Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Lawyers who fail to verify AI-generated content do so at their own peril – and now, potentially at the peril of fee awards. A California Court of Appeals decision adds a new wrinkle to the growing body of AI hallucination cases by asking: What happens when opposing counsel fails to detect an opponent’s fake citations? …
The Free Law Project recently announced its intention to build a citator using AI. If successful, the emergence of an open-access, open-source legal citator would be significant to both practitioners and the public. Citators, such as Shepard’s and KeyCite, answer the foundational question of whether the case law you are using is good law, bad …
Two interesting developments on attorney use of ChatGPT in court filings: A New York attorney is facing sanctions for using ChatGPT in an affidavit that he submitted without checking the accuracy of the information it provided. From Business Insider: “Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus …
Last week, Wisconsin Law in Action from the UW Law Library welcomed Richard Monette back to the podcast (both audio and video available). Monette is Professor of Law and Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Monette talks with host Kris Turner about Brackeen v. Haaland which …
The Wisconsin Law Review’s annual symposium is this weekend, October 28 and 29. The symposium, entitled Controlling the Supreme Court: Now and “far into the future,” features a panel of national constitutional experts who will reflect on the extraordinary events of this past Supreme Court term, from overruling Roe v. Wade to new interpretive approaches …
The UW Law Library is pleased to announce the installation of a new exhibit, “Justice for All: The Legacy of Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson.” On loan from the Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson Legacy Committee, the exhibit will be on display through December 15th. The exhibit presents the groundbreaking career of Wisconsin’s first woman …
If you routinely access federal dockets and court documents, you may already know that you can get some documents free from the RECAP Archive, a database of millions of PACER documents and dockets maintained by the Free Law Project. These documents are “donated” by users who purchase them on PACER, then automatically send them to the …
Free federal court records are now one step closer: The federal judiciary’s policymaking body has endorsed a proposal to make federal court records searches via the PACER electronic database free to non-commercial users. According to a newly released report, the Judicial Conference of the United States has endorsed “making all searches free of charge for all …
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved an amendment to Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 31.01 (11) to allow tribal courts to appoint attorneys to provide pro bono legal services, and to permit the attorney to claim continuing legal education credits in lieu of monetary payments. Effective April 20, 2022, Wisconsin attorneys who accept appointments from state, …
I recently discovered that Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission Rulings and Orders are now available in full text on Wisconsin.gov. The Tax Appeals Commission (TAC) is an independent state agency that was created by the Wisconsin State Legislature to hear and determine disputes between taxpayers and the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and, in some limited instances, …