Comments on: About http://legalresearchplus.com Brought to you by the Legal Research instructors at Stanford Law School Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: joelneuenhaus http://legalresearchplus.com/about/#comment-1179 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:16:53 +0000 #comment-1179 If you’re interested, I created this tax law search engine and it’s quite useful: http://www.globaltaxlaws.com/

Hope you find this useful!

]]> By: abovethelaw http://legalresearchplus.com/about/#comment-632 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:21:51 +0000 #comment-632 With the downturn and its effect on the legal profession, the reputation is fading as fast as the money. nice blog though.

]]> By: Alan Sugarman http://legalresearchplus.com/about/#comment-53 Sat, 17 May 2008 14:18:13 +0000 #comment-53 Your readers may be interested in my recent letters to the Administrative Office of US Courts and Senator Lieberman with a proposal to open up access to the database of district and bankruptcy court opinions that exists “virtually” as a sub-set of the CM/ECF (aka Pacer) database. Lieberman is sponsoring the reauthorization of the E-Government Act of 2002. We wish to have more specific discussion of what the US Courts should be doing. The documents are posted at http://www.hyperlaw.com

Last year there were over 95,000 court decisions in the Lexis U.S. District Court database, and only a small percentage (perhaps you could help me and figure this out) end up in West’s printed volumes.

Thus, scanning in only printed case reporters is only a partial solution and keeps much now citable law hidden or less accessible.

The proposal also discusses the issue of federal judges properly marking documents as written opinions, so as to identify the written opinions within the millions of documents on the CM/ECF system. Incidentally, for federal court litigators this system is highly appreciated and praised.

The proposal also discussing persistent file naming using the docket entry number on the courts docket sheet, access to search engines, inclusion of metadata, and bulk downloading.

Alan Sugarman
http://www.hyperlaw.com

Matthew Bender v. West, 158 F. 3d 674 (2nd Cir. 1998), aff’g, No. 94 Civ. 0589, 1997 WL 266972 (S.D.N.Y. May 19, 1997), cert. denied sub. nom. West v. Hyperlaw, 526 U.S. 1154 (1999).

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