Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 menus…” The press release describes two new features on the home page: The “quick links” tab leads visitors to each …
“The federal courts announced on Tuesday that they would be increasing fees for accessing public court records by 25 percent, from 8
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 criminal court including biographical details of the men and women executed at Tyburn. Contains all surviving editions of the Old …
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 allow parallel citations to the unofficial regional reporters such as the North East Reporter and Illinois Decisions. For more, see …
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 for Information Technology Policy has found thousands more PACER documents in which parties tried to redact sensitive information but the …
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 factors to consider, many beyond the control of the parties. But what about non-legal factors? A new study published in …
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 images, and the staff at the UW Law Library, who host this database on their website. Due to the adoption …
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, but an account is required. The pilot project will allow users to access them without a login in FDsys. Twelve …
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 across the country. Some of the more colorful titles include: Schmuck v. United States United States v. Bad Marriage United …
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 we migrate it to a new server. We apologize for the inconvenience.