Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
There is a good bit of speculation about whether or not this story is true. From BoingBoing: A Massachussetts paper is reporting that a college student was visited by Department of Homeland Security agents in October after requesting a copy of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung — better known as “The Little Red Book” — …
I’ve just updated my list of Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations. There are now 91 such blogs! I’m so pleased that law librarians are making this technology their own.
The Public Access to Legal Information Committee of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin (LLAW) has just released the results of a year-long study of the public access to legal information and assistance in Wisconsin. This 40-page study compares access levels across libraries and courts, as well as noting success stories in the area of …
The December 2005 issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer is now available on the WisBar site. Highlights include articles on quantitative methodology, international law and the state bar annual report.
PDF for Lawyers reports on another case of too much information being released when metadata is not wiped from a PDF file. Yet another PDF metadata snafu — this time by the White House! In this article by PDF Zone’s Don Fluckinger, we learn that the 38-page Iraq policy document posted as a PDF shows …
From Odd Wisconsin, one of my favorite blogs, comes Weird Wisconsin Names. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, one of the most popular features of it’s new online Dictionary of Wisconsin History is the origin of place names, complete with maps and aerial photos. Cuba City, for example, was originally named Yuba — from “You …
Dave Fishel over at PDF for Lawyers has shared a useful tip on how to create a PDF of an entire Website or selected portions of it. Why would you want to do this?, he asks. You may be doing research on a company for a takeover bid. The work requires you to spend many …
Around this time of year, people often think of donating to charities. Choosing worthy ones, however, can be difficult. GuideStar, from Philanthropic Research, Inc., can help you and your clients make more educated decisions. This Web site provides information about the operations and finances of more than 620,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. With …
“Browse freely but carry a SpoofStick” is the slogan for Corestreet’s free browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites. The heart of most “phishing” schemes, spoofed websites are usually made to look like well known, branded sites, such as citibank.com. The phony URLs often closely resemble the real thing. Phishing for the “accidental …
The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance has compiled an educational guide to administrative rule making in Wisconsin. Administrative rules are reported in the Wisconsin Administrative Code. “The state constitution grants the legislature the power to enact laws. The legislature, in turn, has delegated to state agencies the authority to promulgate administrative rules, which have the power of …