Month: April 2016

UW Madison Bans E-Cigarettes

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 full press release for more information.

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 system, the mandatory eFiling rule takes effect July 1 but will be phased in gradually over the next three years. …

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 to obtain relief on behalf of “all individuals and entities who have paid fees for the use of PACER within …

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 copyright infringement “on an epic scale” by digitizing, indexing, and displaying snippets of print books in internet search results. From …

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, then have to snail mail, fax, or scan it back in? Or maybe you’re the one who created a form …

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 by Shubha Ghosh Constitutional Lawyers and the Inter-American Court’s Varied Authority by Alexandra Valeria Huneeus The University of Wisconsin Law …