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A fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
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Do something with judicial papers #1660

Open mlissner opened 3 years ago

mlissner commented 3 years ago

The Library of Congress is collecting a lot of judicial papers:

https://guides.loc.gov/papers-of-federal-judges/?loclr=bloglaw

I haven't looked closely at the collection, but we should connect these to our profiles. At a minimum, we could add a field to the DB to link these up, at a maximum, we could import and make all these papers searchable. The latter is probably excessive, but who knows. In any case, this is a great resource and it'd be cool to start including it.

mlissner commented 3 years ago

I shouldn't assume things are digitized. Looks like they're not:

https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=mm%2088065871&searchType=1&permalink=y

mlissner commented 3 years ago

permalink=y is one way to do it, I guess.

zvisrosen commented 3 years ago

Most of these are on microform or paper. SCOTUSblog has a guide to all Justices' papers: https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/08/accessing-the-papers-of-supreme-court-justices-online-other-resources/

It also mentions the Biographical Directory of Article 3 Judges from FJC, which has a manuscript records section for any judge with a known collection anywhere.

mlissner commented 3 years ago

Thanks @zvisrosen !