Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
State Representative Louis J. Molepske, Jr. re-introduced the Open Government Act, legislation which attempts to clarify when bill drafts should be made available to the public. From a media release from Rep. Molepske: This bill sets up a process whereby the official’s desire to keep bill drafts confidential is balanced against the public’s expectation to …
State representative Scott Suder is sponsoring a bi-partisan bill that will allow courts to make repeat domestic abusers wear a satellite tracking device. Read more from the Marshfield News Herald. In a time of major budget reform and a looming deficit, Suder said it’s key that the perpetrators pay for the device and any other …
WisconsinEye has recently released WisEye Alert! Subscribe to WisEye Alert and receive a daily email with schedule and programming highlights for the WisconsinEye channel and website. A RSS feed is also available.
Updated: 7/22/2013 I’ve recently been made aware of the State of Wisconsin Administrative Rules Home Page. Wisconsin state agencies value your involvement in agency decision-making and have created this website to make it easy for you to monitor and participate in their rulemaking. At this site, you can: Search for rules View the status of …
In her Wisconsin Law Journal blog, Law Librarian Bev Butula highlights some changes to Milwaukee’s Legistar service, now called the Legislative Research Center. “If you are not familiar with Legistar, it is a system to help manage the flow of documents through the municipal legislative process. Obviously, a great help to the Clerk’s office. However, …
HeinOnline has announced that it will soon be adding Subject Compilations of State Laws as an a-la-carte library module. According to the HeinOnline Weblog This database contains references to more than 17,000 sources of 50-state surveys published in law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal and state government publications, and loose-leaf services. Researchers …
Justia reports that Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Committee has unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes. See more about the decision, including video, from PublicResource.org. For more on the ORS copyright claims, see my earlier posts from April and May .
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has recently introduced RSS feeds for the US Code. Feeds are available by title only. Source: Law Librarian Blog
Boing Boing reports that the situation regarding the contested copyright claim for Oregon Revised Statutes has reached an impasse. Oregon says they are copyright-able; Justia and Public.Resource.Org, who plan to post them online, say they aren’t. From the attorney representing Justia and Public.Resource.Org: My clients respectfully cannot agree to the Public License. First, and most …
The State of Oregon has declared that the Oregon Revised Statutes are copyrighted material and has sent cease and desist letters to sites like Justia and Public.Resource.Org that have been posting copies of the laws. Carl Malamud has issued a response which he has posted on Scribd, along with related documents. Source: BoingBoing