Casemaker: Helpful Changes in Your Online Legal Research
| Publication year | 2010 |
| Pages | 22 |
Casemaker: Helpful Changes in Your Online Legal Research
Casemaker has been upgraded as a part of Lawriter's continuing quest to meet the needs and desires of KBA members in a legal research tool. Casemaker is not just any online legal research product; it is your online legal research assistant whose only desire is to help find what you need as quickly and efficiently as possible.
New Additions to the State Libraries
There are two types of state and District of Colimbia libraries, those that belong to consortium members (such as Kansas) and those that belong to nonconsortium members. State libraries belonging to consortium members offer a wide variety of legal information pertinent to that state. Nonconsortium member state libraries only offer case law, statutes, and regulations.
One of the wonderful new additions to consortium member libraries are the session laws. These are updated after each state's legislature finishes its legislative session. They will appear as a book in the consortium member's state library. When using the browse function, the House or Senate Bill number will appear along with a short description of the bill. By clicking on the hyperlink, you will then be taken to the full text of the bill, which shows the amendments to any statutes in the bill. Additionally, the SuperCode links will continue to appear in statutes that have been amended and will provide links to the bill in the Session Laws, which amended the statutes. The statutes also have an archive link at the end of each statute that will now allow you to view the prior legislative history of a statute.
Casemaker has also expanded the case databases in the state libraries and has added additional features. The case database for Kansas now goes back to 1931. Also, when you use the link to read a case, you will find not only pagination for the main citation, but also pagination for parallel citations, and footnotes are also linked. These upgrades are also available in the federal case databases.
Other Additions to Casemaker
Casemaker has upgraded Casecheck to Casecheck+. This is a low-cost, high-value, member-optional subscription; if you choose not to subscribe individually to it, Casecheck will continue to appear and work the same. However, should you choose to subscribe to Casecheck+, an alert banner will appear at the...
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