Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In honor of National Library Week, two database providers, Gale & Xrefer are offering free access to libraries during the week of April 10th-16th. Gale: Multiple databases available for week including LegalTrac, InfoTrac, Health & Wellness Resource Center, Business & Company Resource Center, Associations Unlimited, etc. To sign up, visit Gale on April 10th. (Many …
From Law.com: The Scalia doll is the latest in a series of highly prized, limited-edition dolls created by Green Bag, the irreverent law review published at George Mason University School of Law. Subscribers to the law review are the only ones who get the dolls, though they have been known to draw bids of hundreds …
The following are newly issued reports from the Wisconsin Legislative Council and Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau: Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights Law (Legislative Council) Wisconsin’s Transportation Network Infrastructure (Legislative Council) Recodification of Chapter 45, Veterans (Legislative Council) 2004-05 Estimated State Support for Education (Fiscal Bureau)
As reported earlier, the Wisconsin State Bar Web site redesign is now official. It features a nice design and useful links. Read more.
On April 4th, the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals will be converting to a new new case management database. This will result in the following changes to the WSCCA.i database (Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Case Access system) and the Supreme Court opinion search. Opinion Search: Docket number format for Supreme …
In his article, Free Court Case Docket Monitoring, Paul Bush of Legal Dockets Online offers tips on how to automatically monitor court dockets at no cost. The article covers Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts, US Supreme, State (including Wisconsin) and Local Courts.
From Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week introduced Hospital Compare, a Web site that provides healthcare consumers with information on how well the hospitals in their area care for adult patients with certain medical conditions. The site is intended to help consumers compare the quality of care hospitals …
Shortly after Yahoo increased storage size of their free email accounts to 1 gigabyte, Google announced that it is increasing Gmail storage to 2 gigabytes. That’s a lot of email! Sources: Findlaw Tools of the Trade & Google Weblog
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau is doing some awesome things with RSS. The latest is LRB Podcasts, or audio posts. So far, there are six posts, but look for more with the RSS feed. Arden Rice discusses the Tap the Power relating to Tourism and Economic Development Robin Kite discusses the Public Trust Doctrine of …
The City of Madison is introducing, in beta testing mode, impressive database called the City’s Legislative Information Center. The database provides “quick and easy public access” to the city’s legislative documents. The Legislative Files Search section includes ordinances, resolutions, appointments along with their status (passed, failed, referred) and date introduced. The Meeting Agendas & Minutes …