On Feb. 27, I reported the impending launch of a new Web - based service that will search trial transcripts the way other research sites
search court opinions.
A former Delaware trial lawyer is preparing to launch a Web - based service that will search trial transcripts the way other research sites
search court opinions.
A notable enhancement launched this week: Google Scholar added the ability to
search court opinions and law journals by jurisdiction.
Not exact matches
It limits your
search to articles, theses, books, abstracts and
court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
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From diary entries, social worker's reports, half - recalled memories, story problems, arrest records, family lore, Supreme
Court opinions, and her grandmother's letters, Rory crafts a devastating collage that shows us her world while she
searches for the way out of it.
«Adding law review citations to judicial
opinions helps us rank
search results more intelligently, for example, giving a relevance boost to cases that aren't cited by
courts, but are cited by law review articles.
And so it is with Google's entry into the legal research field with its announcement yesterday that Google Scholar now allows users to
search full - text legal
opinions from U.S. federal and state appellate and trial
courts.
Searching for clarity in the family
courts The differing
opinions of senior judges on matters such as the privacy of proceedings mean family practitioners can struggle to accurately advise clients, explains Alex Carruthers Once again, family law cases hit the headlines in national newspapers in 2015.
The majority
opinion of Justice Stewart was specifically approved by a unanimous Supreme
Court of Canada in Hunter v Southam Inc., [1984] 2 SCR 145 where Justice Brian Dickson held, at p. 159, that s. 8 of the Charter containing the constitutional protection against unreasonable
search and seizure is not restricted to the protection of property or associated with the law of trespass, at p. 159: «[I] n Katz... Stewart J. delivering the majority
opinion of the United States Supreme
Court declared at p. 351 that «the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places».
Every day, it becomes easier to locate legal information.32 Gone are the days of complicated
search strings or telephone calls to the
court for copies of the latest unpublished
opinions.
For example, Google Scholar has a good database of
court opinions and a powerful
search engine.
From within the Tabulaw site, you can
search for a
court opinion.
While phones are routinely collected as evidence by both state and federal law enforcement agents, the Supreme
Court ruled in a unanimous
opinion in 2014 that police officers must get a warrant to
search a cell phone.
A
search can be run broadly across a range of content types (e.g.,
court opinions, dockets and statutes) or more narrowly by jurisdiction, practice area or industry.
Fastcase visualizes its
search results in the form of maps playing with relevance, recency and influence of
court opinions.
This week, Google Scholar launched Scholar Library, a feature that lets you save
search results (including
court opinions) in folders, organize them by topic, and use Google to
search them.
Similar to that, Ravel designed a
court opinions search tool mixing influence, relevance and relations between cases.
Currently, Google Scholar allows you to
search and read published
opinions of US state appellate and supreme
court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy
courts since...
See the new advanced
search preferences in Google Scholar, which allow researchers to find
opinions from specific
courts.
Justia was selected for excellence in its approach to helping legal researchers
search U.S. Supreme
Court opinions online.
«The Google Enterprise
Search Superstar Award is great recognition for how we use the Google Mini to search U.S. Supreme Court opinions and other...
Search Superstar Award is great recognition for how we use the Google Mini to
search U.S. Supreme Court opinions and other...
search U.S. Supreme
Court opinions and other... [more]
«The Google Enterprise
Search Superstar Award is great recognition for how we use the Google Mini to search U.S. Supreme Court opinions and other legal databases,» said Justia CEO Tim St
Search Superstar Award is great recognition for how we use the Google Mini to
search U.S. Supreme Court opinions and other legal databases,» said Justia CEO Tim St
search U.S. Supreme
Court opinions and other legal databases,» said Justia CEO Tim Stanley.
You can restrict your
search to a specific part or segment of a document, such as the
court that heard the case or the judge who wrote the
opinion.
Only a handful of
courts had begun to publish their
opinions on the Internet, and only newly released ones — there were no extensive archives to
search.
For the first time, anyone can
search and read all California
court opinions for free, including landmark rulings on every topic, from same - sex marriage (In re Marriage Cases, 2008) to separation of powers (Houston v. Williams, 1859).
After nearly a year of effort, the Free Law Project has downloaded every
opinion and order from the federal
courts» PACER system and has made them available for
search through its RECAP archive of PACER documents.
With a recently announced addition to the advanced
search preferences, Google Scholar now allows you to narrow down your research by
searching opinions from specific
courts.
In addition to getting to these Points of Law through a
court opinion, a researcher can also find them by conducting keyword
searches across all case law or specific jurisdictions.
These let you
search by attorney name,
opinion author, panel members, docket number,
court, case name and citation.
So, in short, a Canadian judge wouldn't discount a US District
Court opinion merely because it was a District
Court opinion, but he or she might make some snarky comments about how far down the food chain his or her opponent had to
search.
A Westlaw
search reveals that «schmo» has appeared more than a handful of times in federal district
court opinions and in the appellate rulings of various state
courts.
As we wrote previously in Lawyer Tech Review, the database allows lawyers to
search and read published federal and state
court opinions in the United States.
Management and Enforcement (protecting copyright and trade - marks, enforcing intellectual property rights, preparing and drafting applications for copyright and trademark registrations, copyright and trademark
searches and legal
opinions, litigating, overseeing and managing copyright intellectual property infringement matters in Federal
Court)
The BVI High
Court Registry is due to re-open imminently, enabling the fulfilment of list
searches and the issuance of legal
opinions.
And I have also written about the unanimous
opinion of the Supreme
Court of the United States in Riley v California, 573 US 1 (2014) where Chief Justice John Roberts held that a warrantless
search and seizure of digital contents of a cell phone during an arrest violates the Fourth Amendment and is unconstitutional.
«There is no question that the
Court has required either a concern for officer safety or a concern over the preservation of evidence to support the constitutionality of a warrantless
search of the area where the defendant was arrested or a
search of items near the defendant,» Chief justice Lori Gildea wrote in today's
opinion (pdf).
For instance, as best I can tell one can't easily
search only
court opinions (federal and from all states); the advanced mode let one select «all legal
opinions and journals,» or «only US federal
court opinions,» or «only
court opinions from the following states.»
The Australian
courts have followed the French — but not the UK
opinion mentioned above — and have found Google liable in defamation for the suggestions that its algorithm makes when someone starts a
search.
Currently, Google Scholar allows you to
search and read published
opinions of US state appellate and supreme
court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and US Supreme Court cases since
court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy
courts since 1923 and US Supreme
Court cases since
Court cases since 1791.
Although results occasionally bring back
court opinions, this is not the right site to
search for them.
For example, if you choose the U.S.C. Collection, its
search criteria would include a
search by Title, U.S. Code Amendment, or U.S. Code Future Amendments (among others), while the Collection of U.S.
Court Opinions would include much different
search criteria options, such as Party Name or
Court Name (among others).
To give «appropriate» an evaluative gloss, allowing a party to delay the commencement of proceedings for some tactical or other reason beyond two years from the date the claim is fully ripened and requiring the
court to assess to tone and tenor of communications in
search of a clear denial would, in my
opinion, inject an unacceptable element of uncertainty into the law of limitation of actions.»
I was thrilled when I discovered wellsettled.com, a new
search engine that allows researchers to keyword
search the text of the parentheticals used in
court opinions.
Second Circuit
opinions are available from the
Court's website (use Sotomayor as a
search term).