The Volokh Conspiracy examines the question of whether Lexis and Westlaw infringe copyright when they post briefs filed in court. Read more: The argument for infringement is actually moderately strong. Like most other documents, briefs …
Year: 2009
Legacies of Lincoln Conference & Database of Materials from Lincoln's Law Practice
From the Marquette Law School Faculty Blog: This year marks both the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and the sesquicentennial of his visit to Milwaukee to speak at the Wisconsin State Fair… To commemorate these …
New Budget changes Sentencing Practices in WI
From The Third Branch (newsletter of the Wisconsin Court System): The new state budget, 2009 Act 28, includes changes in sentencing practices that go well beyond the early release provisions that received most of the …
Article: Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools
The latest edition of LLRX features a useful article by Ken Strutin on Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools. This article is a short list identifying some ways to learn about new technologies that …
Bill Would Provide Funding For and Change Name of Law Library of Congress
From <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12948145"The Salt Lake Tribune: The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday named in honor of former Utah Rep. Bill Orton that would boost funding to the Law Library of Congress… “Bill Orton was …
Tools for Scheduling Meetings
Bev Butula’s recent column in InsideTrack introduces a couple of tools for scheduling meetings: Coordinating schedules when working with a group of individuals can be a time-consuming process. It often entails several email exchanges or …
Budget May be Republished due to Veto Error
“The Legislature is looking at republishing the state budget without one of Gov. Jim Doyle’s partial vetoes because the veto violated the state constitution,” reports JS Online. Legislative leaders did not want to try to …
First Criminal Arrest for Domain Name Theft in U.S.
DomainNameNews reports on the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States. According to the story: Daniel Goncalves, the 25 year old law firm computer technician arrested on Thursday, reportedly hacked in …
Free, Easy File Format Conversion
Have you ever received a document in a format that you couldn’t open? Maybe a MS Office 2007 .docx format but you’re using an older version of Office? Or wanted to convert a document to …
Refocusing the Debate over Statutory History
The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog features an interesting take on the debate over the usability of statutory history. The current debate centers on whether reliance on statutory history is consistent with a plain …