzz on some of the blogs I read about the fact that although Google News indexes lots of news sources, only a few consistently rise to the top on …

2nd Update: This article is now available electronically from the Wisconsin Law Journal. The link appears in the text below. ———————— Update: I just received a call from David Ziemer, News Editor at the Wisconsin …

The IRS has launched a new service called IRS Guidewire to make technical guidance available via e-mail to tax professionals. Subscribers will receive notification of and links to IRS announcements, notices, revenue procedures and revenue …

It appears that the tool that we are using to send email updates of WisBlawg entries is not working properly. Please bear with me until I am able to resolve the problem. Sorry for the …

Here’s a story from MSNBC entitled, Courtsmart Malfunction May Affect Conviction about an individual requesting a new trial after it was discovered that the court’s recording system (which takes the place of human stenographers) malfunctioned …

Here’s an interesting story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette entitled, Court Web Site Easy Pickings for ID Thieves, about the inclusion of sensitive personal data in publicly available court documents available on the Internet. Here’s a …

USPTO has just introduced a new database called PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval) which tracks the status of a public patent application. Here’s a blurb from the USPTO’s press release: For the first time, anyone …

This afternoon I was tickled to receive a message from Wisconsin Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Daniel P. Anderson, who let me know that he had just discovered WisBlawg and that he will be a …