Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Jotwell is a new online law journal from “leading academics and practitioners providing short reviews of recent scholarship related to the law that the reviewer likes and thinks deserves a wide audience.” Jotwell, short for The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), is housed on a set of inter-linked blogs on the following subjects: Administrative …
From Wired Magazine: Arizona’s Supreme Court, in a surprising but welcome ruling, has declared that electronic metadata is part of the public record under state law, in a case involving an Arizona police officer who suspects his superiors of backdating a document related to his work performance…. The city argued that metadata — digital information …
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the Section 5 of the FTC Act (15 U.S.C. 45). For the first time, the guidance covers blogs and other social media platforms: The revised Guides …
Here’s the latest batch of faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Coping with Uncertainty: The Role of Contracts in Russian Industry During the Transition to the Market by Kathryn Hendley Risking Health: Failing to Balance Access to Essential Medicines and the Protection of Intellectual Property in Developing …
Saturday’s Wisconsin State Journal has a wonderful front page article about the tenth anniversary celebration of the UW Law School’s Wisconsin Innocence Project. Twelve prisoners have been freed by the Wisconsin Innocence Project. Six of them were there Friday to be honored and watch for the first time an emotional 25-minute video about their cases… …
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Bev Butula discusses CorporationWiki, a web site for company research. The website allows the researcher to search businesses in over 25 states. It also supports an index to browse by company name or a person’s name…. One tool that can be very useful is the “relationship visualizer.” It is …
Jane Pribek at the Wisconsin Law Journal has compiled a list of 10 terrific law practice management blogs. She’s grouped them by Up and coming, Big names, and Home-grown talent. I’m honored to be included in the latter group.
From WisBar InsideTrack: Reminding the federal district court of the need to develop an evidentiary record in the constitutional challenge to Wisconsin’s “diploma privilege,” the state attorney general criticized the plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment and permanent injunctive relief as premature…. The attorney general criticized the plaintiffs for misunderstanding the rationale of the diploma …
Up for debate today in the Senate is a bill that would crack down on text messaging while driving. Wisconsin Senate Bill 103 would ban text messaging for drivers under the age of 18. [see Senate substitute amendment 1 for the under 18 language] According to the bill, violators would be charged a fine between …
Everyone arrested on suspicion of a serious crime in Wisconsin would be required to give a DNA sample under a bill introduced earlier this month. Wisconsin Senate Bill 336 requires law enforcement agencies to collect a biological specimen for DNA analysis from every adult who is arrested for a felony and every juvenile who is …