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The first effort to provide free computer access to legal information was made by two academics, Peter Martin and Tom Bruce, in 1992. [8] Today, the Legal Information Institute freely publishes such resources as the text of the United States Constitution, judgements of the United States Supreme Court, and the text of the United States Code.
Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) Oakland-based [1] nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora. [2]
Westlaw is an online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.
HOL and Westlaw were tied for first among the most popular "subscription databases" in Public Libraries. [10] Among North American law libraries HOL, Lexis and Westlaw were tied for the highest number of subscriptions, [ 10 ] in Asia (excluding the Middle East) HOL was tied with Lexis for second place behind Westlaw [ 11 ] and in Europe HOL ...
While many of the basic primary legal sources are available free online (without annotations or other explanatory material), most of finding aids and secondary sources are available by subscription only, through online law databases such as Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and HeinOnline. Due to their expense, these services are out of reach for ...
The plaintiff there claims that PACER fails to provide its users with free access to "judicial opinions," in violation of PACER's contracts with its users as well as the E-Government Act of 2002. In September 2017, District Court Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. dismissed the case; [ 30 ] the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the ...
When AltLaw was launched, digital access to US case law was dominated by LexisNexis and Westlaw, [3] ... and Free", The New York Times, August 14, 2007. Accessed ...
Law students may print documents for free that are obtained through their respective services. Both companies ran programs through which students earned points (based on their number of searches) that could be redeemed for free gifts. [9] While LexisNexis still runs its rewards program, Westlaw has discontinued its promotion. [citation needed]