Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In response to the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s decision to remove publications more than five years old from their Web site, the UW Law Library contacted the WLC and offered to host the documents on our Web site. WLC has accepted our offer and has provided us with the electronic publications back to 1996. We are …
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau publishes Governing Wisconsin, a series of brief discussions of how government works in Wisconsin. The guides explain such things as legislative rules, the Wisconsin Idea, forms of local government, open meeting law, redistricting, due process and more.
The library recently received a letter from the Wisconsin Legislative Council regarding their newly redesigned web site. It states: Due to fiscal and resource constraints, it is not feasible for this office to keep more than five years of publications on the site. All publications are kept permanently at the Wisconsin Legislative Council offices and …
I’ve just received word that as of the next update in March, the RSB is removing “that troubling ‘u’ word” from the online Wisconsin Statutes. Instead of noting that the text is unofficial, the PDF version will state that the text is not certified. The new footer will read as follows: Text from the 2005-06 …
I’ve just received word that as of the next update in March, the RSB is removing “that troubling ‘u’ word” from the online Wisconsin Statutes. Instead of noting that the text is unofficial, the PDF version will state that the text is not certified. The new footer will read as follows: Text from the 2005-06 …
Yesterday, I received this notice from the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service will be temporarily unavailable until January 4th, 2007. During this time the 2005-2006 legislative session data will be removed from the system. This includes proposals, committees, author information, etc, as well as your subscriptions for notifications to these items. …
There are two new Wisconsin Briefs available from the Legislative Reference Bureau. Brief 06-16, Wisconsin State Officers (November 2006) Brief 06-15, Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (October 2006)
According to Bruce Hoesly at the Revisor of Statutes Bureau, the print sets of the 2005-06 Wisconsin Statutes are scheduled to arrive at Document Sales in mid December. Prices have not been set yet. Write or call: Wisconsin Department of Administration Document Sales & Distribution Section 202 South Thornton Avenue P.O. Box 7840 Madison, WI …
On Wednesday evening, WI Deputy Revisor of Statutes, Bruce Hoesly gave an interesting presentation to the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin on the new RSB web site. Besides guiding us through the ins and outs of the new NXT interface for the Statutes and Administrative Code, he shared some other interesting information. Did you know?: …
Section 29.503(1)(d) of the Wisconsin statutes says quite clearly that many things, including crab, lobster, shrimp and a host of other delicacies, are in fact “seafood” under the law, “but not any canned fish or fish known as lutefisk.” From an interesting article in the Capital Times about how this law came to be. Nothing …