The law behind the other four, free to read.
The Law Center is Enclerk.com’s library of the law of government work in California: the statutes whole with every version, the decisions of the California courts and the federal courts in California, and the opinions of the Attorney General. Each decision has a summary and its holdings, every citation is a link, and a search box reads a citation, a section number, a party’s name or a plain question. It needs no account.
What it is for
A clerk, a records officer, a city attorney or a member of the public asks what the law says and what the courts have made of it. The Law Center answers from the texts: the section, the decisions that construe it, each summarized with the points it decided, and the Attorney General’s opinions beside them. The same library stands behind the four products, whose clocks, notices and letters cite it.
Who uses it
The clerk’s office
The statute behind a deadline or a notice, in the words of the code, with the decisions on it one click away.
The attorney’s office
Case law research: a citation looked up in any form, a decision’s summary and holdings, what cites it and what it cites, and the citations of a brief checked.
The public
The law that governs a request, a meeting, a claim or a subpoena, readable without a subscription or an account.
What the site does
A library in four shelves
Case law, statutes, regulations and administrative decisions, each with its text and its history, and every citation in a text a link to the document it names.
Summaries and holdings
A one paragraph summary and the holdings of each decision read, written in advance and kept with the collection; a flag that says how later decisions treated it.
One search box
Plain English or terms and connectors; a citation in any close form opens its document; filters by court, year, kind and issue; your searches and reading kept in your browser as your history.
What it never does
- Nothing on the site is written while you read it. Every summary, holding and headnote was written in advance, is part of the collection, and changes only when the collection does.
- It gives legal information, not legal advice. Whether a record must be disclosed, a meeting noticed or a claim allowed depends on its facts.
- It asks for no account, no email and no payment. What you search and read stays in your browser.
- It keeps the court’s own words, from public sources whose terms allow it, and says on every page where the text came from.
Read it
The Law Center is open to anyone. Start with a citation, a section number or a question.
Opinion text from CourtListener, a project of the Free Law Project, and from the Caselaw Access Project. The summaries, holdings and flags are the Law Center’s own.