Consider predictive analytics, where the AI software can examine large
databases of court cases and documents and predict likely outcomes.
Not exact matches
Both have
databases of statutes,
case law,
court dockets, legal articles, and other materials built up over decades.
The Times» analysis is based on data from The Supreme
Court Database, a data collection that contains over 200 pieces of information about each case decided by the court from 1946 to
Court Database, a data collection that contains over 200 pieces
of information about each
case decided by the
court from 1946 to
court from 1946 to 2013.
A few months after holding an hourlong oral argument, the 3rd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals agreed in late July to remand the
case to the trial judge, U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel, who, in turn, agreed to vacate eight
of his published opinions and to «direct» Lexis and Westlaw to remove them from their
databases.
The
case database is updated regularly as new translations
of court decisions are available.
Some U.S.
cases are not in our
database yet, and our data does not include (1)
cases that are missing from
court systems and (2) legal work that occurs outside
of court proceedings.
Some combination
of more features (i.e.store PDFs
of cases within Lexbox, annotate and create notes for yourself on
cases, or automatically compile books
of authorities based on saved items in a folder autoformated to your jurisdiction /
court's prescribed format), more storage (i.e. save 20 items a month at the free level, but pay for unlimited), team / enterprise integration and features (i.e. share common folders and / or annotations and notes firm - wide based on # user licence), more productivity tool integration (Dropbox, Clio, Evernote, Hootsuite, etc.), and other
database integration (WestlawNext, HeinOnline, Quicklaw, etc.) could be unlocked with a subscription.
In the example you gave, you can enter the Supreme
Court file number in the Supreme
Court case information
database to get the docket entries, which will give you the date
of the CA decision and the file number.
Google Scholar has an extensive
database of reported
cases from state and federal
courts.
In this decade, in this century, in this country, the primary, the most accessible and the most used source
of the full text
of the decision
of the
court or a tribunal is a
case law
database.
41 Therefore, on the one hand, provided that the selection or arrangement
of the data --- namely, in a
case such as the one in the main proceedings, data corresponding to the date, the time and the identity
of teams relating to the different fixtures
of the league concerned (see paragraph 26
of the present judgment)- — is an original expression
of the creativity
of the author
of the
database, it is irrelevant for the purpose
of assessing the eligibility
of the
database for the copyright protection provided for by Directive 96/9 whether or not that selection or arrangement includes «adding important significance» to that data, as mentioned in section (b)
of the referring
court's first question.
«[A] n advocate,» Zwillinger testified, «would know that two years ago the Solicitor General stood up and made a representation to the
court that -LSB-...] there is no
database of incidentally - collected U.S. persons» communications and only an advocate who had been there on several
cases would know that the representations the government is making in one
case may be inconsistent with the representations that are made in another.»
CanLII's original objective was to build a
case - law
database for the superior and provincial
courts of each jurisdiction with a minimum depth
of 10 years.
For a
case law
database, «comprehensive» means that within our continuous coverage (which is clearly stated) we have all the judgments which can be identified by one
of these four approaches: — The
court website (when applicable); — The neutral citation (some
courts use a strict sequence
of numbers); — The citations found in the Reflex set
of 33 report series; — The citations found in CanLII documents.
I pointed out that our
database at that time only included decisions from the Supreme
Court of Canada and it was unlikely that there would be such a
case.
This is an international
database of top
court cases from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
You can keep track
of all your
cases in one place, search multiple
courts» PACER
databases from a single search box, get search results that actually give you the information you need, download an entire docket with one click, and much more (here's the product overview PDF).
CanLII has added 1,600 Supreme
Court of Canada
cases, bringing the total
of SCC opinions to 9,000 and taking the scope
of the SCC
database back to 1907.
Bloomberg says that it has extracted more than one million Points
of Law from its
database of 13 million published and unpublished state and federal
court opinions, and that these Points
of Law are being continually updated as new
cases are added.
This is a fully searchable
database of selected
cases in public international law from domestic
courts and
courts of general jurisdiction around the world.
HT Legal provides support in three key areas: 1) training for attorneys willing to handle pro bono matters; 2) technical assistance and mentoring to firms accepting pro bono matters; and 3) free access to a comprehensive
database of civil trafficking
cases filed in U.S. federal
courts since 2003.
As detailed in this webpage (which has links to the briefs in Claiborne here and Rita here), as part
of the amicus effort, «NYCDL compiled and analyzed a
database of 1,515 post-Booker reasonableness review
cases,» which documented «that the
courts of appeals have affirmed nearly all within - and above - guidelines sentences while reversing nearly all below - guidelines sentences appealed by the government.»
Adding to this ever growing
database of case comments criticizing expert witnesses for advocacy, reasons for judgement were released this week by the BC Supreme
Court, New Westminster Registry, rejecting the evidence
of an orthopaedic surgeon hired by ICBC and providing critical comments about his courtroom testimony.
Today, thanks to the work
of Spaeth and his colleagues Professors Jeffery Segal, Lee Epstein and Sarah Benesh, the
database has been expanded to encompass more than two hundred data points from every
case the Supreme
Court has decided since 1791.
Newfoundland and Labrador has just launched a searchable
database of their
Court of Appeal
cases (http://
court.nl.ca/supreme/appeal/decisions.html), a huge project that illustrates the importance being placed by Chief Justice Derek Green on improving resources for -LSB-...]
According to Motherboard the team first trained a Natural Language Processing (NLP) neural network on a
database of court decisions, which contained the facts about the
cases, the circumstances surrounding then, the applicable laws and details about the applicants such as country
of origin.
The bill provides that where a criminal
case is dismissed the defendant may move the
court for an order to remove the link between the person's personal identifying information from the dismissed
case in any publicly searchable
database of the Utah state
courts.
One way to do this would be using appropriate sources
of information like, for instance, legal
databases which are pretty resourceful in terms
of legislation and
case - law
of other Member States and other
courts respectively.
This company, Maritime Law Book (MLB), had national coverage
of all
court levels, a decades - deep topic
database modeled on the West Key Number System, and relationships with
courts to continue receiving new
cases.
In the
case of the Australian and UK
courts, these websites are additional to the open source
databases AustLII and BAILII.
If any person considers that any
case in a PacLII
database may contain information which it should not include, PacLII suggests that they should contact the Registrar
of the
Court or Tribunal concerned, setting out the reasons why there is information in a
case which should not be published.
, I reviewed at the time what was a fairly exhaustive list
of Canadian
court cases where a
court or taxing officer allowed or disallowed the cost
of searching online legal
databases to the winning party.
• the difference between a provincial
court case and a Supreme Court of Canada case; • the use of correct legal terminology; • that stringing 2 coherent sentences is a row is a strength; • that there are unreported cases which do not appear in electronic databases; and • who know how to use a legal lib
court case and a Supreme
Court of Canada case; • the use of correct legal terminology; • that stringing 2 coherent sentences is a row is a strength; • that there are unreported cases which do not appear in electronic databases; and • who know how to use a legal lib
Court of Canada
case; • the use
of correct legal terminology; • that stringing 2 coherent sentences is a row is a strength; • that there are unreported
cases which do not appear in electronic
databases; and • who know how to use a legal library.
Yesterday, for a lark, I ran a search on the SCC
database on CanLII which now, for
cases before 1985, has all
of the reported SCC on appeal from the Ontario CA and the heavily cited
cases from the other
courts.
In the Canadian market for
case law
databases, the only missing
case law
database is one that is truly a complete collection
of case law, from every province and every
court, something the commercial legal publishers have not achieved.
At one time or other, Quicklaw
databases included: Public Records — Databases of federal and provincial legislation, the judgments of Canadian courts, and the decisions of Canadian administrative tribunals, as well as case law from the U.S. and the Comm
databases included: Public Records —
Databases of federal and provincial legislation, the judgments of Canadian courts, and the decisions of Canadian administrative tribunals, as well as case law from the U.S. and the Comm
Databases of federal and provincial legislation, the judgments
of Canadian
courts, and the decisions
of Canadian administrative tribunals, as well as
case law from the U.S. and the Commonwealth.
At the state level, where the same separation
of powers reasoning applies, many state legislatures require
courts in temporary protective order
cases to enter all orders on a statutorily mandated state form that facilitates entry
of those orders into a state
database that is available to law enforcement.
I think that it's important to remind our clients how the statute gets into the
database, and how
courts work — it gives them a window into the \ hidden \ parts
of legal information — debates, white / green papers in the
case of legislation and filing documents in the
courts.
Copies
of cases obtained from internet legal reporting services or other electronic
databases are acceptable provided the report
of the judgment contains paragraph numeration consistent with the numbering
of the paragraphs in the judgment as released by the
court.
Tell your students and younger associates that they can't use the subscription
databases until AFTER they've read the relevant summary in (1) the leading texts (2) asked — where that facility exists — somebody who should know if the same question was reaserched within recent memory and where the memo is; (3) consulted a leading treatise such as the CEDs even if only for the
case law; (4) asked somebody one or two years ahead
of them if they know the most recent
case (s), (5) searched CanLII, the other LIIs etc, (6) for litigators, looked at the subject matter indicies for the Advocates» Quarterly and the Supreme
Court of Canada law review and (7) signed a written declaration that they did (1) through (6), as required, properly.
I am envisioning a simple tool that would indicate their coverage
of various
courts over time, so one could know at a glance which
database to consult for finding a particular
case.
Three or four times in the last week I have had discussions with various people on the issue
of the versions
of copies
of court cases that are provided to the
court in a book
of authorities — are you required to provide a photocopy
of the
case from an official (or unofficial) print version
of the
case or is it acceptable to provide a printout
of an online version from one
of the commercial
databases or from CanLII?
As Sam Glover
of Lawyerist puts it: «You can keep track
of all your
cases in one place, search multiple
courts» PACER
databases from a single search box, get search results that actually give you the information you need, download an entire docket with one click, and much more....
Database giant Oracle has won an appeal against Google in a long - running
case, with a
court reversing a verdict that had found Google's use
of 37 Java APIs in the Android mobile operating system was covered by fair use.
How do I handle requests for such references?Thank you so much for your help!CherylCHERYL M. EARLE3407 Old Dobbin Road, Montgomery, Alabama 36116 - 1903Home Phone: 334-215-3706 Cell Phone: 334-233-2631 Fax: 334-273-0477 E-mail:
[email protected] position managing legal discovery and document review with opportunity to assist attorneys with civil litigationBAR ADMISSIONAlabama State Bar, 1999LAW - RELATED EXPERIENCELaw Firm, AlabamaResearch Attorney for Special Projects, Mass Torts Department, November 2001 — February 2008 • Managed Multi-District Litigation (MDL) Document Depository (September 2002 to February 2008) o Reviewed more than 1 million pages
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Some states do not provide any
court information for the
databases and in many
cases, records are limited in the amount and type
of reliable data they provide.
As we've pointed out numerous times in our blog, a «national criminal
database search» (in quotes because it's actually a misnomer)-- one
of the practices targeted by the FTC in its
case against the penalized background screening company — should never be reported without proper quality assurance and without local - level
court records verification.
• Compiled data from 4
databases resulting in a 30 % reduction in data file retrieval time • Initiated an efficient coding system that ensured 100 % data integrity and confidentiality • Designed a performa to facilitate initial data entry which was highly commended and adopted by other departments also • Coded and input various
case and offense records into the
database • Gathered important information for record formation and verification • Processed
court documentation and manage distribution
of mail
The Tribune reported that
Court Executive Officer Susan Matherly, citing the California Rules
of Court, was concerned with how
case information in the
Court's
database was used by those seeking to sell it, namely public records researchers working for private background screening firms.
Professional Duties & Responsibilities Provided administrative and technical support to multiple law firms Scheduled activities for intellectual property, bankruptcy, and corporate attorneys Created and distributed weekly and monthly calendars containing
case deadlines Obtained working knowledge
of the Federal and local rules
of Civil Procedure Performed legal research using multiple industry search engines and
databases Assisted attorneys with conflict
of interest inquiries, strategy, and special projects Filed legal documents in federal, state, county, city, and appellate
courts Oversaw
case developments and prepared status reports for legal team Scanned, proofread, edited, and converted legal documents into Adobe PDF files for printing and archival purposes Oversaw all firm incoming and outgoing mail processes Directed and maintained large scale military computer systems Received multiple awards for excellent service record