Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Federal Judiciary has launched a new mobile web version of the PACER Case Locator. There is nothing to install – mobile visitors to PACER Case Locator will simply be redirected to pcl.uscourts.gov/searchmobile. The PACER Case Locator allows searching for court records in all district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. The Mobile PACER Case Locator is …
Bruce Hoesly, Revising Attorney/Code Editor at the Legislative Reference Bureau, informed me of some very exciting changes to the Wisconsin legislative and administrative databases on the Legislature’s website. Note that the link on the Legislature’s homepage that used to say “Searchable Infobases” now says “Documents.” This change reflects the move to the new HTML view …
The Federal Judiciary has launched a new PACER training site where current and future users can learn how to use PACER. You don’t have to register, and there is no charge for accessing this training area. The site includes data from real cases filed in the New York Western District Court between 1/1/2007 and 7/1/2007 …
The Wisconsin court system has recently redesigned its Web site. According to the press release, “in addition to a new graphical presentation, the new Web site helps guides visitors with better organized tabs and drop-down menus…” The press release describes two new features on the home page: The “quick links” tab leads visitors to each …
“The federal courts announced on Tuesday that they would be increasing fees for accessing public court records by 25 percent, from 8
Today, JSTOR announced that they are making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly …
The Wisconsin Legislature has officially released the dramatically improved web search platform for the Wisconsin Statutes. It has been available in beta for a while (see my earlier post about it), but now it is the default platform. According to a press release: The new search engine, which is easier to use, will present more …
In updating the “Legal Periodicals and Indexes” chapter of the upcoming edition of Fundamentals of Legal Research, I’ve done some digging into the details of two major indexes that will be changing platforms in the very near future: Index to Legal Periodicals and Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. Index to Legal Periodicals For many years, …
It appears that Jureeka! is now powered by Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII). Jureeka! is a Firefox plugin that turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. It’s great for quickly locating statutes, case law, regulations, federal court rules, international law sources, and more. We’ve installed Jureeka! on …
A few weeks ago I posted that Google had discontinued the Google Uncle Sam search engine for government documents. Law Librarian Blog reports that Google has, unfortunately, discontinued a few more things: “The option for Advanced Search no longer appears on the main Google page. You can still get there by going to http://www.google.com/advanced_search. The …