Slashdot reports that Carl Malamud (of EDGAR fame) has begun posting the full text of 1.8 million U.S. federal court opinions on-line, for free. The data, scanned in from the Federal Reporter fiche, comprise every Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decision from 1950 to the present. He's now in the process of getting them OCRd. O'Reilly Radar tells the story as well.
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That O'Reilly story is over a year old; the REAL news is much more recent. As Lawrence Lessig reports(1), Malmud's resource.org and Lessig's CC have together purchased a database with a substantial portion of all federal cases. The group has made the data available xml format free for developers to use as they wish.
(1): http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/big_news_in_the_free_law_depar.html
See the resource.org press release at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/0_Press_20080211.pdf (pdf).
Posted by: Neil | 19 February 2008 at 06:21 PM