Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Abstract
In November 2006, Washington University School of Law launched a new internet resource, the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Completely free and accessible to the public, its web address is . The Clearinghouse vastly expands tie availability of information about and documents from civil rights cases of many different types, allowing researchers to find and read source documents and litigation summaries for over eighteen hundred litigations (and counting). The collection is organized by case; it follows cases from their start to finish, however many courts or opinions are involved, and however long the case takes. For each entry, in the collection, the Clearinghouse posts the crucial unpublished documents along with citations to published opinions and a litigation sumnmary. In addition, its database indexes the case category, issues, court, date, etc., as well as each lawyer and judge involved The result is an easily searchable digital repository that makes readily available many thousands of otherwise inaccessible case documents. The collection focuses on class-action injunctive litigation, as well as litigation by the US. Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Recommended Citation
Schlanger, Margo. "The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse A New Digitized Archive at Washington University in St. Louis." Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 17 (2007): 19-26.
Comments
Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This work was published when author was not on Michigan Law faculty and is included here at the author's request.