The trend toward providing more free online access to court opinions got a massive boost recently in both Canada and the U.S. In Canada, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the copyright holder of the Ontario Reports, made available to CanLII the full historical collection of OR case reports (15,000 decisions published from 1931 to 2013), increasing CanLII’s database for Ontario courts by about 25%.

In the United States, the federal Judiciary and the Government Printing Office partnered through the GPO’s Federal Digital System, FDsys, to provide public access to more than 750,000 opinions, many dating back to 2004. In addition to PACER, this is another source to access court-related information. [via InfoDocket]