SA国际传媒 School of Law Makes Available Thousands of Pages of Documents from ObamaCare Litigation Across the U.S.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2012 —Fresh off the Supreme Court’s historic validation of what’s become known as ObamaCare, SA国际传媒 School of Law announces the availability of a The collection contains briefs, memos, opinions, and other court documents filed as part of the scores of lawsuits that have attempted to overturn ObamaCare in full or in part since its passage in 2010.
The collection, being made available through the school’s Heafey Law Library, has been an ongoing project between the library and SA国际传媒 Law professor Bradley Joondeph, a nationally recognized constitutional law scholar and author of a . The collection, available to legal scholars or any other users with an interest in the subject, is believed to be the largest collection of such materials in an open-access archive.
The documents are fully indexed and full-text searchable. SA国际传媒 School of Law intends to maintain the ACA collection in perpetuity to preserve the legal history of these cases and their impact on national political discourse.
SA国际传媒’s law school’s digital preservation efforts are part of a wider move towards greater, more-open access for legal scholarship and court documetns, as outlined in the so-called “,” created by a group convened at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
"This collection is a unique legal history of the ACA, and represents our continuing commitment to open-access legal research and scholarship," said David Holt, electronic services law librarian at Heafey.
For more information about the collection (http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/aca/), please contact Mr. Holt at dholt@scu.edu or 408-554-5195.