According to a recent press release, the University of Wisconsin–Madison smoke-free policy has been updated to include language prohibiting electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes. The policy will go into effect on May 1st. See the …
Month: April 2016
Implementation of Mandatory eFiling in Wisconsin
Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court approved a new rule requiring mandatory electronic filing statewide. (Wis. Stat. § 801.18) According to a recent edition of The Third Branch, the quarterly newsletter of the Wisconsin court …
Federal Court to Consider whether PACER Fees are Excessive
From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: A class action lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the fees charged by PACER, the federal courts’ online court records system, as excessive. The lawsuit seeks …
Article: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books
According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in …
Tips for Enabling and Completing Fillable PDF Forms
Have you ever been asked to complete and electronically submit a fillable PDF form only to find that you couldn’t save it after you’d finished completing it? That all you could do was print it, …
Recent UW Law School Faculty and Staff Scholarship
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Decentering the Consuming Self: Personalized Medicine, Science, and the Market for Lemons …