Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Today’s WI State Journal contains a nice article on the Dane County Legal Resource Center. About 80 percent of the people who use the resource center are going to court without an attorney, [Director Paula] Seeger said. Even though much information is available on the Internet, people still need personal assistance, she said. Court officials …
Microsoft has beta released a new search engine for academic journal content called Windows Live. According to a press release, the initial beta release will target the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering and physics, although they plan to bring new subjects online in the near future. It seems that Microsoft, like Google Scholar, has …
Law.com reports that Supreme Court Votes to Allow Citation to Unpublished Opinions in Federal Courts The Supreme Court on Wednesday adopted a historic rule change that will allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts starting next year. The new rule takes effect unless Congress countermands it before Dec. 1. . . Under …
Last week, I had the opportunity to meet with Barry and Jo from Court Data Technologies. They introduced me to their new CourtTracker service and I must say that I was impressed. Basically, CourtTracker takes CCAP case data (Wisconsin circuit courts) and allows you to search it in powerful ways not available via CCAP. It’s …
From Jenkins Webblits: TechCrunch has a great piece on The State of Online Feed Readers. It includes a handy chart showing you all of the features each reader offers.
Yesterday’s National Library Week Trivia Answer Question: In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as its legal substance. Why? Answer: Some suspected that the Ninth Circuit judge worked more than 200 movie titles into the text of …
Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.
JS Online reports on this year’s Who Reads What?, a list of celebrities’ favorite books compiled by Maine librarian, Glenna Nowell. Their responses ranged from the nice – Rosalynn Carter’s favorite is the Bible – to the naughty: dirty joke books favored by writer Piers Anthony. . . Many of the titles deal with more …
Yesterday, it was the students’ turn to Stump the Library Staff (which we are still researching). For today’s National Library Week contest, we are back to asking the questions. In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as …
Monday’s Guess the Grad Contest is history and we had quite a few folks participate. And a fair number who pointed out that question #1 didn’t quite hit the mark. Here are the answers as written by reference librarian, Jenny Zook: 1. Who is the UW graduate who sang, “I might get rich, you know …