Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the Free Law Project: We are happy to announce that we have compiled, collected and analyzed the complete collection of precedential federal tax opinions from the Board of Tax Appeals (1924-1942) and later the United States Tax Court (1942-). Our collection of tax cases spans two courts, nearly a century, and comprises nearly twenty-four …
Earlier this week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the legality of fees charged by the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. The suit, NVLSP v. U.S., was brought by three national nonprofit organizations (the National Veterans Legal Services Program, the National …
Join us for the latest edition of the Wisconsin Law in Action podcast from the UW Law Library for an engaging conversation with Michele LaVigne, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Public Defender Project. LaVigne discusses her article “Under the Hood: Brendan Dassey, Language Impairments, and Judicial Ignorance” which she co-authored with speech-language …
Carol Hassler of Wisconsin State Law Library has put together a very helpful guide on finding older legal materials in the latest edition of InsideTrack. She provides tips on locating archived: Laws & Regulations Agency Opinions Court Opinions Court Rules Archived Websites Book Editions
For some interesting observations about the 2018-19 Wisconsin Supreme Court term, check out the latest SCOWstats post. It analyzes the number of decisions filed and polarization within the court and offers some speculation about the 2019-20 term.
By Eric Taylor, Evening Reference Librarian For ages, people have been putting together books of lists. Librarians love to catalog books making lists. Merchant marines make manifests. In fact, there is probably a list for everything. In the present book, A Book of Legal Lists (1997), the author Bernard Schwartz tackles the law. Here there is a list for …
By Eric Taylor, Reference Librarian The Free Law Project recently announced the availability of PACER Docket Alerts on CourtListener.com. CourtListener is a free public access website tracking federal and state courts. The Docket Alert tool will send you an email anytime there is a new court filing in a case you are following in PACER. …
The USA TODAY NETWORK has recently published the results of a survey in which practicing attorneys throughout the state were asked to score the county judges before whom they have appeared. The Wisconsin Judicial Performance Database compiles more than 4,000 responses rating 209 Wisconsin circuit court judges. Below is a snapshot of the highest rated Milwaukee County judges …
CCAP, or the Consolidated Court Automation Program, is the Wisconsin electronic circuit court case management system. Recently, several bills were introduced in the Wisconsin legislature regarding CCAP. Both of these bills, Assembly Bill 723 and Senate Bill 612, list what categories of information should be provided and searchable on CCAP, including: County where …
The Free Law Project has recently announced that in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Labor and Georgia State University, they have collected every free written order and opinion that is currently available in PACER. New opinions will be downloaded every night (!) to keep the collection up-to-date. Currently, the collection contains about 3.4 million …