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Free Law Project has several initiatives that collect and share legal information, including the largest [3] collection of American oral argument audio, [4] daily collection of new legal opinions from 200 United States courts and administrative bodies, the RECAP Project, which collects documents from PACER, and user-generated Supreme Court ...
Greenleaf G 'Free access to legal information, LIIs, and the Free Access to Law Movement', Chapter in Danner, R and Winterton, J (eds.) IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management. Aldershot, Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2011 - This chapter updates information about some FALM members to 2011, but is not comprehensive.
Founded in 1992 by Peter Martin and Tom Bruce, [2] [3] LII was the first law site developed on the internet. [4] LII electronically publishes on the Web the U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, Uniform Commercial Code, the US Code of Federal Regulations, several Federal Rules, [5] and a variety of other American primary law materials. [6]
Maryland also continues to follow common law principles on the issue of when one may use deadly force in self-defense. In the case of State v.Faulkner, 301 Md. 482, 485, 483 A.2d 759, 761 (1984), the Court of Appeals of Maryland summarized those principles, and stated that a homicide, other than felony murder, is justified on the ground of self-defense if the following criteria are satisfied:
Melony G. Griffith, Larry Hogan and Adrienne A. Jones enacting Maryland law in April 2022. The Laws of Maryland comprise the session laws have been enacted by the Maryland General Assembly each year. According to the Boston College Law library, session laws are "useful in determining which laws were in force at a particular time." Unlike the ...
Maryland Law was founded in 1816 as the Maryland Law Institute. [4] David Hoffman is credited with founding the institute, and in 1817 he published his legal course Hoffman's Course of Legal Study. The school began regular instruction in 1824, [5] and it is the fourth oldest law school in the United States. [6]
The following former Maryland governors are alumni of UM Law: Austin Lane Crothers (1890), 46th Governor of Maryland, 1908–1912 [2] Marvin Mandel (1942), 56th Governor of Maryland, 1969–1979 [3] Theodore McKeldin (1925), 53rd Governor of Maryland, 1951–1959 [4] Herbert O'Conor (1920), 51st Governor of Maryland, 1939–1947; U.S. Senate ...
McGowan v. Maryland, 366 U.S. 420 (1961), was a United States Supreme Court case that affirmed the Maryland State Supreme Court's decision that the state's Sunday closing laws did not have a religious purpose to aid religion and that the secular purpose of the legislation to set aside a day of rest and recreation did not violate the Establishment Clause.