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. Both the New York Times and the Rocky Mountain News picked up the story. From: yclipse

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 previous forums are archived. It appears that there is a forum going on right now (Tues morning, 9:00 am) To …

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 a daily basis. It seems that just ten news sources account for 66% of all the hits on the first …

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 Law Journal. He saw this post in WisBlawg and said that he would be willing to make this article available …

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 rulings as they are issued. See the IRS Press Release for more information. Source: TVC Alert

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 inconvenience.

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 and didn’t properly record his original trial. Here are some selections from that article: COLLIER COUNTY [FL]—The Courtsmart system was …

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 bit from the article: For nearly a year, the Allegheny County prothonotary’s office has been electronically scanning court documents in …

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 with Internet access anywhere in the world can use USPTO’s Web site (www.uspto.gov) to track the status of a public …

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 regular reader. And he actually took the time to tell me so. What a cool guy!