Last month, the Black Economic Council, Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles and National Asian American Coalition staged a protest at Google, demanding data on the racial make-up of its employees. The specific dataset sought by the protesters was the EEO-1 Report, which is filed by all employers with…
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2010 was a busy legal year, especially for free law advocates. Here are some of Justia’s legal predictions for 2011:…
Lately, I've been playing around with the Books Ngram Viewer from Google Labs. This experimental site displays how often searched phrases appear in publications scanned by the Google Books project over time. For example, open government really jumped in the 1970s. And, as you may have deduced, it correlates with…
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…
Internet legal privacy issues are getting a lot of attention these days. One federal law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act ('ECPA'), is facing many requests for changes, with apparent agreement on revising it.
Hi Friends, Thanks Google for supporting free law … again 🙂 Last year Google Scholar gave the world free USA case law (with internal page numbers) and now Google has announced the first recipients of its Project 10^100 grants, including Public.Resource.Org. To quote the Google announcement 🙂…
Hi Friends, Thanks Google! Google has put FREE US case law online in Google Scholar 🙂 The US Federal case law database includes US Supreme Court opinions since 1 US 1 (pre – 1776), Federal Appeals opinions since 1 F 2d 1 (1924+), and many Federal District Court opinions from…
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…
FCC 700 MHz Band Auction Auction ID: 73 Accepted Applications (Sorted by Applicant) Date of Report: 12/18/2007 01:13 PM ET The following applicants have an Initial filing phase status of “Accepted.”…
Hi Friends, We recently added the a FREE database of Federal District Court Opinions since 2004 that are available using the opinion report in the Federal Courts’ ECF. The database is updated daily. Here is the URL for the Federal District Court Opinions: http://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/ Categorization & Rss Feeds – We…