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Cited in a 2019 amicus brief by Matthew Bender & Co. to the United States Supreme Court.
The issue: Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to — and thus renders uncopyrightable — works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated


Cited by Legal Information Alert
(Sept. 2004) as one of the Top 20
Innovations and Services
in the field
of legal information in the past ten years.
Their list also included Google.


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- Donna Bausch in Law Practice Management

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- David Bachman in Law Books in Review

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- New York State Bar Journal

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- A leading academic law library director


   

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Kendall F. Svengalis Recipient of the 1999 Connie E. Bolden Significant Publications Award
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Kendall F. Svengalis Recipient of the 1998 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award
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