Articles Tagged with free law

Justia: The Year in Review Updated: by

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…

RECOP: The Report of Current Opinions Updated: by

Great news, friends! Starting in 2011, Public.Resource.Org will release a Report of Current Opinions (RECOP) on a weekly basis. The Report will include a FREE HTML feed of ALL slip and final opinions from the appellate courts of the 50 states and the federal government. The feed will be available…

Holiday Gifts for Law Librarians Updated: by

Given that some of our favorite Justia supporters and friends are law librarians and to help get us all into the holiday spirit of the season, we thought it might be fun to put together a list of library and legal-themed gifts for those folks who keep us on track…

Bulk US Patent Data at Google Updated: by

In light of Justia’s commitment to “free law”, we wanted to make sure to note last week’s announcement that Google, in partnership with the USPTO, now provides bulk access to current US patent applications and grants.  As noted by Richard Jefferson in his “Science as Social Enterprise” blog, until recently…

Duke Conference on Open Access & The Durham Statement – Friday, October 22, 2010 Updated: by

Part of our work here at Justia is the promotion of  “free law,” through which we’ve had the opportunity to engage in projects and partnerships that support free online access to primary and secondary source legal materials for legal practitioners and lay people alike.  In that regard, we were excited…

Building Codes, State Codes & Regulations from Carl Malamud & Public.Resource.org Updated: by

Hi Friends, As many of you know (at least those in the Open Government & Law Groups), Free Public Information Hero Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have been working to get state codes, building codes, electrical codes and other state and city codes online for free… sort of a virtual city…

Oregon decides not to enforce any copyright claims on the Oregon Revised Statutes Updated: by

Hi Friends, Oregon’s Legislative Counsel Committee had a meeting this morning to discuss the copyright claim on the Oregon Revised Statutes. After taking legal counsel from Dexter Johnson, talking with Karl Olson, Carl Malamud, three Oregon citizens and myself, they unanimously voted to not to enforce any copyright claims on…

Legal Commons – Free US Court of Appeals & US Supreme Court Case Law by way of Public.Resource.org and the Creative Commons! Updated: by

Hi Friends, Here comes the Legal Commons. Carl Malamud and the team at Public.Resource.org with Larry Lessig and the Creative Commons gang got the FastCase deal done and the case law online. The cases include all of the Federal Court of Appeals decisions since 1950, and…

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…