AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, INC. et al v. PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC.

Filing 138

LARGE ADDITIONAL ATTACHMENT(S) by PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC. 136 Second MOTION for Summary Judgment filed by PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC., 137 SEALED MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE DOCUMENT UNDER SEAL filed by PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC. (This document is SEALED and only available to authorized persons.) filed by PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit 1, # 2 Exhibit 2, # 3 Exhibit 3, # 4 Exhibit 4, # 5 Exhibit 5, # 6 Exhibit 6, # 7 Errata 7, # 8 Exhibit 8, # 9 Exhibit 9, # 10 Exhibit 10, # 11 Exhibit 11, # 12 Exhibit 12, # 13 Exhibit 13, # 14 Exhibit 14, # 15 Exhibit 15, # 16 Exhibit 16, # 17 Exhibit 17, # 18 Exhibit 18, # 19 Exhibit 19, # 20 Exhibit 20, # 21 Exhibit 21, # 22 Exhibit 22, # 23 Exhibit 23, # 24 Exhibit 24, # 25 Exhibit 25, # 26 Exhibit 26, # 27 Exhibit 27, # 28 Exhibit 28, # 29 Exhibit 29, # 30 Exhibit 30, # 31 Exhibit 31, # 32 Exhibit 32, # 33 Exhibit 33, # 34 Exhibit 34, # 35 Exhibit 35, # 36 Exhibit 36, # 37 Exhibit 37, # 38 Exhibit 38 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 39 Exhibit 39 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 40 Exhibit 40, # 41 Exhibit 41, # 42 Exhibit 42, # 43 Exhibit 43, # 44 Exhibit 44, # 45 Exhibit 45, # 46 Exhibit 46, # 47 Exhibit 47, # 48 Exhibit 48, # 49 Exhibit 49 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 50 Exhibit 50 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 51 Exhibit 51 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 52 Exhibit 52 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 53 Exhibit 53 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 54 Exhibit 54 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 55 Exhibit 55 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 56 Exhibit 56, # 57 Exhibit 57, # 58 Exhibit 58 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 59 Exhibit 59 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 60 Exhibit 60 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 61 Exhibit 61 FILED UNDER SEAL, # 62 Exhibit 62, # 63 Exhibit 63, # 64 Exhibit 64, # 65 Exhibit 65, # 66 Exhibit 66, # 67 Exhibit 67, # 68 Exhibit 68, # 69 Exhibit 69 FILED UNDER SEAL)(Bridges, Andrew)

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1.8M Pages of Federal Case Law to Go Public
By Robert Ambrogi on November 14, 2007

Carl Malamud’s nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research
company Fastcase today announced an agreement that will allow Public.Resource.Org to
publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law in the public domain. The archive, which will
become available sometime in 2008, will include all U.S. courts of appeals decisions since
1950 and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. I wrote in August about Malamud’s charge
to crash the Wexis gate with his plan to create a public-domain repository of all case law,
federal and state, and I first wrote about him a decade ago in recognition of his work to bring
the SEC’s EDGAR database to the public. In today’s statement, he said:

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“The U.S. judiciary has allowed their entire work
product to be locked up behind a cash register. Law is
the operating system of our society and today’s
agreement means anybody can read the source for a
substantial amount of case law that was previously
unavailable.”
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Notably, this public-domain database will come about with the cooperation of a for-profit
legal research company. Fastcase has agreed to sell this case law in a one-time transaction
that will allow Public.Resource.Org to use it. The cases will be marked with a new Creative
Commons mark — CC-Ø — that signals that there are no copyrights or other related rights
attached to the content.
Once it receives the cases, Public.Resource.Org will format them using open source “star”
mapping software, which will allow the insertion of markers that will approximate page
breaks based on user-furnished parameters such as page size, margins, and fonts. “Wiki”
technology will be used to allow the public to move around these markers, as well as add
summaries, classifications, keywords, alternate numbering systems for citation purposes,
and ratings or “diggs” on opinions.
Going forward, new cases will be added to the database through organizations that already
make cases publicly available, such as AltLaw and the Legal Information Institute.
Today’s announcement said that further news “will be forthcoming on the availability of
other case law, including Federal District and pre-1949 Appellate decisions.”

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