Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 …
In response to my post lamenting that more legal researchers don’t seek out the help of a law librarian, Jeremy Richey asks a good question on the Advanced Electronic Legal Research Blog: What sort of questions would be appropriate to ask? For example, would it be appropriate to call them in an attempt to find …
On the UW Law Library New Book Shelf: Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated Chapter one features an “oral history” by Chris Ochoa, entitled “My Life Is a Broken Puzzle.” Currently a law student at the UW Law School, he spent 12 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and was …
PACER is now offering free access to opinions in federal district courts using CM/ECF version 2.4 or higher. CM/ECF is the Federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files System. This applies to the Eastern District of Wisconsin which uses CM/ECF Version 2.5. The Western District of Wisconsin, however, apparently does not use the CM/ECF system. The …
West has released Graphical Statutes for the USCA, offering “a visual timeline of a statute’s past, present and future, with links to all underlying documents.” Like graphical KeyCite, this flowcart-like display really helps me understand the big picture.
So how’d they get the sign out there? Posted to Madison Snaps, Isthmus.com
An observation by Jesse Russell of Dane101: It occurs to me that the word blog is becoming to bloggers what the word smurf was to Smurfs. “I saw the bloggingest blog the other day. It was bloggingly bloggy.” Read more about Jesse’s bloggy thoughts on the WisPolitics.com blog summit.
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries has launched its first conference blog. Look for posts by SLAW’s Michael Lines, Vancouver Law Librarian Blog’s Steve Matthews, and Connie Crosby. The CALL conference will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Edmonton, Alberta. Although I won’t be attending the conference, reading the blog is the next best thing. …
In going through some files, I found an old issue of Westlaw Password featuring this photo, circa 1986. Bring back any memories? I think that my parents got our first home computer around that time. It was an Atari which used our TV as a monitor and cassette tapes as storage media. Those were the …