Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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The Marquette University Law School Faculty Blog features an interesting take on the debate over the usability of statutory history. The current debate centers on whether reliance on statutory history is consistent with a plain meaning analysis. Justice Roggensack has asserted, “statutory history is part of a plain meaning analysis because it is part of …
From Heidi Yelk’s Tech Tip in Brief in the latest WSLL @ Your Service: In case you missed it (as I did), Wisbar.org, the State Bar of Wisconsin’s website, now provides full text searching of Wisconsin Lawyer issues dating back to 1997. This can be a quick way to locate full text feature articles as …
Nicholas from Justia just let me know that case number searching is now available on Justia’s Docket Search. He was responding to an earlier WisBlawg post which indicated that case number searching was not available. His comment appears below: I just wanted to make one slight comment on Justia having no case number searching. Actually …
It’s time to nominate your favorite legal support staff for the 2009 Wisconsin Law Journal Unsung Heroes awards. Categories include: Secretary Paralegal Law Librarian Administrator Human Resources IT Specialists Marketers Court Staff For more information, see the Wisconsin Law Journal website. The nomination form is available there. The awards ceremony will be held November 13, …
In response to rising demand and rising cost, FreeCourtDockets has set a limit on the number of free dockets that users can obtain daily. From a recent email: The word has been quickly spreading about FreeCourtDockets, many people have been granted invite codes, and our costs have quickly risen. To manage these costs we have …
From The Third Branch, newsletter of the Federal Courts: The Judicial Conference has issued a series of “suggested practices” to assist courts in the use of Internet materials in opinions. The recommendations follow a pilot project conducted by circuit librarians who captured and preserved webpages cited in opinions over a six-month period…. In approving those …
From the latest edition of the University of Wisconsin Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series in SSRN. Administrative Procedures and Bureaucratic Performance: Is Federal Rulemaking ‘Ossified’? by Jason W. Yackee, University of Wisconsin Law School and Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin – Madison – Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison …
3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a good post on using LinkedIn for competitive intelligence. An earlier post describes how Twitter can be use as well.
From the Press Release: London, 13 July 2009. Today sees the launch of a prestigious new legal Journal which aims to bring the highest standards to bear in analysis and comment on all aspects of Free and Open Source software. The ‘International Free and Open Source Software Law Review’ (IFOSSLR) is a peer reviewed biannual …