Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The State Bar of Wisconsin has compiled a handy list of legislative leadership and committee appointments for both the Senate and Assembly. A full list of 2011-12 Senate and Assembly members is available from the Wheeler Report.
The Wisconsin Digital Archives is a collection of state publications in PDF format from about 2000 to the present. The documents made available through the Wisconsin Document Depository Program whose purpose is to preserve and make available a record of major state government program and to assure the availability of state publications for use by …
Unsure whether a work is protected under copyright or is available in the public domain? Check out the nifty slider in which tells you the copyright status by year and whether permission is needed. The slider is published by Michael Brewer & the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Cornell University offers more detail in …
From the John Marshall Law School Library blog: Examples and Explanations, the popular series of study guides, are available online via Google Books. Aspen Publishers has made extensive previews of the titles available for FREE. The full content of each title is not included in the preview, but you will find that a large majority …
2009 Wisconsin Act 220, which prohibits electronic text messaging and electronic mail messaging while driving, takes effect Dec 1, 2010. Specifically, the Act creates s. 346.89(3), which states: “No person may drive, as defined in s. 343.305(1)(b), any motor vehicle while composing or sending an electronic text message or an electronic mail message.” Violators are …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently acquired the Digital Sanborn Atlases which contains very detailed, large-scale maps of Wisconsin towns and cities from 1867-1970. The maps were created by the Sanborn Map Company for fire insurance purposes. They detail buildings and their construction materials and were used to assess potential risk from fire and other …
This weekend, third year law students at the University of Wisconsin will honor an almost century long tradition (no one knows for sure) of the homecoming cane parade and toss. A recent article in On Wisconsin describes the tradition: When they arrive in the shadow of the Field House, students toss their canes over the …
The latest edition of InsideTrack from the Wisconsin State Bar highlights some major improvements in the search capability of Books Unbound. Books UnBound is the subscription-based online library of State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books. The first improvement is that you can now search across the all of the Books UnBound titles in your subscription. …
This morning, Wisconsin Supreme Court voted 7-0 to keep Wisconsin’s diploma privilege in tact. The justices rejected a proposal from a group of lawyers who wanted to end the practice. Read more at the JS Online blog, Proof and Hearsay, and the Marquette Law School faculty blog.
From the U.S. Government Printing Office: The sunset of GPO Access is planned for the end of 2010. At this time, FDsys will assume the role as GPO’s electronic system of record. Migration of all content from GPO Access to FDsys will be complete by October 2010, and the two systems will run in parallel …