It was the scandal of the summer: AshleyMadison.com, the dating and social networking service that markets itself to would-be cheaters, was cyberattacked, and the names and contact information of purported members—including celebrities, congressional staffers and evangelists—were revealed online. Soon after, plaintiffs lawyers lodged class action litigation on behalf of website users. The chain of events—a high-profile data hack, followed by ...

In the past if anyone wanted to research legal history they had to be willing to physically search through legal documentation at a courthouse. In today’s world all judicial records are posted in real time online via the Internet. The truth is that every court from local to federal often chooses to publish the legal decisions made each day on ...