Justia is an American website specializing in

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. It was founded in 2003 by Tim Stanley, formerly of FindLaw, and is one of the largest online databases of legal cases. The company is headquartered in

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. The website offers free case law, codes, opinion summaries, and other basic legal texts, with paid services for its attorney directory and webhosting. In 2007, ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'' reported that Justia was spending around "$10,000 a month" in order "to copy documents" from the

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and publish them online, to be made available without the public paying fees. Law library research guides often refer to Justia.

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's law library's research guide notes how it's helpful for PACER.

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