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• Society: Law  (23,431)

• AltLaw - Provides search for U.S. Supreme and Federal Appeals Court decisions from the last 5 to 10 years.
• Bushell's Case - The British tradition of right to trial in defamation cases mentioned above dates back to a series of cases in the 1600's, most famously Bushell's case. This case led to a landmark decision , holding that jurors in defamation cases could not be punished for ignoring the court's instructions on the law, what later came to be known as "jury nullification," the power of juries to decide both issues of law and fact.
• Court refuses trial by combat - A UK court has rejected Leon Humphreys’ attempt to invoke the ancient right to trial by combat, rather than pay a £25 fine for a minor motoring offence.
• An Essay on the Trial By Jury - Overview of jury trials in the early Republic and their predecessors in Great Britain by Lysander Spooner. Published 1852 .
• History of Trial by Jury - Authored by William Forsyth. Focuses on the immediate and documentable lineage of our modern jury system from its roots in northern Europe and Scandanavia. Covers the evolution of both theory and practice.
• Law Office of Lewis A. Mettler - Updates and opinion relating to antitrust allegations against Microsoft.
• Legal Information Institute - Primary legal materials and links to a wide array of U.S. and international legal reference websites. From Cornell Law School.
• Magna Carta - A translation of the Magna Carta of 1215 from Latin into modern English. This translation sets out to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin. Has some notes about the context of the feudal society in order to further comprehension to modern readers.
• Orphan Works - Orphan works are any copyrighted works where the rights-holder is hard to find. Because the cost of finding the owner is so high, creators can't build on orphan works, even when they'd be willing to pay to use them. In many cases the works were abandoned because they no longer produced any income. In most cases, rights holders, once found, are delighted to have their work used.
• Sound Recordings pre 1972: Legal Language Services - sound recordings and copyright law
• Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society - Legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is concerned with this evolving area of law.
• State and Federal Cases and Codes - An unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the Federal Supplement, and the Federal Appendix.
• Trial By Combat may still be a valid form of ajudicating disputes in Maryland - A part of the Maryland Constitution defines the common law of Maryland as the Common Law of England as of July 4, 1776 which includes the right of Trial by Combat. English Parliment outlawed the practise in an emergency sesssion in 1850. Maryland however, never followed suit, so technically Trial by combat remains "on the books" of Maryland Common Law.
• Truth in Justice - A non-profit organization working to free innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit, and to prevent wrongful convictions by alerting the public to the vulnerabilities in the U.S. criminal justice system that make these miscarriages possible.
• TuxRocks - Legal Links covering the legal cases of SCO Vs. the world.

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