More than 100 law students along with small-firm practitioners and legal educators are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate copyright protection for state annotated codes of law and other state  legal materials.

The case Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org is unusual in that both sides, and all of the friends of the court. want the justices to take the case — but for different reasons. The justices were scheduled to take their first look at the case in their private conference Thursday.