Posts marked "code"

New website just dropped!

May 31, 2021

It's been a while since my last post about my citation lookup software, so I figured I ought to post an update on the development status. The biggest news is that it has its own website now: citation.link! It can do the same citation lookups that Law Search does …

Law Search supports state laws now!

Feb 25, 2021

I've been working more on my citation lookup program, and I'm happy to announce you can now use it to look up state laws! Previously, apart from court cases, it only covered federal and California law. Now, it can look up statutes for every U.S. state and territory except …

Law Search

Nov 24, 2020

UPDATE: Nowadays, I host an even fancier citation lookup tool at citation.link! Type a legal citation into the box below, and I'll try to send you to whatever it references: // This script was made with CiteURL v10.0.7, an extensible framework // to turn legal references into URLs. // // The …

I Made a Search Engine to Look up Legal Citations!

Nov 17, 2020

I've integrated the lookup tools I'd been working on into one unified search engine for legal citations. It reads a citation and tries to pull up the relevant statute or legal opinion. If you reference a subsection of a law, it'll try to go directly to that. Same for pincites …

Exhibiter - A Python Program to Organize Evidence

Sep 12, 2020

When I was working at the Eviction Defense Network this past summer, one of my jobs was to put together jury documents---that is, sets of documents that would be shared with opposing counsel and eventually the court in preparation for jury trials. One aspect of this was to collect all …