A suit filed last week by Habush Habush & Rottier alleges that the firm of Cannon & Dunphy effectively hijacked the names and reputation of Habush attorneys by purchasing the keywords “Habush” and “Rottier” for …
Month: November 2009
Guides to Legal Research for the Layperson
The American Association of Law Libraries Legal Information Services to the Public SIS has recently published a new edition of its research guide, How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers. This guide …
Latest UW Law School Faculty Scholarship
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Mobilizing Law in Contemporary Russia: The Evolution of Disputes Over Home Repair Projects by Kathryn Hendley Taking …
Finalists for 7th Circ. Judge Selected
From the Chicago Tribune: Six finalists from a field of 11 applicants have been selected to fill a pending vacancy on a federal appeals court which handles appeals from Wisconsin and other states. Two of …
Free Case Law Now Available on Google Scholar
Wow – big news last night from Google: Free case law is now available in Google Scholar! There isn’t much description yet from Google, but Internet For Lawyers has a nice run down of the …
Something Rotten at the State Capitol – Literally!
You never know what you’re going to turn up in the Odd Wisconsin Archives. I had to laugh at the story about the “cache of decaying venison and sturgeon” stored a basement room of the …
Revised Google Settlement on Digital Books
Google has filed a modified version of their controversial books settlement in federal court last Friday. From the New York Times: The settlement, of a 2005 lawsuit over Google’s ambitious plan to digitize books from …
Article: After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School
UW Madison News has a wonderful profile of Cecelia Klingele about her experience as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens. A 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Cecelia …
Supreme Court Fantasy League
FantasySCOTUS.net is a new fantasy league that allows you to compete against your friends, colleagues, and adversaries to determine who has the greatest ability to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. The site is …
A Facebook Alibi
There is an interesting story in this week’s New York Times about a robbery suspect cleared because of his Facebook alibi. His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about …