Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
- Digital gateway to primary law, public records, treatises and legal forms
Fastcase’s libraries include Federal primary law and primary law from all 50 states. The collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. The Loislaw Treatise Library includes a collection of treatises arranged by practice areas.
- News writing standards: grammar, spelling, punctuation, names and abbreviations of government bodies, media conglomerate ownership, Freedom of Information Act, libel and copyright infringement, more
- Basic communications law text icludes: USA Patriot Act, Critical Infrastructure Information Act exemption to the Freedom of Information Act, government initiatives following terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, FCC regulations of low-power radio service, digital television (DTV), high-definition television (HDTV), digital must-carry regulations, more
- Survey of media law from a comparative perspective
- Issues include: media law and evolving concepts of democracy, network neutrality, traffic management, public service broadcasting in Europe, interception of communication, surveillance in Russia, state secrets, leaks and the media
- Non-profit information clearinghouse
- Actions Against Online Speech: Incidents within the U.S. in which online speech is threatened through libel suits, criminal investigations, or other means