I was researching case law on state court websites recently and surveying what's out there and who's publishing what, when I encountered something totally surprising: public domain citation formats. I thought I was pretty up-to-date on free law and access to public information, but I had never heard of this. I…
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Divorce can be messy with the roller-coaster ride of emotions, the legal fight over finances, child support, and dog custody, as well as the divvying up of mementos from the marriage that did not last. For married couples who own a small business, a divorce can be particularly challenging. Even…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) promotes seat belt use across the country through its Click It or Ticket marketing campaign. This program seeks to increase seat belt use rates nationwide both through educational means and enforcement measures to reduce unrestrained passenger vehicle occupant fatalities. California has one of…
Last week marked the formal launch of a new Supreme Court of California resource center, SCOCAL (http://scocal.stanford.edu). SCOCAL is a joint project between Justia and our friends at the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford and Fastcase. There are lots of cool features in the site and, as ever, I…
British authorities arrested Wiikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Tuesday based upon a Swedish warrant charging him with sexually assaulting two women there over the summer. Assange's arrest, along with decisions by technology companies, finance companies, and banks to distance themselves from the document-leaking web site he founded, have…
O Tannenbaum, a public domain Christmas carol, extols the venerable Christmas tree. While the lyrics may be seasonal, the melody is truly evergreen, having been remixed into other popular songs, such as Michigan, My Michigan. Now, you can hum the tune 365 days a year. Go Blue! In the spirit…
As the holidays get into full swing and folks begin to make their lists of presents for young and old alike, we thought it might be a good idea to point everyone to some helpful online consumer resources. In particular, we wanted to mention two Justia web sites which allow…
A few weeks ago, a friend at Justia celebrated his birthday. And, you know how it goes. There's a cake involved and everyone sings that special unique song known for that occasion: "Happy Birthday." Well, it turns out that the Happy Birthday song is copyrighted. So, for any reproduction, one…
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…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but there's still time to get terrific gifts for lawyers and clients. Here are some of our favs: The Apple iPad — It's sleek, small, and über cool. It holds nifty free legal apps like Fastcase to find state and federal…