Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Philadelphia Inquirer: IRS Plans to Allow Preparers to Sell Data The IRS is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers will be able to sell information from individual returns – or even entire returns – to marketers and data brokers. The …
On March 22, Governor Doyle signed Senate Bill 244, creating 2005 Wisconsin Act 174, which provides for supervised electronic communication between a parent and child after a divorce or legal separation, if allowed by the court. For more, see the article in JS Online. Some family law experts said the Wisconsin legislation wasn’t necessary because …
Here’s a funny one from the Smoking Gun: Judging By His Handwriting MARCH 14–It seems that there is a serious penmanship problem with lawyers filing documents in Mississippi’s Eighth Circuit Court. So much so that the presiding judge there issued the below order warning attorneys that the court clerk would now reject pleadings and motions …
Here’s a pair of items about Wi-Fi access: – Milwaukee Wi-Fi provider ready to start building network (WI Technology Network) – “Installation work on Milwaukee’s Wi-Fi network could begin in a matter of weeks, representatives of the City of Milwaukee and Midwest Fiber Networks said Thursday.” – Wireless Hot Spots in the Courthouse (DCLRC Blawg) …
The Law Library has been invited to take part in UW-Madison Showcase 2006 by presenting a poster featuring WisBlawg. In addition to sharing details about the blog, I’ll offer participants on-the-spot guidance in creating a blog of their own. Wonder if I’ll get any takers? The annual UW-Madison Showcase is a best practices fair where …
We’ve had a pair of Cooper’s Hawks in the tree right outside the Grand Reading Room this week. Beautiful birds.
Donna Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici have recently updated their Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide on LLRX. They recommend a number of excellent free or low cost resources for monitoring of your competitors.
I wouldn’t say that I’m addicted to eBay, but I do like to find a good bargain now and then. Finding just the right item can be a major time drain, though. So, I was pleased to hear that eBay has enabled keyword-generated RSS for monitoring new search results. Just do a search as usual, …
WisPolitics reports that Governor Doyle signed into law consumer protection legislation known as the Register of Deeds Privacy Act (2005 Wisconsin Act 139). The act reduces public access to Social Security numbers on documents filed with the state’s seventy-two registers of deeds offices. The bill uses a two-pronged approach for discouraging the practice of placing …
According to MarketWatch’s Bambi Francisco, Google’s newest service, Google Finance, gets a thumbs-down from some hedge-fund managers. Launched Tuesday, Google’s (GOOG) latest, Google Finance — with its perfunctory quotes, news headlines, charts and the like — is not terribly impressive, partly because it looks so much like other finance sites created years ago, notably Yahoo …