A legal research service free to members of the State Bar of Georgia is suing the Georgia secretary of state’s designated publisher of the state’s administrative rules and regulations, contending that the publisher’s exclusive contract with the state does not give it a right to copyright public laws and regulations.
Fastcase Inc. has asked a federal judge in Atlanta for an injunction and a declaratory judgment against Virginia-based Lawriter LLC that would bar Lawriter from impeding Fastcase’s publication of Georgia’s code of administrative rules and regulations. The regulations detail how state laws should be executed by state agencies and govern areas such as consumer protection, banking, elections, ethics and professional licensing. They are considered to be binding law.
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