The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the well-known civil liberties non-profit organization, maintains the Legislative Update as part of the ACLU website. The organization offers updates and materials on many federal legislative issues. Twenty-one issues are covered from criminal justice to workplace rights. Many of the issues are divided into specific sub-issues. For example, Drug Policy includes Decriminalization and Sentencing as sub-issues. The issues and sub-issues are hyperlinked to content. Clicking a sub-issue name provides access to relevant ACLU press releases organized by date. For each sub-issue there is a Legislative Documents link that accesses a list of legislative items, including letters to legislators advocating an ACLU position, summaries of legislation, and descriptions of government activity in an area. Issue names are hyperlinked to a complete list of legislative documents. There is significant cross-linking to press releases, related legislative documents, and legal documents, which include briefs filed by the ACLU. At the top of the Legislative Update page is a Hot Topics box containing links to material addressing the PATRIOT Act, the Flag Burning Amendment, the Victim’s Rights Amendment, and Government-Funded Religion.

How Appealing is a legal web log (“blog”) devoted to appellate litigation. The site’s blogger is Howard Bashman, chair of the Appellate Group of Buchanan Ingersoll in Philadelphia. Bashman has won many significant appellate victories at both the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Bashman provides comprehensive coverage of state and federal appellate activity. For each day of the week the blog highlights news stories, editorials, and other online content related to appellate litigation and related legal topics. Content is briefly described and linked from the blog page. News and opinion sources from the Boston Globe to the Weekly Standard are represented. Entries in the blog are organized topically or by major newspaper. Archives dating to May 2002 are organized by month and linked from the right-hand side. Other links include essays and columns authored by Bashman and a feature called "20 Questions for the Appellate Judge." In the 20 Questions feature, various state and federal judges answer questions about their backgrounds and careers. Also, Bashman links to numerous other blogs representing a variety of perspectives and to the websites of newspapers and other information sources.

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) was founded in 1974. It is an alliance of various national non-profit groups including the American Library Association and the Student Press Law Center. NCAC’s purpose includes promoting First Amendment values, opposing restraints on open communication, and supporting access to information. The site is a source of information on the Coalition, its publications, projects, and other materials with links to the components on the left side. Censorship News, the NCAC newsletter, is archived at the site and the current issue is featured prominently on the main page. A section devoted to special projects highlights NCAC’s work in arts advocacy, free expression, and sex and censorship. The NCAC on the Issues section organizes online material topically ranging from academic freedom to violence in the media. Under each issue are links to briefing papers, articles, and legal briefs. The Coalition also maintains an extensive list of links to organization websites of interest to users researching free expression issues. The main page, while busy, provides highlights of and shortcuts to various items on the site.

The TEACH Toolkit is an online resource for gaining understanding of the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act (TEACH Act). The toolkit is a joint project of the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, the NCSU Office of Legal Affairs, and DELTA, the NCSU distance learning organization. TEACH became law in November 2002. The Act "updates copyright law in the area of digital distance education and, if numerous requirements are met, facilitates the use of copyrighted materials in digital distance education efforts without having to obtain prior permission from the copyright owner." The site has five components: Education, Implementation, Best Practices, Beyond TEACH, and More Help. Within each component are links to very useful content. Under Education, the text of the Act is available along with explanation of what the Act requires and a glossary of terms. Helpful checklists are provided in PDF to assist institutional users in determining TEACH compliance. Also, sample copyright notices and policies are made available. Other topics include "When to Digitize" and "TEACH and Fair Use." More Help offers tutorials on plagiarism and licensing and a resources page that includes a TEACH Act comparison chart.