AltLaw.org, according to the site, “is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.”  The site’s purpose:  to allow the user to search case law for the U.S. Supreme Court and Circuit Appeals Courts.

It is easy to use, and lets you choose to display the court rulings either in plain text, or you can see the nicely formatted Pdf version.

discovered via Open Access News

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has declined to revisit the question of church services in library meeting rooms (see my earlier post here), and the case is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Will it actually go before the high court?  Depends on whether the justices feel that there are issues in this case that they need to review.  This could turn into a defining case for the limits and freedoms of religious expression in government facilities; or they can let the ruling stand as is.

You can find the full text of the ruling here (in Pdf format).  The library’s meeting room policy can be found here (also in Pdf).

from ResourceShelf