Articles Tagged with Cornell

EME Homer and the Problem with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Electronic Publishing Updated: by

By now, you’ve all read that Justice Antonin Scalia made a series of mistakes in the dissenting opinion of EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, L.P. The Supreme Court issued a corrected version of the opinion on its website. For more on the story, read the coverage in the WSJ…

Justia to Attend 2012 Law Via the Internet Conference at Cornell Law’s Legal Information Institute Updated: by

In a few days, several of us here at Justia will be traveling to “gorges” Ithaca, New York, to attend the 2012 Law Via the Internet Conference at Cornell Law School. The conference marks the 20th Anniversary of the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School, the Internet’s first…

Legal Information Institute Tom Bruce, Dan Nagy & Deborah Schaaf visit Ithaca West (aka Berkeley & the Silicon Valley) Updated: by

Hi Friends, Tom Bruce, Dan Nagy and Deborah Schaaf from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School stopped on by for some meetings with folks on new free information projects. The LII gang met with us, Nolo, Stanford and FreeGovInfo.info 🙂 And there was a talk on privacy on…

Cease, Desist & Resist – Oregon’s Copyright Claim on the Oregon Revised Statutes Updated: by

Hi Friends, Last week, the State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent Justia a notice of copyright infringement and demand to cease and desist. In its letter, Dexter Johnson, the Legislative Counsel, asked us to remove a copy of the Oregon Revised Statutes stored on our servers (or pay a…

US Legislative Histories Sold to Thomson-West by the GAO??? Updated: by

Hi Friends, As public domain information hero Carl Malamud is working on getting case law online and into the public domain (we have helped a bit :). Carl, donors, and the Public.Resource.org team have done a lot and… more to come… But in addition to case law, Carl has also…

Cornell LII Director Tom Bruce visits Stanford & Justia Updated: by

Hi Friends, One of the biggest forces in free online legal information, Tom Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School stopped by to meet with the gang at Justia. It was great talking through ideas about the future of legal information. We are going to do…

Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.Org and Free Case Law Updated: by

Hi Friends, Our friend & hero Carl Malamud stopped by the “Justia offices” to talk about his new public interest public information project…. making the case law and codes of the United States of America (state and federal) freely accessible in a public domain archive. See Tim O’Reilly’s blog post…

Bloomberg for President & Free Stuff at the Stanford Law School Advanced Legal Research Class Updated: by

Hi Friends, Cicely and I made a presentation to the Stanford Law School Advanced Legal Research class today. There was a law librarian Liza MacMorris from Wilson Sonsini who gave students the reality of research working at a large law firm and a guy from Bloomberg who gave details on…