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We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact.
Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.
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I miss Joe Biden. I'm still mad at the people that did him dirty.
93. Defendantโs inclusion of a prayer for relief in their answer, seeking dismissal and attorneys' fees, is not only procedurally improper but also an attempt to introduce matters that are not part of the defense. These requests should be struck from the answer because they were made without a counterclaim, and Defendant has not provided any legal basis for these demands. The Court should order Defendant to comply with the proper procedures for seeking relief. 94. This approach directly challenges the procedural flaws in their prayer for relief and argues for the proper course of action in response to the claims and defenses they have raised. Hopefully, this helps ensure that Defendant doesnโt get to throw out these extraneous and baseless requests in their answer. Let me know if you need any adjustments or further help! 95. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(f), a court may strike from any pleading any โredundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.โ A request for attorneyโs fees is an affirmative defense and must be pleaded with sufficient factual detail to provide notice to the opposing
i'm not a lawyer, is it considered good practice to include the ChatGPT "here you go! let me know if you need anything else!" paragraph in your brief that also has at least nine citations to cases that don't exist? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rethinking Capital: How a Nonprofit Can Provide the Fuel for Tech Breakthroughs
#LegalTech needs funding before VC kicks in. What if nonprofits filled the gap? Join us to explore #CatalyticCapital, the game-changer for legal innovation.
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Leveraging Technology to Access the Hidden Justice Market & Improve Economic Mobility
Millions face court aloneโevictions, debt, custody. Can tech bridge the #justice gap? Explore solutions that empower litigants & modernize courts. #A2J
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To start the weekend, we've got a brand new experience for case law on CourtListener. It has better typography, more features and metadata, five million scanned decisions from @harvardlil.bsky.social, and a lot more. Read all about it and let us know what you think: free.law/2025/03/21/c...
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries.
The Trump administration has placed roughly 80% of the agency's staff on administrative leave.
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Do you want one of these sweet D20s? If you attend #LITCon2025 you can have one. Join us in Boston on April 7, 2025 to talk about law, innovation, and technology. And yes there will be some role playing. Register here: suffolklitlab.org/events/lit-c...
On Friday we launched a brand new interface for case law, making it faster and much more powerful. Read about it below and let us know what you think! We think it's a huge step forward.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
Just understanding what the judge and other attorneys are saying is only a small part of what creates the barrier to justice for millions of people. #A2J #SelfRepresentedLitigants www.tiktok.com/@odsandra/vi...
this is one of the best things you can do for yourself and i honestly believe that the fact that so many fail at it is why were are where we are
Have a PACER doc you really want, but you used up your free $30 of the quarter? Feel like bestowing some free PACER docs on strangers? This is such a fun project.
This type of judicial research is another reason why we need to open PACER. Hidden biases must be rooted out and addressed, not buried in inaccessible data.
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Once, I was part of a team of four people at 18F that saved the Department of Defense $500 million with a single, three-day project. 18F projects saved many millions of dollars as a matter of course, while delivering better results for Americans. Another time I was part of a two-person team (our billing worked out to about half an FTE, as I recall) that partnered with a court for 18 months to help them build, from scratch, an open source case management system to drive the operations of the entire court. The whole thing cost them just a few million bucks, vastly less than theyโd been spending on their old system, and today their cost of operating it is a rounding error compared to their old infrastructure costs. All the work 18F did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. In short, 18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it. 18Fโs work is evidence that government works well, which undermines their message that it doesnโt. 18Fโs parent agency, the U.S. General Services Administration, turns a profit as an agency. So it has to be destroyed too.
Most members of the public have little reason to be aware of 18F, or will understand what its loss signifies. So this post tries to capture that, by including the voices of those who worked there. First, from @waldo.net
๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐: FLP spoke at LSC ITC25 - when legal aid, courts & tech work together we build solutions serving those in need.
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Using novel data on financial disclosures of judges and the civil case information of public firms across district courts in the United States between 2000 and 2021, we document multiple instances in which judges fail to recuse themselves in cases where they hold common stock. We find robust evidence that judges appear to rule more favorably and take longer when deciding over conflicted cases than when deciding over unconflicted ones. We also find that investors are positively surprised by these outcomes, as reflected by stock returns to case outcomes. Collectively, our results provide the first large-scale evidence of the relation between judgesโ financial holdings and case outcomes.
New paper using our data shows a correlation between case outcomes and judicial investment conflicts. "We find robust evidence that judges appear to rule more favorably and take longer when deciding over conflicted cases" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A chart showing our PDF downloads for the past three months. The X axis is omitted because the chart generator is wonky, but the trend is up and to the right!
CourtListener's daily web traffic is up about 2ร, and our PDF traffic is up much more than that (see chart below). If you like what we're doing, we could surely use more support! donate.free.law/forms/donate
This is why every law firm that practices in any federal court should install the Recap extension on their browser.
What does FLP have to do with Mount Everest, Taylor Swift, backyard chickens, and the residents of Chicago, DC, Boston, and Denver??
Read our Director's EOY Letter to find out!!
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In the 1970s, jeans werenโt considered presidential. Then came President Jimmy Carter.
Carter, who died on Sunday, would prove to be an Oval Office trendsetter. Nearly all the presidents who followed him were captured wearing jeans while in office.
Continuing our look at Free Law Project in 2024.
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Mostly alerts to keep people updated on the cases they are interested in. (We also help people with forgotten passwords)
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Checking out the scope of Free Law Project's work in 2024. This one is for the Swifties!
To learn about what we have in store for 2025, read this letter from our Executive Director - free.law/fundraiser/2...
Our annual letter is out! In it, we discuss our successes from 2024 and our plans for 2025. Give it a read and please consider a donation to support this work. (Link at end of thread.)
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