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Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 09:46 PM EDT
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Marbux has found us a resource for free legal research. It's not new, but it's a good reminder, called American Law Sources On-line, or ALSO. It offers the following: "[A] comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada. (See also a link below for Mexico.) This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers)."
Here's a link they provide to a series on how the US court system works. Here's another, in English, French, and Spanish. The US cases are categorized by Federal courts -- Supreme, Courts of Appeals, district courts, and special courts -- and also by state. Here's Utah, including State Bar Ethics Opinions. There are links to U.S. Code, to court rules, administrative laws, congressional bills, Native American tribal-law sources, the works. There is a link to Lexis' free search page, where you can find cases going back 5 years for free. You can search by keyword or citation and if you register, by text. It doesn't work very well, in my experience, reminding me why Google is so great. It could be me, of course. If you know the citation, use that. It works fine. But if you know that much, you probably don't need a search engine. Just go to the court directly. But you can use Google to find what you need to use the Lexis search engine and ALSO to find the court. ALSO is a great find. I thank everyone in the government and outside who worked to make this free resource available. I'm on this quest to make it possible for everyone to understand enough of the law to follow along knowledgeably as IP law marches on in the courts. And the paid services are too costly for individuals to afford. At least, I can't afford them. So I'm always looking for free resources. It feels wrong to me that the public can't readily afford to understand the law, and understanding the law requires that one have access to cases. I'll add ALSO to our permanent Legal Links resource page right away, now that I realize all it offers. Thank you, Marbux. Enjoy, everyone.
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 10:12 PM EDT |
For this and for your wise counsel all the time.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: om1er on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 10:17 PM EDT |
n/t
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| Authored by: om1er on Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 10:18 PM EDT |
If any.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 27 2005 @ 12:51 AM EDT |
For Australian and New Zealand law
(just so that you Americans don't think
you have it all to yourselves :)
http://www.austlii.edu.au/
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| Authored by: tjestep on Monday, June 27 2005 @ 06:41 AM EDT |
This is a VERY NICE resource. Keeping everyone's copy of rules and procedures
for the different courts up to date can be expensive and time consuming
(especially with 50 lawyers). This puts everything in a nice neat place and
package, and they can all have their own copy. :)
Thank you, Groklaw, for again being a valuable source of information.
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critical insight." - Daniele Procida.
-Tom
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- Thanks Marbux - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 27 2005 @ 07:00 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Tachyon on Thursday, June 30 2005 @ 07:26 PM EDT |
Over a year ago I predicted that at some point, the Patriot Act and the general
war on terror would somehow be used against the Linux and F/OSS community. That
it would be linked to that kind of idealism and attacked accordingly.
As I recall the response I received ranged from pshaaw, to haha.
Well, here it is:
http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12782
Check out this section of the article (brackets are authors comments):
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"Among other things, the OSS advocates that all computer technology should
be free, and should be accessible to all people around the world at no charge
and no cost." (I think this might be stretching it a bit...)
"Members of OSS and Linux routinely reverse engineer, misappropriate, or by
other means incorporate patented software methods, trade secrets, and other
protected intellectual property into their projects under the cause of freedom
to innovate, and in support of their socialist views that software should be
free and owned by the masses...."
(but worse than that...)
"The beheading and murder of United States Citizens in Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
and other countries have been videotaped, converted to MPEG and other images for
viewing on the public Internet through the use of OSS and Linux software and
computer technology developed and purloined by Linux and OSS members and
illegally exported from the United States."
(so now we know who to blame for those gruesome beheadings...)
"Many of these methods employed by OSS and Linux Community members to
oppress and suppress public viewpoints they do not agree with, do not differ in
any way and in many cases resemble the same methods employed by international
terrorists to promote their causes, in that they advocate through the posting of
messages, emails, and public statements to Internet websites: murder, violence,
death, oppression, mob mentality, intentional infliction of emotional distress,
terror, defamation, identify theft, character assassination, threats to murder
or firebomb the homes of individuals, and threats to overthrow governmental
systems."
(So if I understand the argument here, OSS = Al Qaede, give or take an Internet
posting. But getting to the point...)
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I admit, even I didn't think the first use of this approach would be this
ferocious. But I knew it was coming.
And there will be more.
Tachyon
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