Category: Courts

From the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin Government Relations Chair, Candace Hall Slaminski: It appears all proposed legislation relating to CCAP has died this session. AB 253 and SB 234, both relating to restricting access to and limiting information in CCAP, have failed this session. AB 520, relating to removing certain information in CCAP, failed …

OYEZ, the website long known for its coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, plans to expand access to the proceedings of State Supreme Courts. Through a grant from the Open Government project sponsored by the Knight Foundation, the OYEZ Project will enlarge its free online archive of transcripts, audio recordings, news and analysis of court …

According to the latest InsideTrack, the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin has created an Appellate Brief Filing Checklist outlining requirements to help lawyers during the brief-writing process. The first part is a checklist with boxes permitting practitioners literally to check off the items as they are included in a brief, and …

From WisBar’s InsideTrack: A state rule of appellate procedure that allows attorneys to cite unpublished Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions as persuasive authority will continue unchanged, the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently concluded…. Under Wis. Stat. section 809.23(3)(b), only unpublished opinions issued on or after July 1, 2009, which are authored by a member of a …

Today’s On This Day in Wisconsin History features the passage of a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature prohibiting denial of admission to the bar on the basis of gender. Here’s more from the State Historical Society: R. Lavinia Goodell was the first woman admitted to the Wisconsin State Bar in 1897. Goodell had first applied …

FedCtRecords is a iPhone/iPad app which allows registered PACER users to search and retrieve documents. It is free for a limited time. According to the support page, you can: * Search Attorney and Party names within a District Court. * Add Attorney information to the Contacts Application. * Save multiple cases for quick retrieval. * …

Earlier this month, Portage County joined Wisconsin’s Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) electronic case-management system. Since it was the last of Wisconsin’s 72 counties to join, CCAP now has complete statewide integration. For more information, see The Third Branch.

On April 26, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court approved restyled amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence. The amendments became effective today, December 1, 2011. For more information about the restyling, see The Third Branch. They are available online at Cornell’s LII. Apparently the uscourts.gov website has not yet been updated. Hat tip to my …

The Federal Judiciary has launched a new mobile web version of the PACER Case Locator. There is nothing to install – mobile visitors to PACER Case Locator will simply be redirected to pcl.uscourts.gov/searchmobile. The PACER Case Locator allows searching for court records in all district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. The Mobile PACER Case Locator is …

The Federal Judiciary has launched a new PACER training site where current and future users can learn how to use PACER. You don’t have to register, and there is no charge for accessing this training area. The site includes data from real cases filed in the New York Western District Court between 1/1/2007 and 7/1/2007 …