Blackacre Reports

blackacrereports.org, a project of Blackacre Labs

Read, annotate, and discuss the judicial opinions of the United States Supreme Court.

Data

Data files containing Supreme Court opinion texts and case metadata are developed as a sister project, the United States Reporter, also on GitHub:

BlackacreLabs/unitedstatesreporter

Hacking

Please see the contribution guide for tips and guidelines:

CONTRIBUTING.md

Stack

You will need to reproduce or emulate the following services:

• Rack server to run the application
• MongoDB for data storage
• Git on $PATH for data updates
• Amazon Web Services S3 for case PDFs and other files

You can use a .env file to manage credentials on your development machine. See .env.example to get started.