Category «Legal Research»

Extras – The PACER U.S. Party/Case Index: What it does and doesn’t (quite) do

The PACER U.S. Party/Case Index: What it does and doesn’t (quite) do By Roger Vicarius Skalbeck

Roger Vicarius Skalbeck is currently the Library Systems Specialist at the Washington, DC firm of Williams and Connolly. Roger worked previously in Minneapolis as a patent and trademark researcher, and he has also worked at general practice firms in Minneapolis and Chicago. Current activities include attempts to come up with creative solutions to technology-based legal research problems, from a librarians point of view.

Subjects: Court Resources, Extras

ResearchWire – Litigator’s Internet Resource Guide: Points in Dispute

Return to Library ResearchWire Litigator’s Internet Resource Guide: Points In Dispute By Genie Tyburski

Genie Tyburski is the Research Librarian for Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the editor of The Virtual Chase:TM A Research Site for Legal Professionals.

(Posted December 1, 1997; Archived January 1, 1998) Then came pleas and rejoinders, rebutters, demurrers, Such as Chitty would plough into Richard Roe’s furrows; — Cross questions, and very cross answers, to suit — So the gist of the case was the point in dispute.

— John Brainard, “Scire Facias” in Poems of John Brainard (1841)

Subjects: Court Resources, ResearchWire

CongressLine – FDA Reform – Prototype for a Partisan Congress

Return to Library CongressLine FDA Reform – Prototype for a Partisan Congress

by Carol M. Morrissey

Carol M. Morrissey has been the Legislative Specialist for the Washington, D. C. office of Chicago’s Sidley & Austin for 11 years. She is a lawyer and legislative expert who has also authored a Congressional update column for the last 4 years.

(Posted December 1, 1997; Archived January 1, 1998)

Subjects: CongressLine, Food & Drug Law

Features – Electronic Court Filing

Return to Library Electronic Court Filing By Bradley J. Hillis

Bradley J. Hillis holds MA and JD degrees from the University of Washington. He is the editor of the forthcoming, “Internet Experiments in Electronic Court Filing,” and is a representative of the courts to the Washington Digital Signature Implementation Task Force. His previous Internet law articles have appeared on the Web at Villanova Institute for Information Law and Policy.

Subjects: Courts & Technology, Electronic Court Filing, Features

CongressLine – Internet Taxation: Caution – Falling Rock Zone Ahead

CongressLine Internet Taxation: Caution – Falling Rock Zone Ahead

by Carol M. Morrissey

Carol M. Morrissey has been the Legislative Specialist for the Washington, D. C. office of Chicago’s Sidley & Austin for 11 years. She is a lawyer and legislative expert who has also authored a Congressional update column for the last 4 years.

(Posted July 22, 1997; Archived November 1, 1997)

Subjects: CongressLine, Cyberlaw Legislation, Tax