If you're in any way involved with the legal process, prepare to be excited. All others may commence groaning.
Thanks to the fine folks at Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, 1.8 million pages of federal case law are now freely available under a Creative Commons license. This includes all Supreme Court decisions since 1754, and all Appeals Court decisions from 1950 to present.
It's not exactly what I'd call enthralling reading, but next time you're in a tough spot legally, and you don't want to spring the gazillion bucks an hour for a lawyer, now you won't have to head down to the nearest university so you can piggyback their access to Lexis Nexus. Just head on over to Public.Resource.Org.
In addition to having the scans and raw text of these documents, the Public.Resource team also is endeavoring to convert the documents to Wiki, as well as implement a slightly social ratings (or Digg) style feature to it (boy, that has to be exciting work).
I wonder of the Ron Paul brigade will migrate from Digg over to the legal archive social network? Ron Paul's a big fan of the Constitution, right?