[blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

[lmendez716 at gmail.com]

Good afternoon:

I use to be able to download the cases  from Westlaw as Word documents. Is that know longer possible? 

Luis
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From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Julie McGinnity via BlindLaw
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 9:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [blindLaw] Accessing Case Text Without Citations etc.

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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