Sheba, Justia’s original HugPug, turns seven today! For those of you lucky enough to have dogs around while you work, you know how wonderful it is to have these four-footed friends at any office. Sheba, and fellow Justia pugs, Rio and Belle, along with other doggie friends Tank (aka, Le…
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Today is Valentine's Day, and we'd like to take this opportunity to write our valentine to the free legal information projects we love. We've talked about all of these projects before, but on this day that celebrates love, it seems a perfect time to praise them again. Law.gov and Public.Resource.Org…
We're guessing that Sony has its PS3 controllers in a twist today. Sony has been on a legal warpath against PS3 hackers, who figured out and shared the game maker's jailbreak code. But all that changed yesterday. That's when Long Island geek Travis La Marr tweeted Sony's PS3 jail break…
It's February 1st, and we at Justia are happy to report that in January members of our Onward and Facebook communities not only stopped by to visit us, you also liked us, and sometimes, you really, really liked us. Our heavy hitter in January on the Onward Blog in terms…
Getting Organized Over Organized Crime
Comedians, satirists, and Fake Steve’s everywhere, take note: under California's new anti-Internet impersonation law, you want to make sure that you show your intent to tickle your reader's funny bones on the Web. That's because under California Penal Code Section 528.5, someone who "knowingly and without consent" uses the Internet to "credibly impersonate[] another…
2010 is almost gone--it's been a very eventful year here at Justia. Indulge us while we review this year's contributions to legal information on the internet. And, we are getting plans ready for 2011--if you have any ideas about things you'd like to see at Justia.com, please let us know…
It's been a fun month at Justia. We launched our new Justia Legal Answers service, and we've been hard at work adding free law (shhh, we'll tell you all about it soon). And of course, we're still blogging and Facebooking [ed: not a word] away. Here's a sampling of the…
Free Law - Justia truly believes that the law belongs to the people. It was created for us, by us. That is why we are thankful for Law.Gov, the brainchild of passionate Government open source advocate Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org. Google - We are thankful for Google and its continued…
On Friday, many law school graduates were eagerly waiting for their July 2010 New York Bar exam results. The New York State Board of Law Examiners (‘BOLE’) promised law students that “the results of the July 2010 bar examination are being emailed to candidates beginning on November 5, 2010,” but…