Courts
A few local courts have their own web sites. In Santa Clara, see
the Superior Court at
http://claraweb.co.santa-clara.ca.us/sct.
You can check the status of any case
in any Appellate or Supreme Court proceeding in California through
this site
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions.
By navigating through the site, you can even
register to be notified of specific opinions, or check the record
of a particular case (for example see:
http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/dockets.cfm?dist=6&doc_id=22136&div=&case=H021961)
You can also find information on cases in Federal Court by visiting
the Supreme Court's site
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html
or any of the Federal Appellate sites.
California is in the 9th Circuit their site is at
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov.
Personal and Civil Rights & Criminal Law
The American Civil Liberties Union provides information on civil
rights on their site at
www.aclu.org.
They publish a downloadable document on individual's rights when contacted
by police - http://www.aclu.org/library/bustcard.html, or you can view the guidelines in your browser by clicking
here.
The U.S. Government is required to make much of its internal information
available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. For
information on obtaining data under FOIA, you can visit the
Justice Department's FOIA information page
at
http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/index.html.
Organizations
The TBD has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.EFF.org,
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
www.IEEE.org
the Computer Communications Industry Association
http://www.ccia.org
and The First Amendment Project
www.thefirstamendment.org.
Each of these groups provides information on technology
and the law.
Our attorneys donate time to community projects,
including the Community Technology Alliance
www.ctagroup.org.
CTA is dedicated to using technology to help homeless and at risk adults
and children. Many of our attorneys also donate time and resources
to a number of different projects at our local university
http://www.scu.edu, including their
award-winning legal newspaper The Santa Clara Advocate
www.scuadvocate.org.