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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:23:55 EDT
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- From: Steven Kriby <kirby@ATHENA.CS.UGA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Law Software on CD-ROM
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- In-Reply-To: <9209022148.AA06286@athena.cs.uga.edu>; from "Alvin H. White" at
- Sep 1, 92 6:23 pm
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- If I'm not mistaken, FLITE was the basis for West Publishing's
- Westlaw Computer Assisted Legal Research Service. Anybody from a
- law library know for sure?
-
- --Steve
-
- Steven Kirby
- University of Georgia
- kirby@athena.cs.uga.edu
- >
- > "Gerald A. Smith" <gsmith@GUNTER-EMH.AF.MIL> writes:
- >
- > >Does anyone know of any decent law data/text retrieval on CD-ROM?
- > >We're wanting to replace our law books, if possible, with the same. Also,
- > does
- > > it work on a LAN? Appreciate knowing pricing and any other useful
- > information.
- >
- > About 10 or 15 years ago I heard of a thing called FLITE. I think it was
- > under the Air Force and located in Colorado. Federal Legal Information
- > Through Electronics (FLITE). Was thinking of it several months ago
- > and did some search of one of the on-line internet libraries in Colorado,
- > and if I remember right I got a couple of hits on some annual reports
- > about 1975-80.
- >
- > That was not CD-Rom in those days but it was digital. I think they had
- > the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and maybe parts of the United
- > States Code. I would look for precedential information in archives of
- > the United States Department of Justice and the Air Force Judge
- > Advocate General's Office and the committee reports of the U.S. Senate
- > and House of Representatives committees dealing with the Department
- > of Defense Budget.
- >
- > Good Luck. Sure hope someone finds something. Trying to maintain
- > public defense without ready access to the laws is sub-optimal.
- >
- >
- > alvin@netcom.com
- >
- > Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
- > G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
- > 1505 De Rose Way #66
- > San Jose, CA 95126 USA
- >
- > (408) 286-2794
- > (408) 286-4244
- >
- > Government Online Database Systems
- > Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
- > [an idea waiting to happen]
- >
- > 120 West 38 North
- >
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