Thanks Andy. We're also in the midst of releasing the Collaborative Open Legal Dataset ("COLD cases") specifically aimed at AI/ML work. More tk. https://huggingface.co/datasets/harvard-lil/cold-cases
Unfortunately Caselaw limits access to the full text bulk data of most jurisdictions without a research account and I’m trying to find an alternative.
That's only true until Feb of 2024! It should be totally unrestricted in a few months.
Any idea why they're time limited? I assumed that was a license restriction from reporters or FastCase, et. al. which would have been permanent.
This should have more up-to-date and accurate information than I do: https://case.law/about
Please let me know how you find using the data and if you'd like to see any additions or changes!
I only just started yesterday but so far so good!
Having it in Parquet files on Git LFS makes a huge difference. It only took a few lines to add the entire dataset to our CI/CD cache which is an improvement over the ingestion scripts we have to normally write with change detection and all that. It took less than an hour to start running the cases through our pipeline - I wish all of the GovInfo bulk data were available this way!