Sentences with phrase «access to court opinions»

«A pilot project giving the public free, text - searchable, online - access to court opinions now is available to all federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts....»

In 1886, the Supreme Judicial of Massachusetts ruled that, because every citizen is presumed to know the law, then every citizen should have free access to court opinions.

That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.

Years ago, both of these companies saw the approach of broad public access to court opinions.

I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.

One of the most recent examples of this for U.S. law is Casetext, a site that provides free access to court opinions and then uses crowdsourcing to add descriptions and annotations to the cases.

Not exact matches

It might be added that several U.S. Supreme Court opinions say the purpose of restrictive ballot access laws is to promote «stability».

«It is crucial for a democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated education,» Ellen A. Peters, then chief justice of the state's High Court, wrote in the majority opinion in July 1996.

That system charges the public for access tomany filings and is daunting to use, says Lissner, whose group recently has taken all the free written orders and opinions available in PACER and made them accessible on the website Court Listener.

If the parents are unable to resolve their differences through mediation, the court may appoint a third person, such as a psychologist experienced in working with divided families, to evaluate the case and provide an expert opinion regarding the most appropriate custody and parental access orders.

There have been many developments in securities whistleblower rulings over the years, but none as compelling as Justice Ginsburg's opinion in Digital Realty Trust, Inc., vs. Somers which held that an employee who merely reports potential securities law violations internally has not done enough to avail himself of the extensive Dodd - Frank anti-retaliation protections, including «the immediate access to federal court, a generous statute of limitations (at least six years), and the opportunity to recover double backpay.»

A recent decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union found that the Dutch immigration authorities were not required to give a person access to a legal opinion about the person's immigration status, though the opinion contained personal information about the person.

A Maryland District Court opinion even concluded that remote access to a server and computer in an office located in another state was sufficient for that office to constitute a lawyer's principal office.

A newly launched website, The Free Law Reporter, provides free access to a searchable index of recent federal and state court opinions.

This is often described as a «Big Data» function, but I think we tend to overlook the fact that data we've long had access to, such as court records and court opinions, are forms of Big Data that can be mined to extract information we haven't had access to before.

According to the opinion, the Georgia Constitution indeed includes an implied right of access to the courts, despite Reed's protestations to the contrary, and the plaintiffs properly stated a claim that the mandatory e-filing procedures violated that right.

For example, the Cornell's LII provides access to a fully searchable archive of federal court opinions, a topical index of state statutes by topic, and access to a comprehensive legal encyclopedia.

Greene has not cited — and the Court has not found — a single statute, regulation, rule, or judicial opinion holding that a litigant has a right of access (under the First Amendment, the common law, or anything else) to communications between a judge and his or her law clerk, including draft opinions and orders.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

The Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to providing free, public access to primary legal materials, has announced plans to download all of the free opinions and order available on PACER, the federal courts» system for electronic access to court records.

The full story is in today's Pacific Daily News and a month ago in the Marianas Variety Guam's court system wants to improve public access to local laws, government rules, executive orders, court decisions and attorney general opinions.

The ECJ's decision followed the opinion of an advocate - general that the right of access to a national court was a fundamental right under EU law and denial of such right would be contrary to the right to effective judicial protection.

Whether or not one treats the majority opinion's public forum analysis of social networks as «dicta» (which is legalese for «stuff in an opinion I don't like so I don't consider binding»), all 8 Supreme Court justices agreed that subscribers have a First Amendment right to access information and speak online, and that the government can not prohibit a person from accessing content that has nothing to do with preventing repeat offenses — even when the repeat offense is child molestation, and the evidence arguably supported that child molesters were particularly prone to repetition.

[60] In the opinion of the appellate court, the use of such a method recognizes the concerns raised by the commentators and the courts that dollars spent on increased access or shared custody do not necessarily lead to a reduction in expenditures for the recipient parent.

Common challenges include: legal education reform and preparing lawyers for a future that is already here; solving access to justice; defending the rule of law; creating appropriate guidelines for social media, ensuring that its role in the court of public opinion does not marginalize the legal system; and narrowing the delta between current legal delivery methods and customer needs and expectations.

While the majority opinion and concurrence seems grounded in — and specific to — sex offender restrictions, the evolving communications technology that operates in cyberspace today suggests that the ruling will have an impact on attempts to restrict web access for all criminal defendants in state or federal courts...

While access to other documents through PACER carries a fee, all documents tagged by the deciding court as «opinions» can be retrieved without charge.

Recently, the Council of State (i.e., the Italian supreme administrative court and consultative body) adopted an important advisory opinion, which allows for improved access to investigational medicines by patients in Italy.

the majority's opinion raises the concerning possibility that the Court's new reading of section 96 in conjunction with the rule of law principle may be used to undermine existing provincial authority over access to alternative dispute resolution, and private international law more generally.

Technology, new delivery models, and a reboot of legal culture will enable the legal industry to tackle law's big problems: access to justice, the defense of democracy, and ensuring that social media's impact on the «court of public opinion» does not undermine the rule of law.

«While I have no reason to doubt that the FBI dropped the case because they were able to access the data, many will suspect that it was because the agency was losing in the court of public opinion and was perhaps on the verge of losing in court,» he told the E-Commerce...

«The court's opinion is limited to access by former employees who had their old accounts revoked.»

The app provides quick access to all published opinions of the California Supreme Court and the California Courts of Appeal.

It is only at the appeals court level that we have access to published opinions interpreting the law.