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Starting in October, audio of Wisconsin Supreme Court rules hearings is now available on the Internet. The Wisconsin Court System site offers both live proceedings and an online audio archive. Rules petitions are also available in PDF format. Source: The Third Branch

It’s no secret that URLs sometimes don’t work. Maybe you wrote it down incorrectly or perhaps the URL has been changed since you received the link. Sometimes long URLs break when sent via email. Never fear. With a little knowledge of how URLs work, you can often deconstruct the URL to find the page you …

From the West elert press release: Documents in Sequence price cancellation In September 2004 we announced that customers who have selected the transactional pricing method would be charged for every document retrieved via the Documents in Sequence feature. That price change has since been canceled. You and your patrons won’t be charged for any documents …

One of the most enjoyable blogs I read is Odd Wisconsin from the Wisconsin State Historical Society. This posting was too good not to share. The Political Dustbin Dateline: Madison, sometime in the early ’90’s (1890’s, that is). This past week we’ve witnessed more than the usual amount of partisan nastiness here in Madison, as …

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission estimates that 27.3 million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, including 9.9 million last year–and the number of new cases appears to be growing. Forbes.com presents Seven Ways To Foil ID Thieves Source: TVC Alert

As reported earlier, the Wisconsin Statutes and Annotations, Wisconsin Constitution and Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules on the Revisor of Statutes Bureau website now contain links from annotations to cited cases on the Wisconsin on the Wisconsin Court System website. And, according to Bruce Hoesly, Deputy Revisor of Statutes, WisLaw CD-Roms also have the case links …

How likely are you to recognize a phishing scam when you see one? [What’s phishing?] Test your skills with MailFrontier’s Phishing IQ Test. You’ll be presented with ten email messages – all of which were actually received by real people – and you determine whether they are legitimate or a fraud. Source: inter alia

Big news from Google – they have just launched a search service called Google Scholar which searches the Web “specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports” Where available, some sources are labeled by type, such as “book,” “citation,” “pdf,” etc. Book results offer the option of a “Library …

From The Wisconsin Lawyer – Legal News & Trends: The State Law Library’s After Hours Service, available by subscription to all Wisconsin-licensed lawyers, allows access to the library from 7 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. weekdays, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends. Regular library hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. …

The November 2004 issue of The Wisconsin Lawyer has an excellent guide on when it is appropriate to cite to an unpublished opinion. In their article, Citing Unpublished Opinions in Wisconsin State and Federal Tribunals, authors Mia Sefarbi & Kira Zaporski have compiled a list of relevant court rules and standards and a chart on …