Self Representation
Articles across the publication that deal with self representation.
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Courts & Civil Litigation
Court Costs, Filing Fees, and Fee Waivers for Low-Income Litigants
Filing fees are not the only cost of a lawsuit, and they are not always payable up front. Here is how waivers work in federal and state courts, and what they do not cover.
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Courts & Civil Litigation
Representing Yourself in Court: Filing Rules and Where Pro Se Parties Get Stuck
Self-represented parties are held to the same procedural rules as lawyers. Knowing which rules actually decide cases is more useful than knowing the law of your claim.
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Courts & Civil Litigation
Small Claims Court: Dollar Limits, Filing, Hearings, and Collecting
Small claims court trades procedure for speed. Limits, rules on lawyers, and appeal rights are set entirely by each state, and winning is only half the job.
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Technology, Privacy & Media
Web Scraping and Automated Data Collection: Access, Contract, and Copyright
Whether an automated collector is lawful is really four separate questions. Federal access law has narrowed, which pushed the fight toward contract, server burden, and copyright.
8 min readAnalysis
