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WI DOJ Launches Attorney General Opinion Archive

Posted on April 21, 2017

The Wisconsin Department of Justice has recently launched an archive of formal Attorney General opinions.  The opinions, in PDF, are available from the first bound volume of opinions in 1912 to the present. Note that …

Posted in Data & Databases

WI Historical Society Preserves Text from Scrubbed DNR & other Government Websites

Posted on January 4, 2017

Last month the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “the state Department of Natural Resources recently scrubbed language from an agency web page on the Great Lakes that said humans and greenhouse gases are the main …

Posted in Data & Databases, Search Engines

Lexis.com retiring from Law Schools on December 31

Posted on December 13, 2016

It’s the end of an era as Lexis.com, the long-running and highly regarded database says its final goodbyes to the Law School community. With 100% of Lexis content now migrated to Lexis Advance, the small …

Posted in Data & Databases, Research Strategies, Web

New Site Aims to Make Every CRS Report Publicly Available Online

Posted on October 26, 2016

If you’ve ever tried looking for a CRS Report, you know that they can be very difficult to track down.  A new site called everyCRSreport.com is hoping to make them more publicly accessible online. Currently …

Posted in Data & Databases, Legislation & Regs, Public Information

Latest on the Pacer Litigation

Posted on October 14, 2016

There is a good piece on the latest in the Pacer litigation on Quartz.  Several non-profits claim that fees charged by Pacer, an online database of papers filed by litigants in the US federal courts, …

Posted in Courts, Data & Databases

End of Term 2016 U.S. Government Web Archive

Posted on September 20, 2016

A collaborative group of librarians from the Library of Congress, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Internet Archive, and several other archives and universities have teamed up on a project to preserve public United States Government websites …

Posted in Data & Databases, Public Information

Harvard's Caselaw Access Project to Digitize and Make Available Millions of Pages of Case Law

Posted on September 1, 2016

If you haven’t yet heard about Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project to digitize millions of pages of case law and make it freely available online, check out this story in Bostonomix. “We want the law, as …

Posted in Data & Databases

Historic Federal Register Volumes Now Freely Available Online

Posted on June 21, 2016

The Law Library of Congress has recently released a full collection of historical volumes of the Federal Register online.  The collection begins with the first Federal Register in 1936 and contains all daily volumes through …

Posted in Data & Databases, Legislation & Regs

Article: High Court Won’t Hear Copyright Challenge to Google Books

Posted on April 18, 2016

According to the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the Supreme Court has denied cert to Authors Guild, et al. v. Google, Inc., in which the Authors Guild and individual writers argued that Google engaged in …

Posted in Books, Data & Databases, Digitization

Dive into Criminal Justice Data and Statistics with "Hall of Justice"

Posted on February 4, 2016

Stats and data about any aspect of the legal world have often been notoriously difficult to track down. I know that when I am asked a question about stats at the reference desk, I always …

Posted in Data & Databases, Public Information, Tools
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