Justia
justia.com
Free US case law, codes, and regulations with clean permanent URLs. Paste opinion pages as Website sources for legal research notebooks.
Justia's case law and code pages use stable, permanent URLs, which matters because most free legal research sites either paywall full opinions or change their links over time, breaking anything pasted into a notebook earlier. That makes it a dependable base for a legal research notebook built from actual court opinions rather than summaries. What it doesn't have is the editorial annotation and headnote layer that a paid service like Westlaw adds on top of the raw text.
Import into Gemini Notebook
- 1Copy the link above (or a specific page from the site).
- 2In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
- 3Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.
Government sites publish authenticated PDFs of bills, filings and records — import those directly rather than a search results page.
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