The Emory Law School, in cooperation with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is now the Internet repository for all published decisions handed down by the court. For the first time, anyone with Internet access can enter the Emory site electronically and read the full-text versions of 11th Circuit cases. The service is made possible through the Information Technology Services (ITS) department of Emory Law Library.
"This service is a natural extension of the information services that the law library has always provided to the legal community," said Dean Howard O. Hunter. "Now, instead of just reaching out to the local Atlanta bar, we are able to provide legal information to a world-wide community."
"We are very excited by this technology," noted Deborah Keene, associate director of the law library. "We anticipate that this will be the first step in a program of adding even more legal resources."
In cooperation with the 11th Circuit, the law library has taken cases beginning November 1994 and converted them into the Internet's standard Web format. The cases are then published through the library's Web server which, in turn, is accessible from all over the world.
In order to aid researchers, the library's ITS department has made the cases completely key word-searchable and indexed them by date and title. The cases can be downloaded to the user's computer in Rich Text Format (RTF), a file format that can be read by almost every PC and Mac.
To access the law library's 11th Circuit cases, launch any World Wide Web browser and open "http://www.law.emory. edu/11circuit/index.html" to see the main menu.
This information is provided free to the Internet community as a public service by the University. For more information, contact William Morse, ITS, School of Law (e-mail address: "wmorse@law .emory.edu").
-- Elaine Justice