Year: 2010

From USCourts.gov: At its December 2009 meeting, the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM) endorsed a set of suggested jury instructions that district judges should consider using to help deter jurors from using electronic technologies to research or communicate about cases on which they serve.

Last month, the Wisconsin Assembly introduced another bill which would affect access to CCAP. Tony Chan, chair of Government Relations for the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin had this report: On January 22, 2010, 2009 ASSEMBLY BILL 663 was introduced by Representatives Marlin D. Schneider, Kelda Helen Roys and Annette Polly Williams, and Frederick Kessler. …

CaseLaw Express is free weekly email service from the Wisconsin State Bar which lists all decisions handed down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals during the previous week. To subscribe, see the State Bar web site. Subscribers must reconfirm their interest in receiving this service each year. If you are a subscriber …

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has published new local rules effective Feb. 1, 2010. Note in particular new Civil Local Rule 7 (j) governing citations to unpublished materials. It appears below along with the committee comment. (j) Citations. (1) With the exception of the prohibitions in Seventh Circuit Rule …

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