Google Scholar
November 17, 2009 04:50 PM Filed in: Legal
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Ernest Svenson (a/k/a Ernie the Attorney) has a good
piece today (click here) about Google Scholar (click
here), which includes free access
to federal and state case law from 1990 forward.
Ernie writes, "[g]ranted, it's not perfect (did
I mention that yet?). But the point is not
that Google has failed to achieve the lawyer's
dream of a perfect legal research tool.
Rather it's that: Google has taken the
initiative of making caselaw available for free.
Why can't the government do this?
(Apparently no one there knows about HTML and
the Internet.) But I'm grateful that Google has
taken this step, which I hope leads to other
developments that will make all caselaw
available online."
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