Mashup Camp Entry: Legal Annotations

Mashup Name:	Justia Legal Annotations
Developer name(s):	Nicholas Moline
Contact info:	650-996-1889, email me at nick at the justia.com domain
Description of Mashup:	Justia.com contains tons of free legal information dockets.justia.com contains civil cases filed in US Federal District Courts since 2004 cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/ contains cases filed in the US Court of Appeals since 1950 supreme.justia.com contains every supreme court case filed in US history law.justia.com contains the full US Code, and the state codes for most of the US States, as well as local municipality codes for various cities. We also provide an extensive Lawyer Directory at lawyers.justia.com which strives to get all lawyers. One of our long term goals was once lawyers authenticate themselves with the Lawyer Directory, we wanted them to be able to annotate the law and cases on those various legal information portals listed above (and others), to explain the often complex aspects of the Law to the Consumers. Some of the difficulties always were 1) Making it easy for the Lawyers to use, and 2) having a login on one site control their ability to edit multiple sites. With Wet Paint, I was able to mash up wiki sections into our content in under 2 days, with authentication from our own lawyer directory and the ability to reward the lawyers who annotate cases and the law with karma points which effect their rankings in the Lawyer Directory, so the lawyers that show up higher when looked for by consumers, are the ones who contribute the most to getting legal information back out there to consumers.
Mashup Code:	Code Snips Here (but I'm adding more to the site all the time)

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