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Law.Gov Proposes Open-Source Stash of All Primary US Legal Materials

Posted Oct 15, 2009, 01:24 pm CST
By Martha Neil

An ambitious project to create an open-source authenticated repository of all primary legal materials in the United States is being proposed by Law.Gov.

Detailed by Law.Gov, the project is presently in a planning stage. A growing group of individuals and organizations including a number of well-known law schools and law professors expect to meet to discuss how it might be pursued and potentially develop a proposal for doing so.

"By primary legal materials," Law.Gov explains, "we mean all materials that have the force of law and are part of the law-making process, including: briefs and opinions from the judiciary; reports, hearings, and laws from the legislative branch; and regulations, audits, grants, and other materials from the executive branch.… Continue reading...



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