Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Last month, the Wisconsin Assembly introduced another bill which would affect access to CCAP. Tony Chan, chair of Government Relations for the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin had this report: On January 22, 2010, 2009 ASSEMBLY BILL 663 was introduced by Representatives Marlin D. Schneider, Kelda Helen Roys and Annette Polly Williams, and Frederick Kessler. …
CaseLaw Express is free weekly email service from the Wisconsin State Bar which lists all decisions handed down by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals during the previous week. To subscribe, see the State Bar web site. Subscribers must reconfirm their interest in receiving this service each year. If you are a subscriber …
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has published new local rules effective Feb. 1, 2010. Note in particular new Civil Local Rule 7 (j) governing citations to unpublished materials. It appears below along with the committee comment. (j) Citations. (1) With the exception of the prohibitions in Seventh Circuit Rule …
U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim has written a thoughtful piece about PACER for The National Law Journal. Tunheim has been closely involved with PACER as longtime member and chair of the Judicial Conference’s Court Admini
The White House announced yesterday that it had renominated former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler for United Stated District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.
Next month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold a public hearing regarding the proposed amendments to the state’s discovery rules that specifically pertain to electronic discovery. According to the Wisconsin Lawyer The amendments are adapted from the Uniform Rules on the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information and the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of …
On December 1, 2009, new time computation amendments to the federal rules and statutes will become effective. The Time Computation Project, as it is called, proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Appellate Procedure, and Bankruptcy Rules. According to the Standing Rules Committee, “The principal simplifying change in these rules is …
From the Chicago Tribune: Six finalists from a field of 11 applicants have been selected to fill a pending vacancy on a federal appeals court which handles appeals from Wisconsin and other states. Two of the six finalists are UW–Madison law professors Anuj Desai and Victoria Nourse. Read the article for the full list.
Wow – big news last night from Google: Free case law is now available in Google Scholar! There isn’t much description yet from Google, but Internet For Lawyers has a nice run down of the features. Here are some highlights: Coverage of the database: 1 US 1 (pre 1776) 1 F 2d 1 (1924 +) …
There is an interesting story in this week’s New York Times about a robbery suspect cleared because of his Facebook alibi. His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about the Facebook entry, which was made at the time of the robbery. The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook to verify that …