The law is public. Reading it should not cost money.
In practice, it does. A state's regulations sit behind a login. Court rules are
scanned PDFs nobody can search. The annotated code that actually tells you what a
statute means costs more per year than a legal aid clinic spends on rent. The
people who most need to read the law are the least able to pay for the privilege,
and everyone in this industry knows it and quietly accepts it.
We… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law.
