The Wisconsin court system has recently redesigned its Web site. According to the press release, “in addition to a new graphical presentation, the new Web site helps guides visitors with better organized tabs and drop-down …
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Federal Courts Increase PACER Fees by 25%
“The federal courts announced on Tuesday that they would be increasing fees for accessing public court records by 25 percent, from 8
Analysis of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey Revises the History of the Criminal Trial
This week, the New York Times had an interesting article about a digital archive of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The archive is a fully searchable collection of criminal trials held at London’s central …
IL Moves to Public Domain Citation
Effective July 1st, Illinois will join Wisconsin and about a dozen other states in using public domain case citation. Although the changes require official citation to the public-domain numbering and paragraph scheme, they continue to …
Redaction Failures in PACER Documents
A few years ago, a survey by Carl Malamud revealed that PACER contained more than 1600 cases in which litigants submitted documents with unredacted Social Security numbers. Now Timothy B. Lee of the Princeton Center …
Non-legal Factors Affecting Judicial Decisions
From LegalMatch Law Blog: Lawyers frequently have to explain to clients the myriad reasons why their cases didn’t go as expected. In any given civil or criminal case, there are usually a range of legal …
WI Briefs Database Turns a Page
Access to the appellate briefs and appendices in the Wisconsin Briefs database has been brought to you by the successful and collaborative effort of the staff at the State Law Library, who generates the scanned …
Federal Court Opinions to be Available on FDsys
Some federal court opinions will available for free on FDsys as part of a yearlong pilot program between the U.S. GPO and the federal judiciary. Federal court opinions are already available for free on PACER, …
Interesting & Unusual Case Titles
A recent Texas Bar Journal article had me laughing out loud at the reference desk this morning (which earned me some strange looks from our patrons). The article reviews interesting and unusual case titles from …
WI Briefs Database Unavailable this Saturday AM
The UW Law Library hosts a collection of Wisconsin Briefs from Nov 1992 to July 2009. Note that the database will be unavailable for several hours between 8:00 and noon this Saturday, January 22nd as …