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325 Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court Now Available from
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute via the Internet
and on CD-ROM
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Until recently, the LII's coverage of Supreme Court decisions at
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
began with the first decisions the Court itself released in electronic
format in the spring of 1991. Over the past year the Legal Information
Institute began adding significant numbers of pre-1991 decisions to its
Internet collection, most obtained by the LII under license from
Infosynthesis, publisher of the USSC+ CD-ROM.
The enthusiastic response to this initial historic collection prompted the
LII to undertake preparation of a CD-ROM of its own. This is a collection
of selected historic decisions rather than a comprehensive library like
the USSC+ disk, and is designed for general reference and educational use
rather than as lawyer's tool. The disk is now available from the LII for
$25 per copy, plus $ 7 shipping and handling. It requires Windows 3.1,
Windows95, or MS-DOS to run and a computer with at least 4 MB of ram plus 5
MB of available hard disk space. The software platform is Folio VIP 3.01 by
the Folio Corporation, Provo, Utah.
Set up for use by those who are not experts in either constitutional law
or search software, the disk contains "point and click" tables that
guide retrieval of decisions -- by topic, by name, by judge, by era.
In addition it offers full text search and other features for more
experienced users.
These same historic decisions are now also available from the LII via the
Internet at http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/historic.htm
with similar access tables.
The CD-ROM version includes numerous features that cannot be
extended across the Net. The disk software facilitates printing and
copying of individual decisions in full or in summary. It allows
teachers, librarians, or others to create their own tailor-made menus of
decisions and to edit decisions down to a size and focus appropriate to a
particular class or other set of users. Finally, it enables users to add
bookmarks, notes, and other forms of personal annotation.
Ranging from Marbury v. Madison (1803) through the most recent term, the
collection, assembled with the advice of a panel of educators, includes
those decisions that most reflect or have had deepest effect on the
country's history.
For the full list visit
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm
To obtain more information or to order, contact:
Ms. Linda Majeroni
Legal Information Institute
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
E-mail: majeroni@law.mail.cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-6536
Fax: 607-255-7193
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