Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
There is an article in Friday’s Miami Herald entitled, “Inmates Sue for Access to Law Library.” This is especially interesting in light of the struggles of our own Dane County Law Library/Legal Research Center. From the article: A pair of Broward inmates asked an appeals court Thursday to stop Sheriff Ken Jenne from closing down …
From: Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites “From the New York Law Journal, via law.com, comes Written on the Wind, an article urging caution when citing to the Internet in legal documents.” According to the author, “The Internet is the proverbial river that you can never step in twice. Its fluid nature makes it frustrating when a cited …
From the NY Times article: “The Central Intelligence Agency’s decision to delete extensive sections of a Senate report on faulty Iraq intelligence has so outraged Senator Trent Lott that Mr. Lott, the former majority leader, is calling for an independent commission to govern classified information.”
The Wisconsin State Law Library has just published the July 2004 edition of WSLL @ Your Service. Highlights include: – Tech Tip in Brief: Recovering Files After Microsoft Word Crashes – WSLL Web: The Lighter Side of Google – Learn @ The Law Library Contact Connie Von Der Heide to be placed on the mailing …
“For those users of the Blogger weblog system, who also love Google, you might be interested in visiting the Google Search Toolbar website for information on the new (beta) version of the toolbar. If you install this version of the Google Toolbar, you will find a number of new features, including a popup blocker and …
It appears the two nice sites devoted to Blawgs will be shutting down: Detod Blawg Search and Daily Whirl Source: Netlawblog
“The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau is now offering a wide array of RSS feeds. The feeds are organized by topic, and range from state budget briefs, to general legislative news to specific feeds covering a category like K-12 education developments.” An excellent way to monitor new LRB publications! Source: Blawg
I’ve recently updated my guide to Sources of Legal Information for the Wisconsin Attorney. Organized by type of law (case law; citators; legislation; regulations; law review/legal journal articles), the guide shows where such information can be found electronically and at what cost. Emphasis is placed on sources of free information from libraries in Wisconsin. A …
NationMaster is an excellent new site that compiles a myriad of statistics by nation and displays them in graphically in maps and charts. And it’s free! From NationMaster: “NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF …
NYT Article – You’ve Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It) “Last week a federal appeals court ruled that federal wiretap laws do not apply to e-mail messages if they are stored, even for a millisecond, on the computers of Internet providers.” Source: New York Times, July 6, 2004