If you are one of the many students who has ventured away from the Law School campus for the summer, you might find yourself in a new city that you don’t yet know much about. One great mobile app that will help you to learn more about the demographics, popular hot spots and weather of your current location …
Today marks the beginning of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2012-2013 term. The first case of the new term, which was heard today, is a challenge of the 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which has been an important tool for human rights organizations seeking to end overseas humans rights abuses (briefs in the case are available online), and the Court …
Today the Library of Congress, the Government Printing Office, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives came together to announce the launch of the beta version of Congress.gov. This new site, which will eventually replace THOMAS, already offers access to information on the status and language of bills, video of the House and Senate floors, biographical …
New daily opinion summary alerts service In March, Justia launched a fabulous daily opinion summary service where you can receive alerts by jurisdiction or legal practice area. http://law.justia.com/subscriptions Recently, it announced that along with the United State Supreme Court and all Federal Appellate Courts, the service now includes all 50 states and over 60 legal practice areas/subjects. You …
As an update to our earlier post on the Sunlight Foundation, C-SPAN has now posted video of a forum hosted by the Sunlight Foundation on May 9, 2011 to discuss the Congressional Research Service. Participants discussed the CRS analysts, the reports they prepare, and the agency’s future. The discussion also focused on the likelihood of improving public access …
Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to harness the internet to increase access to government information and governmental transparency, testified before House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch about the importance of increasing access to Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports and THOMAS data. The full written testimony is available on the Sunlight …
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Our colleagues at the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School and Justia (with some help from the folks at Fastcase and Stanford Law students) recently teamed up for SCOCAL, an exciting project to provide open access to California law. From a description on its fabulous Legal Research Plus blog, the website “provides free access to the …
“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, Federal Government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google ebookstore ,” which can be accessed on most e-readers or on your computer. Some of the books are free, but it looks …
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When teaching students about federal statutes, one of the most confusing concepts can be that of positive law. If there is a discrepancy between the Statutes at Large and the United States Code, the Statutes at Large trumps unless the title has been enacted into positive law, which has not happened with the majority of titles. Peter LeFevre …
Today, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Federal Register Act, the Office of the Federal Register has launched its new Federal Register site. The new Federal Register organizes agency issuances into six sections: Money, Environment, World, Science & Technology, Business & Industry, and Health & Public Welfare. In addition to search, the site provides browsing by …