We told you about our nice free case law summaries. Then we blogged that we were adding more. Well, today, my friends, we are done. We have all fifty states! Now you can sign up and receive free summaries of court opinions for all state supreme courts, the US Supreme…
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Tomorrow is national Take Your Dog to Work Day®, a phrase trademarked by a pet sitters' industry group. At Justia, however, every day is take your dog to work day, where the in-house dogs keep hounding us for more free law. They: Help us chase laws Sit for Supreme Court…
Note: I wrote this post to help explain the concept of metadata and how it can be used to improve free primary law sources. This post focuses on statutes, next week I will discuss applying these principles to opinions. The simplest way to explain metadata is “data about the data.”…
Continuing and growing our effort to provide legal research tools for people interested in laws and legal issues throughout Latin America, I'd like to introduce Justia Brasil (or "Brazil" para los norteamericanos). This is Justia's first website in Brasilian Portuguese.
Folks, it's pledge week here at the Justia Blog. Want to support free law? Donate to the Cornell Legal Information Institute! The LII was the first law site on the Internet. It is dedicated to educating citizens and providing them with access to the laws that govern the United States.…
The Bluebook is one of those fixtures—dare I say institutions—that professors, judges, and practitioners love to hate. Judge Posner recently (and famously, as his article "went viral" as much as one can among the online legal community) criticized The Bluebook as "a monstrous growth, remote from the functional need for…
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Illinois announced that it will adopt a vendor-neutral citation system. According to the press release, the official citation of Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court opinions will change to a public-domain numbering and paragraph scheme. Concurrently, the Illinois Supreme Court will also be discontinuing official…
The Administrative Office of the US Courts issued a press release last week announcing that a "New Pilot Project Will Enhance Public Access to Federal Court Opinions." According to the statement, select federal appellate and district courts will make their published opinions available on FDSys, as "FDSys can provide the…
It’s that time, dear Justia readers, when we review some monthly lists. Here’s the scoop on April’s highest scoring lawyers on Justia Answers, along with a look at which Onward blog and Facebook posts readers viewed the most. Justia’s Top 10 Legal Answerers for April 2011…
CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) introduced the Free Law Reporter this week. The FLR is a database housing published (official) legal opinions that provides a simple search interface for research. According to CALI, “The goal of FLR is to develop a freely available, unencumbered law reporter that is capable of…