Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. This looks to be a great resource for research into federal court cases.
One minor negative: one of the first searches I performed, Bush v. Gore (the Supreme Court decision regarding the 2000 presidential election) didn’t work as it should have because the case is listed as “George Bushs v. Albert Gore“. The “s” at the end of the word kept it from the first page of results. I initially thought it might have referred to the plurality of petitioners (“et al.”), but a Google search actually produces no results when the “s” is included. I looked for a way to notify those who run the site, but only found an e-mail address that was to be used “if you have access to more cases or know where we can get more of them”. Any website meant to offer a service should have (at least) a method for general contact.
(Note: see comment regarding the “one minor negative” paragraph!)
found via ResourceShelf
Thank you for your post. The day you wrote about the discrepancy we updated the site. Thanks! I just decided to see what would happen and the search result you would expect is on top!
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Sam