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Google’s new look for Advanced Search
If you didn’t notice, Google has changed the look of their Advanced Search screen. I wrote a while back about the importance of utilizing an engine’s advanced search option. By creating your query within the structure of the advanced search, a researcher can immediately eliminate irrelevant results. Google’s new look makes Boolean searching much easier. […]
Resources help identify legislative intent
Identifying legislative intent is often a challenge. Occasionally the courts will discuss what they believe the legislature was thinking when drafting a statute. Absent that discussion, Wisconsin researchers follow several steps hoping to understand the thought process behind the creation of a specific state statute section. Researchers sift through drafting records, LRB analysis, legislative coun[...]
MU Sports Law
With everyone paying attention to Wisconsin sports this week, I had to highlight the Sports Law Institute at Marquette Law School. The website offers a collection of useful sports law links to online periodicals, research sites, news sources, and organizations. The publications page offers links to several sports related articles from both the online version […]
Efficiency through browser shortcuts
I was giving a presentation the other day and wanted to get to my Favorites. Instead of using my mouse, I used the "Control-I" shortcut. A member of the audience asked what I did, and I explained the shortcut. No one in the audience was aware of it. I then asked who used the "Control-F" […]
Maritime at Milwaukee Public
I was recently on the Milwaukee Public Library website and noticed something new. It is a database called Project Shipshape. I’ve known about the library’s great Maritime collection, but not familiar with this project. I spoke to a Humanities librarian at Milwaukee Public Library and found out that Project Shipshape went online in January. So, […]
National Center for State Courts
The National Center for State Courts is another one of those websites where it would be impossible to summarize all their features in just one post. The amount of data available on this site is wonderful. One item I seem to access each year is the “Future Trends in State Courts” report. It always contains […]
New Look for K&L Gates E-Discovery Database
K&L Gates’ Electronic Discovery Law blog focuses on the evolving landscape of electronic discovery. Posts address “legal issues, news and best practices relating to the discovery of electronically stored information.” One item that sets them apart is their case database, which received a “fresh new look” this week. The searchable database contains over 900 e-disco[...]
Online resources for going green
Many businesses and municipalities are striving to “go green.” The focus of this effort can range from reducing waste, to utilizing energy efficient resources, to constructing buildings using new technologies. Some companies have begun by encouraging two-sided printing, using recycling bins, turning off desktops at night, and subsidizing the use of public transportation. Federal, state[...]
Looking for Government Publications?
Okay, you have heard it before – starting with the right online tool will save time. One such tool when looking for Federal publications is the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. The Government Printing Office (GPO) maintains the site. They describe the catalog as “the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for […]
EPA Adds New Features
In January, the EPA updated their “Laws, Regulations, Guidance, and Dockets” page. The site “has been enhanced with easily accessible ways to search and comment on EPA regulations and significant guidance documents, and to learn how environmental regulations are written. The site also includes new sections for finding regulations and related documents, plus regulatory history, [&[...]
The Treasure that is the Wisconsin State Law Library
The Wisconsin State Law Library just released their February 2008 newsletter. In a look back at 2007, Jane Colwin, State Law Librarian, highlights several items. One interesting fact is that the WSLL website received “over a half million hits – with Legal Topics A-Z being the most popular destination.” Were you one of them? I […]
FAA site tracks flight delays
During the recent winter storm I dreamed of being in Hawaii or the Bahamas. However, instead of scheduling flights, I shoveled a lot of snow. Throughout the week, I did keep my eye on several airports since I have family members traveling throughout the United States. One site I use to accomplish this task is […]
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- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
- RNC Final Day: Trump accepts GOP Nomination
- Wisconsin officials intervene in Planned Parenthood action
- 7th Circuit adopts modifications to Rules 31, 34, 40, 47 and 60
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property
