[blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

[Vaughn Brown]

Hello, Syed,

Are you able to access Westlaw? You also can use the citations to find
cases online. Most cases should be free to access, too. The citations
should give you the cases you need if put into a search engine.

Hope this helps!

Vaughn

On 5/18/21, Syed Rizvi via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Julie,
>
> Thank you so much. These are word docs from West Law. On the actual site,
> there are headings etc. I can navigate by. Thank you so much!
>
> Syed
>
>> On May 18, 2021, at 9:12 PM, Julie McGinnity via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, the others are right. This was a great annoyance to me
>> too once I started law school. I would advise though either reading
>> the cases directly on Westlaw if you can or trying to convert the case
>> files into HTML perhaps. Sometimes if you get a case file taken from
>> Westlaw and put into Word, there are actually an unreasonable amount
>> of distracting things, including links in the text. Also, sometimes
>> case files thrown into word documents end up in columns. That was
>> another nasty surprise I never hope for anyone to encounter. Reading
>> the cases straight from Westlaw though isn't bad.
>>
>> Julie
>>
>>> On 5/18/21, Angie Matney via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> As others have said, there's no good way to eliminate this information.
>>> If
>>> you are a JAWS user and you don't already do this, you might try using a
>>> sound scheme that announces funt and attribute changes. I find this
>>> helpful
>>> because hearing JAWS say that a case name is in italics helps delineate
>>> things for me.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Angie
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On May 18, 2021, at 5:48 PM, Syed Rizvi via BlindLaw
>>>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I am currently taking a law school prep course. The cases we are reading
>>>> are pulled from West Law. There are numerous citation numbers, footers
>>>> and
>>>> stuff that is not the text of the case. I understand all these citations
>>>> etc. are important, but for my purpose, I would like to access just the
>>>> text of the case, as trying to listen for the text amongst all the
>>>> numbers
>>>> is really driving me up the wall. Is there a solution to this?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much!
>>>>
>>>> Respectfully,
>>>>    Syed Rizvi
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>>
>> --
>> Julie A. McGinnity
>> MM Vocal Performance, 2015; American University Washington College of
>> Law, JD Candidate 2023
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