The non-profit host of CourtListener, RECAP, and the Big Cases bots. @free.law on Bluesky, @freelawproject on threads.
Oakland, CA
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Few positions embody the law of the lever like this one.
News! We're hiring an AI Developer to help us prototype about a dozen new AI solutions in CourtListener. The grant is for six months, and we're hoping to extend it from there. Please help spread the word so we can get the very best candidates! free.law/hiring/
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Please join @BklyJudicial on Th, Oct 10, at noon, to consider (virtually) why Access to Justice Requires Access to Law. @CornellLaw's Anna Russell talks to @FreeLawProject's Brian Carver and Michael Lissner.
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Every purchase from the Free Law Project shop helps fund our mission to make legal information free and accessible to everyone.
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New filing: "U.S. v. Trump (mar-a-lago docs)"
Doc #672: ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON APPOINTMENTS CLAUSE VIOLATION. Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 7/15/2024.…
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PDF: courtlistener.com/docket/674…
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ALT The entry's text: ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT BASED ON APPOINTMENTS CLAUSE VIOLATION. Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 7/15/2024. See attached document for full details. (jf01) (Entered: 07/15/2024)
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Big day! We also just crossed TEN MILLION items in our case law database. Wow, this only took a decade! HUGE congrats to the case law team: courtlistener.com/opinion/
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Sponsor me in May, June, or July! Put your organization in front of more than 55,000 legal watchers, contribute historical documents to the public commons, and support @freelawproject. Details here: bots.law/big-cases/sponsors/
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Bookmark this!
This is one of the most brilliant applications of legal code and computer code that I’ve seen.
Hallucinated citations are a thorn in the side of generative AI tools. Our new citation verification API can serve as a guardrail by making it possible to lookup hundreds of citations in very large blocks of text: free.law/2024/04/16/citation…
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NEW: A year and a half after we exclusively reported that Justice Jackson had omitted trips, teaching, board positions & spousal income from her financial disclosures, those disclosures have been amended & posted in the judiciary's online database fixthecourt.com/2024/03/kbj-….
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TY to the @BrennanCenter for the opportunity to write about our state court disclosures report statecourtreport.org/our-wor… #statecourtreport.
Now that we know how states are doing — not great, as only 1/2 put disclosures online &most leave out key categories — we can work to fix it.
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Just saw this but last Aug., #SCOTUS added an audio section to p. 2 of its media guide supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/…… stating:
"The Court provides a live audio feed of all scheduled oral arguments."
Enough to call livestreaming policy "permanent"? We think so docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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This settlement doesn't actually change the PACER fee schedule! Somebody should absolutely copy/paste this entire docket and do it all over again. The lawyers from this round got $20M. That could be you in a number of years, if you do the same.
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"Under the terms of the proposed Settlement, each class member will receive a minimum payment of the lesser of $350 or the total amount paid in PACER fees by that class member during the Class Period"
"paid PACER fees between April 21, 2010 and May 31, 2018"
The huge PACER class action lawsuit is finally settled. $125,000,000 will be distributed by the treasury's "Judgement Fund." courtlistener.com/docket/421…
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the class action lawsuit — was filed in 2016 by nonprofits national veterans legal services program, national consumer law center, and alliance for justice —challenged the legality of excessive PACER fees paid over a six-year period and won
great win for the open law movement
The huge PACER class action lawsuit is finally settled. $125,000,000 will be distributed by the treasury's "Judgement Fund." courtlistener.com/docket/421…
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The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring an Engineering Director to help us bring library principles to technological frontiers! Apply here: lil.law.harvard.edu/jobs/#ed
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Smart/common sense changes to help arrest judge shopping by litigants across the United States. Doesn’t mean you still won’t have Dems filing suit in Hawaii or Republicans in the northern district of Texas but it makes it slightly less attractive to do so
The Judicial Conference of the United States today strengthened the policy governing random case assignment to limit the practice of “judge shopping,” when litigants strategically choose where to file cases in hopes of being assigned a certain judge. uscourts.gov/news/2024/03/12…
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3/ The wonderful stories to come out of the @FreeLawProject's archive.
If you don't have the RECAP extension, sign up now. You can get free federal cases. Their API is wonderful, too.
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Tomorrow at #NICAR24: Learn how to access legal documents via free or low-cost and easy-to-use tools.
Pre-registration is required for this class: ire.org/product/nicar24-beco… @FreeLawProject @johnson_carrie @coulterjones @mrsimon22
ALT NICAR24 promotional graphic with chalkboard and headshots: “Becoming A Court Listener - Tools for breaking stories and investigative research.” This is a pre-registered class. Thursday, March 7, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Cost: $40 Taught by Carrie Johnson of NPR, William Palin and Michael Lissner of Free Law Project, Coulter Jones of the Wall Street Journal and Mollie Simon of ProPublica. NICAR24 will take place March 7-10 in Baltimore.
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It can be challenging to find the legal documents and data that are necessary to break a story.
This #NICAR24 Master Class will teach you how to use CourtListener, RECAP and other helpful tools to cover the courts beat. Register here: ire.org/product/nicar24-beco…
ALT NICAR24 promotional graphic with chalkboard and headshots: “Becoming A Court Listener - Tools for breaking stories and investigative research.” This is a pre-registered class. Thursday, March 7, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Cost: $40 Taught by Carrie Johnson of NPR, William Palin and Michael Lissner of Free Law Project, Coulter Jones of the Wall Street Journal and Mollie Simon of ProPublica. NICAR24 will take place March 7-10 in Baltimore.
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Are Chief Justice Roberts & Justice Thomas shielding their travel from the public by not availing themselves of U.S. Marshals Service protection?
USMS: FOIA-able
Supreme Court Police (& private security, possibly): Not FOIA-able
More in our latest: fixthecourt.com/2024/02/usms….