Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin State Bar has recently published a newly updated edition of the Wisconsin Guide to Citation. The new eighth edition reflects recent changes made to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, now in its 20th edition. New developments discussed in this edition of the Wisconsin Guide include: A new section on how to …
Today, the Third District Court of Appeals affirmed that library patrons do not have a constitutional right to view pornography on library computers. The defendant was cited for disorderly conduct in 2014 after a couple of students reported he was watching pornography on a UW Eau Claire library computer. From Channel 3000: Reidinger argued he …
According to a press release by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions , the DFI will join the state Secretary of State’s office in issuing apostilles and authentications – certificates needed to verify a document for use in a foreign country. From the release: Businesses and individuals at times need to authenticate the origin of …
Did you know that the UW Law Library offers research guides on numerous legal topics? Here’s a quick infographic that I created with Easel.ly with a few highlights.
Here is the latest faculty and staff scholarship from the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Papers series found on SSRN. Second-Order Participation in Administrative Law Miriam Seifter, University of Wisconsin Law School White Slavery in the Northwoods: Early U.S. Anti-Sex Trafficking and Its Continuing Relevance to Trafficking Reform Bonnie J. Shucha, University …
Happy Birthday to the Legal Information & Technology eJournal which just concluded its fifth year. This SSRN eJournal, curated by Randy Diamond and Lee Peoples, provides a platform for the dissemination of law library scholarship. Beginning this year, the journal, which has heretofore been sponsored by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American …
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Beginning in January, the Dane County Clerk of Court’s office will convert to electronic record-keeping. All records must be filed electronically or scanned in on receipt. However, print copies may be obtained at the usual statutory rate of $1.25 per page using the office’s public terminals. According to the Isthmus, Dane County had already been …
Yesterday, a federal three-judge panel unanimously decided that a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s last legislative redistricting plan as an example of “extreme partisan gerrymandering” may proceed. According to the Wisconsin State Journal: “Although we believe that plaintiffs face significant challenges in prevailing on their claims, we conclude that plaintiffs’ complaint is sufficient to state a …
As with all careers, there are times when lawyers must question their professional choices. I think that the attorneys involved in this deposition with the man who ‘follows the chicken’ most certainly had a few of those moments, though they probably got a few laughs out of it as well. The New York Times, …