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CourtListener.com

CourtListener.com The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system.

At present, the site has daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Each day, we also have the non-precedential opinions from all of the Circuit courts except the D.C. Circuit. This means that by 5:10pm PST, the database will be updated with the opinions of the day, with custom alerts going out shortly thereafter.

The coverage of our corpus for a given court varies, but it is growing on a daily basis. We are working to integrate the documents from other online sites that provide free public access to court documents.

Boolean searching of the opinions is available and I recommend clicking on the Advanced search link and "more details" at the bottom.

Hat tip to Law Librarian blog for the site.

Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

Full post as published by Virtual Library Cat's Eye View on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).