Oyez.org is US Supreme Court cases archive and summaries.
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OYEZ
Description
The OYEZ Project began in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field in the late 1980s as the Chicago Cubs continued to break the hearts of its many diehard fans. It was during one such game that the idea of creating a multimedia-based Supreme Court experience took root. The first iteration was a series of complex HyperCard stacks built on a baseball-card metaphor. The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court" demonstrated the power of multimedia integration with serious academic content. Dozens of students worked on various versions before the development of a web-based version.
The development of a web-based version of the project stems from the foresight of Richard Barone of Northwestern's Learning Technologies Group. With a hardware support grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a major "Teaching with Technology" from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project morphed into "Oyez, Oyez, Oyez." It added hundreds of hours of oral arguments in key constitutional cases and developed the QTVR tour of the Supreme Court building.
Additional support from the National Science Foundation, under its Digital Libraries 2 Initiative, enabled enhancement of the audio collection effort. Additional and substantial support has come from Northwestern University Libraries, Northwestern's Weinberg College of Art and Sciences, the M. R. Bauer Foundation, FindLaw, and the law firm of Mayer, Brown Rowe & Maw.
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English
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- Alexa: Oyez.org
