Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim has written a thoughtful piece about PACER for The National Law Journal. Tunheim has been closely involved with PACER as longtime member and chair of the Judicial Conference’s Court Admini
FDsys.gov, the Government Printing Office’s replacement for the aging GPO Access website, continues to grow. It now covers the following: Congressional Bills, 103rd Congress (1993-1994) to present; BILLS 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CCAL Congressional Committee Prints, 100th Congress (1987-1988) to present; CRPT Congressional Directory, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CDIR Congressional Documents, 104th Congress …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Marquette Law Review, in full text, is available online from its inception in 1916. The researcher is able to browse by volume or conduct a keyword search. There is a nice summary of the database available on the Marquette Faculty Blog. There is also an RSS option …
According to Law Librarian Blog, PreCYdent – one of the free online legal search services – is no longer available. Apparently it folded due to lack of funds.
From the BJS Email News service: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) website has been redesigned and is now available at: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov. Many new features and tools have been added, and the site’s content has been completely reorganized to allow users to quickly find the information they’re seeking. New features include enhanced search capabilities, prominent …
The White House announced yesterday that it had renominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for United Stated District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Citer is a new tool from the Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute that looks for legal citations in ordinary web pages and points to a free, full-text version of the cited source. The concept is very similar to Jureeka, but Citer works in multiple browsers including IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera. Jureeka is …
From the Wisconsin State Journal: The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to prohibit texting while driving, and the Senate is expected to take up and pass that version of the bill. Gov. Jim Doyle has said he would sign a ban passed by the Legislature…. Penalties could be up to $400 for first offenses, …
Wisconsin’s electronics recycling legislation, signed last October, went into effect on January 1st of this year. The law, Act 50, creates an electronics recycling program for certain devices used by Wisconsin households and K-12 public schools. From the Wisconsin DNR’s E-Cycle Wisconsin website: Under the law, manufacturers of covered electronic devices (CEDs) sold to Wisconsin …
As of the new year, the Wisconsin State Law Library changed their document delivery fees. From WSLL @ Your Service: For well over 10 years our minimum charge for delivery by fax, mail or email had been $3.00 for anything up to 4 pages. The new minimum charge of $15.00 covers delivery (by email, fax …