Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
On March 22, Governor Doyle signed Senate Bill 244, creating 2005 Wisconsin Act 174, which provides for supervised electronic communication between a parent and child after a divorce or legal separation, if allowed by the court. For more, see the article in JS Online. Some family law experts said the Wisconsin legislation wasn’t necessary because …
WisPolitics reports that Governor Doyle signed into law consumer protection legislation known as the Register of Deeds Privacy Act (2005 Wisconsin Act 139). The act reduces public access to Social Security numbers on documents filed with the state’s seventy-two registers of deeds offices. The bill uses a two-pronged approach for discouraging the practice of placing …
West has released Graphical Statutes for the USCA, offering “a visual timeline of a statute’s past, present and future, with links to all underlying documents.” Like graphical KeyCite, this flowcart-like display really helps me understand the big picture.
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Federal Register, our Documents Assistant, Margaret Booth, got a little creative. “In its first year back in 1936, the Register printed 2,620 pages. Today, nearly that many pages are published each week. Approximately 100 million Register documents are viewed annually over the Internet through GPO Access.” Source: ResourceShelf
The National Conference of State Legislatures has launched its first podcast. The Conference Report will cover the latest trends and developments from America’s state legislatures. Source: MyNCSL News, March 10, 2006