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Key parts of US laws are hard for the public to find and read

  • Written by D. R. Jones, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library, University of Memphis
Key parts of US laws are hard for the public to find and readThe full text of a law may not be in this book – nor in its online equivalent.RunPhoto/The Image Bank via Getty Images

It happens in court cases from time to time: Lawyers and judges discussing the meaning of a law can’t access the text they need to review.

It happened in a federal court in Rhode Island in 2004 and in the Indiana...

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