You never know what you’re going to turn up in the Odd Wisconsin Archives. I had to laugh at the story about the “cache of decaying venison and sturgeon” stored a basement room of the …
Legislation & Regs
Wisconsin Legislative Session Wrap-up
From today’s Wheeler Report: The Assembly adjourned about 3:45 a.m. today, ending the floor sessions scheduled for 2009. Regular sessions will resume January 19, 2010. However, legislative leaders are expected to call lawmakers back to …
LRB Launches WI Legislative Oral History Project
The Legislative Reference Bureau has begun work on the Wisconsin Legislative Oral History Project. The project will include recorded interviews with former members of the Wisconsin Legislature, conducted by John Powell, the former Capitol reporter …
Bills Would Ban Texting While Driving
Up for debate today in the Senate is a bill that would crack down on text messaging while driving. Wisconsin Senate Bill 103 would ban text messaging for drivers under the age of 18. [see …
Bill Would Require DNA Test Upon Arrest
Everyone arrested on suspicion of a serious crime in Wisconsin would be required to give a DNA sample under a bill introduced earlier this month. Wisconsin Senate Bill 336 requires law enforcement agencies to collect …
Credit Card Act To Bring Changes – Good and Bad
Channel 3000.com has a good summary of the changes consumers can expect under the new Credit Card Act of 2009. The Good: “It’s not going to be quite as easy to get into trouble as …
Wisconsin Eye No Longer Available on Time Warner Cable
From the Wisconsin State Journal: The public affairs network Wisconsin Eye said it would end its service to Time Warner customers on Monday night at midnight because the company won’t pay for it. Time Warner …
Bill Would Provide Funding For and Change Name of Law Library of Congress
From <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12948145"The Salt Lake Tribune: The House overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday named in honor of former Utah Rep. Bill Orton that would boost funding to the Law Library of Congress… “Bill Orton was …
Budget May be Republished due to Veto Error
“The Legislature is looking at republishing the state budget without one of Gov. Jim Doyle’s partial vetoes because the veto violated the state constitution,” reports JS Online. Legislative leaders did not want to try to …
Refocusing the Debate over Statutory History
The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog features an interesting take on the debate over the usability of statutory history. The current debate centers on whether reliance on statutory history is consistent with a plain …