From ProgrammableWeb
CourtListener API is Sharing the Potential of Open Data
By Mark Boyd
Open data—from both government and private sources—has great potential for creating new products, reducing the costs of doing business, and improving people’s lives....
The CourtListener website is a not-for-profit project managed by the Free Law Project. It collates data from court websites and other sources, aiming to provide a comprehensive database of all court law opinions made in the United States....
“With our bulk API, it is a giant XML file that people have been using for a couple of years now. It’s used a lot in research, and we track the number of downloads to get a feel for its use,” the CourtListener co-founders, Mike Lissner and Brian Carver, told ProgrammableWeb....
“CourtListener is making legal opinions more accessible on a number of fronts,” Raymond Yee, visiting scholar/lecturer in the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley, told ProgrammableWeb. Yee runs an annual course in open data where students are encouraged to design commercially viable products built off open data sources....