Editorial & Citation Policy

The promise behind a “Verified” date

A statute card on this site shows “Verified <date>” only when the most recent check of that citation passed. The date is the day our pipeline last retrieved the current text of that provision from its official or authoritative source and confirmed that what our page says about it — dollar amounts, deadlines, thresholds, procedural requirements — is consistent with that text.

Verification is not a link check. A working link to the wrong section, a repealed section, or a section that no longer says what we say earns no date. If the latest check did not pass, the card shows no verification date at all. We would rather show nothing than show a stamp we cannot stand behind.

When we cannot verify something, we say less

This is the rule that governs everything else on the site. A specific figure — a filing deadline, a dollar limit, a number of days — stays on a page only while the official text supports it. When the text cannot be retrieved, is ambiguous, or does not contain the figure, we do not leave the figure standing on our own authority. We soften the sentence to what we can defend (“a filing deadline applies”, “limits are set by statute”) and tell you to confirm the current figure with a lawyer.

The same rule applies to citations. A section number that could not be verified at the last check is removed from the page rather than displayed without a date. So a sentence on this site that carries no citation is a general statement we could not tie to a specific, verified provision at the last check — not a claim we are quietly standing behind. A vaguer true sentence is better than a precise one that might be wrong.

We know this makes some pages less specific than they could be. We accept that trade. Specificity comes back only when verification proves it.

How verification works

Every citation on the site is held in a registry together with the exact claims our pages make about it. An automated pipeline retrieves the current text of each provision from the legislature's or revisor's own website, or from another authoritative publisher where no official page exists, and compares the text against those claims. Each check ends in one of three verdicts:

• Accurate — the text supports the claims. The card shows the verification date.
• Ambiguous or unverifiable — the text could not be retrieved, is partial, or does not clearly cover the claim. No date is shown; the figure is softened or the citation removed as described above.
• Amended — the text contradicts the claim because the law changed or we had it wrong. The page is corrected or the claim is removed, and the correction is independently re-checked against the text before any date returns.

Verdicts, dates, sources and reasoning are kept in a ledger. Both the English and Spanish pages read their verification dates from that ledger; nobody types a date by hand.

How this content is produced

Our state-by-state guides are generated from structured legal data — one record per state and practice area holding the statutes, figures and procedures — rendered through shared page templates. That is how a correction to one fact updates every page and both languages at once.

We use AI systems in this work and want to be plain about where. AI assists in drafting and revising the explanatory text, in reading statutory text during verification, and in deciding, under the written rules on this page, how a page should change when a check fails. The Spanish edition is produced by machine translation of the English templates and data, validated for completeness; where a translation is unavailable, the English text is shown. People set these rules, review samples of the pipeline's decisions and its reasoning, maintain the data, and handle every error report. No page on this site is written or reviewed by an attorney acting as your attorney, and nothing here is legal advice.

Re-verification cadence

Each statute carries a review cadence, shown beside its verification date, based on how often that area of law changes. Independently of those cadences, the entire citation corpus is re-audited every quarter: every source is re-retrieved, moved or renumbered sections are re-located, and every claim is re-compared against the current text. Pages whose latest verdict is not accurate stay unstamped until a later check passes.

What happens when the law changes

When re-verification finds that a statute was amended, renumbered, or repealed, the claim is corrected against the current text, re-pointed to the successor section, or removed. Every such change is made to the underlying data rather than to an individual page, is recorded with the exact before-and-after wording and the source it was grounded on, and is re-verified independently before a verification date reappears. Changes that cannot be grounded in the current text are not made; the page says less instead.

Not everything is a statute

Some legal rules do not come from a statute passed by the legislature. They may be set by an agency regulation, a court rule, the state constitution, or by court decisions (common law). Where that is the case, our citation cards say so: the card is labeled with the kind of authority and links to the official text where one exists. Regulations, court rules and constitutional provisions are verified against their live official text the same way statutes are. For court-made law we describe the rule and its source rather than forcing a statute citation that does not exist.

Reporting an error

Licensed attorneys using our platform can report a suspected error directly from their dashboard. Anyone else can write to support@casereliefnow.com. Every report is checked against the live statutory text and reviewed by a person before the page changes, and a report that turns out to be right is corrected under the same rules as everything else here. We do not argue with the text of the law.

Who is responsible

Case Relief Now is operated by First Intake Media LLC, an Alabama limited liability company. We are not a law firm. The site provides legal information and connects readers with independent, licensed attorneys; how any statute applies to your situation is a question for a licensed attorney in your state. See our About page for how the site and the attorney matching work.

Limits of this policy

Laws change between verification dates. A verification date means the citation was accurate as of that date, not that it is guaranteed accurate today. The English pages are the authoritative version; the Spanish pages are translations of them. Always verify the current text of any statute before relying on it, and consult an attorney about your specific situation.