Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Barbara Fritschel at the US Courts Library has created a summary sheet of the many changes to the Eastern District of Wisconsin Local Rules. She includes changes to the General Local Rules, Civil Local Rules and Local Criminal Rules along with the citations to each. Update 3/10: A full copy of the rules is available …
Wow – this one just made my jaw drop. From Law.com: It may sound like a Hollywood pitch for a summer movie aimed at teens, but it’s taken directly from the pages of a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia that spins a tale of high school teachers secretly installing cameras in hundreds of students’ homes …
From The Third Branch by the Wisconsin Court System: To help judges address electronic communication during trials, the Wisconsin Criminal Jury Instructions Committee recently developed a jury instruction that was disseminated to judges at the Judicial Conference and is also available on CCAP (the Consolidated Court Automation Programs). Professor David Schultz, chief staff member of …
Need to brush up on your computer skills? If you live in the Milwaukee area, then you’re in luck because the Milwaukee Public Library has recently acquired the LearningExpress Library Computer Skills Learning Center. From Now @ MPL: The database features interactive video, animations, quizzes and sound, and the tutorials include: Access 2003 & 2007 …
The UW Law School Global Legal Studies Center, the UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, and the International Practice Section of the State Bar are co-sponsoring three workshops on Current Issues in International Law: Implications for Wisconsin The workshops are free for attorneys, policy makers, state agency personnel, civil society groups, students …
From USCourts.gov: At its December 2009 meeting, the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM) endorsed a set of suggested jury instructions that district judges should consider using to help deter jurors from using electronic technologies to research or communicate about cases on which they serve.
UW Law School students will help Dane County homeowners facing foreclosure take their cases through a mediation process with their lenders, reports UW–Madison News. Beginning in February, Dane County Circuit Court will require lenders to tell homeowners they have an option to mediate their foreclosure cases and notify them of available resources, including a clinic …
CaseLaw Express is free weekly email service from the Wisconsin State Bar which lists all decisions handed down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals during the previous week. To subscribe, see the State Bar web site. Subscribers must reconfirm their interest in receiving this service each year. If you are a subscriber …
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has published new local rules effective Feb. 1, 2010. Note in particular new Civil Local Rule 7 (j) governing citations to unpublished materials. It appears below along with the committee comment. (j) Citations. (1) With the exception of the prohibitions in Seventh Circuit Rule …
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim has written a thoughtful piece about PACER for The National Law Journal. Tunheim has been closely involved with PACER as longtime member and chair of the Judicial Conference’s Court Admini