April 3 - Law school briefs. The 2004 US News & World Report law school rankings are coming! US News will make a premium online (pay) edition available on their website April 4, with a print edition shipping April 7. Meanwhile, Lawschool.com says that the most interesting movers in the top tier for 2004 are Cornell (up) and Boalt (down). [JURIST's Paper Chase]

Emory slips to 27 from 25.  I notice there seem to be fewer ties this year.  That's a good thing.

12:04:15 PM    comment []  

Emory Law Schools stops posting new 11th Circuit cases.

As predicted, Emory has stopped posting new cases from the 11th circuit now that the court is posting them in a user-friendly fashion.  From Will Haines, the librarian in charge of the project:

Just a note to let you know that we are no longer posting current Eleventh Circuit opinions on Emory Law School's Web site. Instead, we show a link from our site to the Eleventh Circuit's Opinions page(http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/). Our site will continue to hold archived opinions from November 1994 to March 2003.

In related news, you'll see that the Federal Courts Finder now contains links to federal courts for all fifty states, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (http://www.law.emory.edu/caselaw/).

Will

This brings the curtain down on a project that ran for nearly nine years and initially included opinions for 6 courts.  Emory was among a handful of law schools that began posting Circuit court cases in the summer and fall of 1994.  By late 1994 all of the Circuit Courts of Appeal were supplying reported cases to law schools who hosted websites for the courts.  Now, nearly nine years later, all of the circuits have their opinions available on the web at their own sites, though a number of schools including Touro Law Center and Pace Law School (2nd), Villanova School of Law (3rd), and Washburn School of Law Library (10th) continue to post new cases and maintain archives.

Now if someone would come up with RSS feeds of reported cases...

9:49:17 AM    comment []