Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Phil Blog is a new initiative from Tennessee Governor, Phil Bredesen. Although he confesses that he won’t blog daily, he will “on a regular basis, use this space to share my ideas on issues and provide personal dispatches from trips I take and events I attend, like the National Governors Association conferences.” This is neat. …
Want to find out the birth date of someone? Try Anybirthday.com – simply enter in first and last name and optional zip code. The database contains over 135 million birth dates. I found myself, but noticed that my zip code is old. Also, it has me listed by my given first name, “Bonita” – not …
The Wisconsin Law Journal reports on UW Law Prof. Marc Galanter’s study about the decline of jury trials in the United States. From the article: In the past several decades class actions, technology, regulation and legislation have made the fact questions quite apparently answerable, thus the need for answers on the law are all that …
It’s hard to believe, but Information Week reports that, in exchange for a $3 Starbucks gift card, 85% of computer-users surveyed were willing to reveal their password or at least give hints about it. The survey was conducted by an Internet security and infrastructure company called VeriSign Inc, who questioned passers-by on San Francisco’s Market …
The folks over at the Legislative Reference Bureau have been busy podcasting lately. Some of the latest topics include the Public Trust Doctrine, TABOR, and more.
Friday’s ABA Journal E-Report offers some advice for attorneys and other legal practitioners who are thinking about blogging. It also encourages firm administrators to establish guidelines for their employee bloggers.
Pretrieve, my new favorite people finder, has added court records to it’s search results. In Wisconsin, this means that it will conduct a search in the WI Supreme Court opinion & orders database and the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) database. However, as Genie Tyburski points out, “Pretrieve’s coverage extends only to courts with Web-based …
MediaDailyNews has a sad story about a NY man who died of starvation while trying to keep up with almost 50 online forums and contributing to 375 different blogs. He was glued to his computer 24/7,” [his wife] said tearfully. “He was so afraid he was going to miss an opportunity to contribute a comment …
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the murder case against Evan Zimmerman has been dropped. As you may recall, this was Wisconsin Innocence Project’s latest case. Eau Claire County District Attorney Rich White asked a judge Friday to throw out the case mid-trial, saying he lacked the evidence to show “beyond a reasonable doubt” that …
It seems that a blogger has recovered confidential text from an an official Pentagon report regarding the murder of an Italian secret agent in Bagdad. The Pentagon, which issued the document in PDF, had hidden much of the confidential content by blacking it out. However, by simply copying and pasting the blacked-out text into a …