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Since Supreme Court decisions are U.S. government documents, their texts are public domain and may be freely copied and retransmitted. Copyright in the underlying marked up files which implement the hypertext features licensed from USSC+ is held by by Infosynthesis, Inc. Copyright in the hypertext markup and editorial material added by the Legal Information Institute is held by Cornell University.

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USSC+

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LEXIS

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