> Please let me know how you find using the data and if you'd like to see any additions or changes!
I only just started yesterday but so far so good!
Having it in Parquet files on Git LFS makes a huge difference. It only took a few lines to add the entire dataset to our CI/CD cache which is an improvement over the ingestion scripts we have to normally write with change detection and all that. It took less than an hour to start running the cases through our pipeline - I wish all of the GovInfo bulk data were available this way!
To be clear, they are all in the public domain— Fastcase updates included. All of the proprietary info was redacted by hand and the opinions themselves are not copyrightable. The throttling is a contractual obligation to a project partner that limits Harvard's distribution of the cases until Feb of 2024, but that's it. There are also exceptions— cases where the publication is no longer in copyright, and jurisdictions that already publish their opinions online... There are 3 or 4. Those are accessible without throttling through the API and through bulk downloads right now.
This should have more up-to-date and accurate information than I do:
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