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United States caselaw is collected and published as open data by [CourtListener](https://www.courtlistener.com/), which maintains scrapers to aggregate data from
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Prepared by the [Harvard Library Innovation Lab](https://lil.law.harvard.edu) in collaboration with the [Free Law Project](https://free.law/).
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United States caselaw is collected and published as open data by [CourtListener](https://www.courtlistener.com/), which maintains scrapers to aggregate data from
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A key input to legal computation tasks is caselaw -- the published, precedential decisions of judges deciding legal disputes and explaining their reasoning.
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United States caselaw is collected and published as open data by CourtListener, which maintains scrapers to aggregate data from a wide range of public sources,
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[including the Library Innovation Lab’s Caselaw Access Project].
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COLD Cases reformats CourtListener's [bulk data](https://www.courtlistener.com/help/api/bulk-data) so that all of the semantic information about each legal decision
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(the authors and text of majority and dissenting opinions; head matter; and substantive metadata) is encoded in a single JSON object per decision,
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with extraneous data removed. Serving in the traditional role of libraries as a standardization steward, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is maintaining
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this [open source](https://github.com/harvard-lil/cold-cases-export) pipeline to consolidate the data engineering for preprocessing caselaw so downstream machine
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learning and natural language processing projects can use consistent, high quality representations of cases for legal understanding tasks.
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Prepared by the [Harvard Library Innovation Lab](https://lil.law.harvard.edu) in collaboration with the [Free Law Project](https://free.law/).
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