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Amicus Brief in the Georgia Code Case for Law Students and Practioners in Solo Practice or Small Law Firms

Action Item If you are a law student or solo/small firm practitioner, ⇉ click here to sign this amicus brief. ⇇ The signing period will close midnight May 9, 2019. Hello LAW PROFESSORS, LAW LIBRARIANS AND LEGAL EDUCATORS! We love you too! If you՚d like to sign, please ⇉ click here to sign this amicus brief. ⇇ Background In 2013, Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit corporation based in California, purchased, scanned, and posted the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA). The OCGA is the one and only official law of the State of Georgia, but the state objected vociferously to this wanton promulgation, maintaining that the only party who could make the OCGA available was their designated commercial vendor. Any other use would be a copyright violation. The State of Georgia sued Public Resource in the U.S. District Court and received judgement in their favor including a federal injunction prohibiting any and all dissemination of the code. (View the District Court Docket ) Public Resource appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and won a resounding 3-0 victory. (View the Appellate Docket and the Opinion ) The State of Georgia has now appealed to the U.S. Supreme C

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