Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Deliberations has an interesting post on jurors who blog. The part that caught my librarian’s eye was the collection of tips on setting up searches to find juror blog posts. Summarized, they are: Learn about RSS and get yourself a feed reader Search for your case name plus “jury duty” and your city Search both …
More goodies from Justia – they expanded their Federal District Court Filings database. They’ve gone back a few more years and now cover from 2004 to the present. And now, in addition to just seeing information about the case, for some cases you can actually view the opinions, orders, and complete filings. This is awesome! …
WisconsinEye announced yesterday that it will begin gavel-to-gavel broadcast coverage of oral arguments in the State Supreme Court beginning with today’s with three scheduled cases. State of Wisconsin v. Ronald Schaefer (Case # 2006AP1826-CRAC) Stuart v. Weisflog’s Showroom Gallery (Case # 2005AP1287)09-05-07 Stuart v. Weisflog’s Showroom Gallery (Case # 2005AP886) WisconsinEye President & CEO Chris …
The New York Times reports on the project of “Internet gadfly” Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, to make more than 10 million pages of case law available free online. According to the ReadMe file on Public.Resource.Org, The short-term goal of the project is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the …
JS Online reports that the ABA is considering a resolution urging local, state and federal governments to seal the records of criminal cases in which convictions were not obtained. “It also calls for sealing the records of misdemeanor and felony convictions after a specified period of ‘law-abiding conduct.’ Only police and prosecutors would have access …
Proof and Hearsay, the blog from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff on legal issues, offers another handy CCAP search tip: how to look at individual case records without having to click on the disclaimer screen for every new case that comes up. Installing a Firefox script using Greasemonkey is required. That may sound scary, but …
From Reuters: Britain’s lawyers and judges are to break with centuries-old tradition and cease wearing white horse-hair wigs in non-criminal cases, the head of the country’s judiciary announced on Thursday. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, said new dress rules would mean the wigs, which British legal professionals have worn since the …
“Continuing its efforts to enhance the transparency of courtroom proceedings, the federal Judiciary is about to launch a pilot project to make digital audio recordings publicly available online,” reports The Third Branch. Five pilot project courts will begin loading the audio files into their CM/ECF systems later this summer where they will be available via …
To encourage new users, AudioCaseFiles, a web site of downloadable MP3 files of court opinions, is available at no charge this summer. This service, which is aimed at law students, provides recordings of most of the opinions that appear in many law school first year course casebooks. Looks like there are a couple hundred so …
A few weeks ago, our Evening and Weekend Reference Librarian, Eric Taylor, noticed a large gap in the public domain citation numbers for the 2007 Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions. Upon contacting the court, we received the following memorandum from Christopher Paulsen, Chief Deputy Clerk: Please be advised that the Public Domain Citation (PDC) numbers …