Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
There is an article in the May 28th edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal on the proposed elimination of the Revisor of Statutes Bureau. If passed, the workload would be split amongst the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) and the Joint Legislative Council (JLC) – with no additional personnel to handle the increased workload. According to …
GPO has announced that authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress are now available on GPO Access as a searchable and browseable application in beta form. GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic… The Public and Private Laws …
Although the site still says it’s under construction, WisconsinEye is scheduled to broadcast its first live gavel-to-gavel Internet coverage of the state Assembly and Senate at 11 a.m. today. According to JSOnline PoliticsWatch: WisconsinEye has also finalized agreements for digital channels to be available on the Charter and TimeWarner cable system in Wisconsin, said WisconsinEye …
In an amendment to the proposed 2007 state budget (Senate Bill 40), it appears that the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes Bureau may be eliminated as an agency. The amendment (LRB b 0074/2) transfers most of the statutory functions to Legislative Reference Bureau except for the Administrative Register which will go to the Legislative Council. The …
According to JS Online, the Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill (AB 217) which would allow cell phone users and small businesses to add their phone numbers to the state’s do-not-call list.
From JS Online: Stay up to speed on what’s going on in the state Capitol with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Capitol bureau’s weekly podcast. Steve Walters, Stacy Forster and Patrick Marley discuss the top issues of the week and talk to the lawmakers, government officials and others making and shaping public policy.
From Library Boy: LEGISinfo, the Library of Parliament’s legislative research website, has started offering RSS feeds since the beginning of this parliamentary session to help people track bills before the House of Commons and the Senate. In the lefthand column on the LEGISinfo home page, simply click on any of the links to Senate or …
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being authenticated. In short, “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?” The answer (from the executive summary): A …
Justia just keeps getting better and better. The latest addition, Regulation Tracker allows you to search, browse, and track Federal Register documents. Not only is there a RSS feed for every agency, but you can customize them by type of document or keyword. I just had someone ask me whether a product like this existed …
A few weeks ago, I reported that the UW Law Library will be hosting on our web site Wisconsin Legislative Council documents back to 1996. According to our Head of Cataloging, Cindy May, these documents are now available via the MadCat Library Catalog. They can be searched in MadCat by author, title, subject, series, or …