Articles Tagged with Nolo

Just In Time for the Holidays – Consumer Product & Safety Resources Updated: by

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…

App of the Week: Nolo’s Plain English Legal Dictionary Updated: by

Sometimes people mistake Justia's mission, "To advance the availability of legal resources for the benefit of society," as being only about advancing the availability of legal resources for lawyers, but society is much larger then the legal community. This week's App of the week is free for the iPhone and iPad…

Weather Report: Cloud-E with a Chance of Privacy Law Changes Updated: by

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.

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…

Yes We Scan!!! Carl Malamud for Head of the Government Printing Office Updated: by

Hi Friends, A few weeks ago the New York Times floated a rumor/great idea that Carl Malamud, the great hard working free information Internet do-gooder, was being mentioned as a potential candidate for head of the Government Printing Office. Of course, we at Justia cheered this idea on —…

Home Foreclosure Resources & The Foreclosure Survival Guide by Steve Elias – New Nolo.com Book Updated: by

Hi Friends, As most of us know, Nolo.com is the best Website for consumer and small business USA legal information. Nolo's lawyers-writers-editors are the best. Nolo.com covers everything from starting a business, employment, real estate, intellectual property, immigration, family law, tax, estate planning, bankruptcy, credit law and foreclosures. Well... as…

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…

Free Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 and all US Supreme Court decisions since 1754 Coming Soon Updated: by

Hi Friends, Carl Malamud and Public.Resource.org have gotten together with Ed Walters CEO of FastCase and are happy to announce that they will be putting online an archive of US Appeal Court decisions since 1950 and all of the US Supreme Court cases since 1754.…

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…