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creativecommons / legaldb

CC Legal Database: curated repository of Case Law and Scholarship data from around the world in a Django based website.
https://LegalDB.CreativeCommons.org/
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[Feature] support publicly accessible case law databases #190

Open TimidRobot opened 1 month ago

TimidRobot commented 1 month ago

Problem

The information available is limited to what has been captured and made available (ex. https://legaldb.creativecommons.org/cases/1/ links to https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/f/f6/2010-10-26_A%27cision-trib.-Nivelles-Lichodmapwa.pdf)

Description

The existing interface links to relevant PDFs, but linking to relevant publicly accessible case law databases could increase context, discoverability, etc.

Ideally, case law databases could be supported in the UX so that linking to them requires a minimal amount of information.

For example, https://legaldb.creativecommons.org/cases/2/ could link to https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4390142/chang-v-virgin-mobile-usa-llc/

Additional research is needed to identify publicly accessible case law databases in multiple jurisdictions.

Support for publicly accessible case law databases could also aid discovery of additional cases that should be cataloged in the LegalDB.

Additional context

Implementation

jatinder14 commented 1 week ago

hi @TimidRobot I wanna try it out can you please assign it to me

TimidRobot commented 6 days ago

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