From the Chicago Tribune: Six finalists from a field of 11 applicants have been selected to fill a pending vacancy on a federal appeals court which handles appeals from Wisconsin and other states. Two of …
Free Case Law Now Available on Google Scholar
Wow – big news last night from Google: Free case law is now available in Google Scholar! There isn’t much description yet from Google, but Internet For Lawyers has a nice run down of the …
Something Rotten at the State Capitol – Literally!
You never know what you’re going to turn up in the Odd Wisconsin Archives. I had to laugh at the story about the “cache of decaying venison and sturgeon” stored a basement room of the …
Revised Google Settlement on Digital Books
Google has filed a modified version of their controversial books settlement in federal court last Friday. From the New York Times: The settlement, of a 2005 lawsuit over Google’s ambitious plan to digitize books from …
Article: After Supreme Court clerkship, Klingele back teaching at UW Law School
UW Madison News has a wonderful profile of Cecelia Klingele about her experience as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens. A 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, Cecelia …
Supreme Court Fantasy League
FantasySCOTUS.net is a new fantasy league that allows you to compete against your friends, colleagues, and adversaries to determine who has the greatest ability to predict the outcome of Supreme Court cases. The site is …
A Facebook Alibi
There is an interesting story in this week’s New York Times about a robbery suspect cleared because of his Facebook alibi. His defense lawyer, Robert Reuland, told a Brooklyn assistant district attorney, Lindsay Gerdes, about …
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium Now Offers Text EBooks
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium has recently added text eBooks to their Digital Download Center, which already contains digital audio books. See the screen shot below. No eBook reader is required to view the eBooks …
Federal Court Rules that Twitter Use in Courtroom Violates Fed. R. Crim. P.
From Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch: In United States v. Shelnutt (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2), a federal court in Georgia ruled that Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure prohibits “tweeting” from the courtroom …
Google Offers Free Wifi at Airports and Virgin American Flights During the Holidays
Traveling this holiday season? Then you may be very pleased to learn that Google is providing free WiFi at 47 participating airports and on every Virgin America flight. The service is already available and will …