Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Starting in November, the url THOMAS.gov will be redirected to Congress.gov. THOMAS.gov will remain accessible from the Congress.gov homepage through late 2014. If you are unfamiliar with Congress.gov and want to learn more, trainings are available Oct. 17 and Nov. 14. Complete this form to register. For more information about the transition, see In Custodia …
On Sept 26th, On This Day in Wisconsin History reported: On this date [in 1833], Indian tribes including the Ojibwe, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ottawa, and Sauk ceded land to the government, including areas around Milwaukee, especially to the south and east of the city. The ceded land included much of what is today John Michael …
The Legislative Reference Bureau has announced that it has completed scanning the Wisconsin Administrative Code archive back to 1956 (vol 1 of the Administrative Register). The Code does not appear in it’s entirety for these archived editions. Rather, each year contains a list of the Administrative Code Registers for each month. The chapters that were …
2013 WI Act 5, which modifies the establishment of a publication date for acts, quietly went into effect yesterday. According to the Wisconsin Legislative Council the act does several things: Removes the authority of the Secretary of State to designate the date of publication Instead, under the Act, the date of publication of an act …
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has recently published a brief summarizing the service of Wisconsin women legislators. Section I lists all women members alphabetically by house and indicates their party, district, occupation, and terms of service. Section II lists the members serving in each session.
Congrats to WisconsinEye on its fifth anniversary. WisconsinEye brings gavel-to-gavel, C-SPAN-style nonpartisan coverage of state government and politics to Wisconsin.
The Law Library is pleased to announce that we have recently subscribed to a wonderful new database for federal legislative history research called ProQuest Legislative Insight. It is available to UW Madison students, faculty and staff, or to anyone who visits a campus library. Legislative Insight contains PDFs of numerous publications generated in the course …
The 2011-2012 State of Wisconsin Blue Book is now available in print and online from the Legislative Reference Bureau. According to the LRB, “the Blue Book is the primary one-volume reference source about the state, documenting the organization of the state’s three branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial).” Each edition of the Blue Book …
Bruce Hoesly, Revising Attorney/Code Editor at the Legislative Reference Bureau, informed me of some very exciting changes to the Wisconsin legislative and administrative databases on the Legislature’s website. Note that the link on the Legislature’s homepage that used to say “Searchable Infobases” now says “Documents.” This change reflects the move to the new HTML view …
The Wisconsin Legislature has officially released the dramatically improved web search platform for the Wisconsin Statutes. It has been available in beta for a while (see my earlier post about it), but now it is the default platform. According to a press release: The new search engine, which is easier to use, will present more …