ResearchRoundup - Slip Opinion Listservers
By Kathy Biehl, Published on July 15, 2000
There’s no need to wait for the advance sheets to arrive in the mail, if a slip opinion listserver or notification service is available for the jurisdictions you follow. Though traditional fee-based subscription services exist, a number of these list emanate directly from courts, at no cost. This list represents my most recent tally of both types of alert services and will be periodically updated. The fee-based listings include services that are available at no additional charge to paid subscribers of a publication or members of an organization.
Free Slip Opinion Listservers
U.S.Supreme Court / Fifth Circuit / Ninth Circuit Alabama / Illinois / Massachusetts / New York / North Dakota / Tennessee / Texas
To
receive the Report of Decisions’ official syllabi of opinions the day
they are issued, send the message “subscribe liibulletin [your name]”
to listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu. (Do not use brackets, and replace
“[your name]” with the name for the subscription.) This service is
provided by the Legal
Information Institute at Cornell School of Law. FindLaw’s
Supreme Court announcement list sends out abstracts of recent cases.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
The Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals sends out opinions by e-mail as they are
released; subscribe at the Court’s site.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Subscribe
at FindLaw
to receive e-mails abstracts of slip opinions as they are released.
Wallace,
Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C. sends out descriptions of the
previous week’s Supreme Court opinions; subscribe at the firm’s
Website.
Illinois
Court Reports sends e-mail notification of new opinions.
The
Social Law Library alerts mailing list members to state appellate
decisions as they are issued. (Although membership is necessary to use the
library, it is not to subscribe to this service.)
For
an analysis of recent Court of Appeals decisions (which may be two weeks),
send the message “subscribe liibulletin-ny [your name]” to listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu.
This is another service of Cornell’s
Legal Information Institute.
North Dakota
The Supreme
Court notifies list members when new opinions have been issued.
TBALink
Opinion-Flash, a service of the Tennessee Bar Association, distributes the
latest appellate decisions by e-mail to anyone (not merely bar members)
who subscribes at http://tba.org/op-flash.html.
The Court of Appeals of the
Fifth Judicial District
The Court of Appeals of the
Fifth Judicial District will e-mail you your choice of civil,
criminal, published or all opinions. Look for the vNotices! icon at the site.
Fee-Based
Slip Opinion Services
Ninth Circuit / California / Colorado / Georgia / Massachusetts / Michigan / Missouri / New Jersey / North Carolina / Ohio / Texas / Virginia
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
JuriSearch
subscribers receive Ninth Circuit opinions the day after their release.
A Cal
Law subscription includes daily opinions by e-mail.
The
Colorado State Bar e-mails summaries of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
decisions to bar members; sign
up here.
E-mail notification of
newly issued Georgia appellate decisions comes with a paid subscription to
Daily Report Online.
Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals slip opinions by e-mail.
Michigan
Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals slip opinions by e-mail.
Missouri
Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals slip opinions by e-mail.
New
Jersey Law Journal offers an e-mail service summarizing state, federal
and administrative decisions. The Web page does not give pricing, but
instructs readers to phone for information.
Ohio
Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme Court slip
opinions by e-mail.
North
Carolina Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme
Court and Court of Appeals slip opinions by e-mail.
TexLaw
subscribers may receive daily e-mail alerts of the latest opinions.
Virginia
Lawyers Weekly subscribers may sign up to receive Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals slip opinions by e-mail.
The
Daily Opinion Service allows visitors to retrieve summaries of slip
opinions (from all state courts and federal district courts, the Circuit
Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court and some specialized courts) that
have been issued within the previous two weeks – including the current
day, if it is during the work week. There is no charge to run searches or
view summaries of core terms in the opinions. To read an opinion, you must
have a Web subscription to LEXIS-NEXIS or purchase the document by credit
card.
Loislaw.com
subscribers may set up the LOIS LawWatch feature to e-mail new caselaw
(and other developments) in areas selected by the user. (Alternatively,
this feature saves the updates on the user’s personal Loislaw.com start
page.)
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