Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
FDsys.gov, the Government Printing Office’s replacement for the aging GPO Access website, continues to grow. It now covers the following: Congressional Bills, 103rd Congress (1993-1994) to present; BILLS 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CCAL Congressional Committee Prints, 100th Congress (1987-1988) to present; CRPT Congressional Directory, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present; CDIR Congressional Documents, 104th Congress …
From Bev Butula’s Wisconsin Law Journal blog: The Marquette Law Review, in full text, is available online from its inception in 1916. The researcher is able to browse by volume or conduct a keyword search. There is a nice summary of the database available on the Marquette Faculty Blog. There is also an RSS option …
According to Law Librarian Blog, PreCYdent – one of the free online legal search services – is no longer available. Apparently it folded due to lack of funds.
The White House announced yesterday that it had renominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for United Stated District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
From the Wisconsin State Journal: The Assembly overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to prohibit texting while driving, and the Senate is expected to take up and pass that version of the bill. Gov. Jim Doyle has said he would sign a ban passed by the Legislature…. Penalties could be up to $400 for first offenses, …
As of the new year, the Wisconsin State Law Library changed their document delivery fees. From WSLL @ Your Service: For well over 10 years our minimum charge for delivery by fax, mail or email had been $3.00 for anything up to 4 pages. The new minimum charge of $15.00 covers delivery (by email, fax …
Next month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the state’s discovery rules that specifically pertain to electronic discovery. According to the Wisconsin Lawyer The amendments are adapted from the Uniform Rules on the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information and the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of …
Here is the latest faculty scholarship from the UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series via SSRN. Law, Politics, and Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries by Heinz Klug Resolving Problems Among Neighbors in Post-Soviet Russia: Uncovering the Law of the Pod”ezd by Kathryn Hendley A Legal Regime for the Mining of Helium-3 …
On December 1, 2009, new time computation amendments to the federal rules and statutes will become effective. The Time Computation Project, as it is called, proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Appellate Procedure, and Bankruptcy Rules. According to the Standing Rules Committee, “The principal simplifying change in these rules is …
The New York Times reports that Google is closing a loophole which allowed users to access large numbers of articles on subscription-based sites without paying for them. The company’s “First Click Free” program, which publishers of pay sites can choose to participate in, is designed to allow readers to get a taste of a site’s …