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…
Today, the Food and Drug Administration published its final rule on Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, 76 Fed. Reg. 36628 (June 22, 2011). In general, the FDA opted for a shock-and-awe approach by requiring graphic images with accompanying warning statements on cigarette packaging. Currently, cigarette packages must bear…
In Mexico, a common line of thought is that projects funded with government money must be a public good. However, Mexican copyright laws challenged this perception after the government-funded Enciclomedia project failed due to fuzzy contracts, political conflicts and a lack of infrastructure. Initially, the goal of Enciclomedia was to…
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.”…
In an enlightening decision, a federal judge ruled this week that Las Vegas-based copyright litigation enterprise Righthaven had no legal basis to sue one defendant, Democratic Underground, because it didn't even own the copyright it was suing over. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Roger Hunt was particularly peeved to learn…
On Monday, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, in Los Angeles, made an unusual ruling for a bankruptcy court: it declared Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional. In that case, a legally married same-sex couple in California tried to file a joint petition…
Ballot initiatives in California run the gamut and ask the electorate to cast their vote, yea or nay, on a wide range of issues. Recently, there has been a lot of press about one specific initiative we went to the polls to vote on (and passed) in 2008 - Proposition…
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.
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