A quick fyi: Starting today, you can find online legal opinions from the Supreme Court, as well as federal and state courts, thanks to Google Scholar. When you visit Google Scholar, click on the ”Legal opinions and journals” radio button, and then begin your query. If you type ”separate but equal,” Scholar with present you with famous Supreme Court Cases such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education. You get the gist. You can read more about this online legal database over at Google’s blog.
UPDATE/NOTE FROM READER: “This has already been done for the US Supreme Court, and very well, at oyez.org. Oyez is easy to use, has lots of additional content, including summaries and audio of oral arguments, and is ad-free and Creative Commons licensed for its original content. Plus, you can search by court term, Justice, and the name of the legal counsel.” An alternative source to look at…
This has already been done for the US Supreme Court, and very well, at oyez.org. Oyez is easy to use, has lots of additional content, including summaries and audio of oral arguments, and is ad-free and Creative Commons licensed for its original content. Plus, you can search by court term, Justice, and the name of the legal counsel.
So I’m not sure what’s so great about Google searching public domain content and adding advertisements to it. Maybe this is useful because most people go to Google first, but it’s not new.
Wimberely, you’re correct: after all, Oyez has SCOTUS opinions plus seachable legal opinions and journals, and federal court opinions, and state court opinions.
Oh wait, does it?
Averting your eyeballs from ads is a small price to pay for avoiding the wexis/nestlaw extortion.