Year: 2005

The Milwaukee County Courthouse has established a self-help clinic for small claims matters. The clinic will run every Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The clinic is seeking volunteers to help provide general information and assistance in filling out small claims forms. For more information, see the notice in the MBA Messenger. ——- UPDATE …

The GATT Digital Library is a new database from Stanford University & the World Trade Organization. The collection contains over 30,000 documents of and about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), an organization that promoted international commerce and the reduction of trade barriers among member states from 1947-1994. Although a small number of …

Pretrieve, my new favorite people finder, has added court records to it’s search results. In Wisconsin, this means that it will conduct a search in the WI Supreme Court opinion & orders database and the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) database. However, as Genie Tyburski points out, “Pretrieve’s coverage extends only to courts with Web-based …

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts has issued their 2004 Wiretap Report. The report covers the number and nature of federal and state applications for orders authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications in 2004. It also provides supplementary information on arrests and convictions resulting from intercepts concluded in …

UW Law School’s very own Law & Entrepreneurship News hosts this week’s Blawg Review. As you may recall, Blawg Review offers weekly summaries of the week’s hot posts from around the blawgosphere. This week’s topics include: law schools, IP law, war stuff, canon law and more. And thanks to Blawg Review and Patent Baristas for …

Houghton Mifflin has made its full-text Reader’s Companion to American History available at no charge online. It contains the following titles: + Reader’s Companion to American History + Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History + Reader’s Companion to Military History + Encyclopedia of North American Indians + Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia + …

MediaDailyNews has a sad story about a NY man who died of starvation while trying to keep up with almost 50 online forums and contributing to 375 different blogs. He was glued to his computer 24/7,” [his wife] said tearfully. “He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment …

Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin member, Beth Bland, has written an informative article entitled, Findlaw for Legal Professionals: An Overview, which appears in the April 27th edition of Wisconsin Law Journal. The article describes the features available in FindLaw from a legal professional’s point-of-view.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the murder case against Evan Zimmerman has been dropped. As you may recall, this was Wisconsin Innocence Project’s latest case. Eau Claire County District Attorney Rich White asked a judge Friday to throw out the case mid-trial, saying he lacked the evidence to show “beyond a reasonable doubt” that …

It seems that a blogger has recovered confidential text from an an official Pentagon report regarding the murder of an Italian secret agent in Bagdad. The Pentagon, which issued the document in PDF, had hidden much of the confidential content by blacking it out. However, by simply copying and pasting the blacked-out text into a …