Sloth-ninja clears out JessicaOSS's US case-law layer
The proposed first step toward a UK-focused research stack was subtraction: remove the US CourtListener service cleanly, while preserving room for future sources.
Sloth-ninja's closed proposal would have removed JessicaOSS's CourtListener integration, a US case-law search service, across the product: research access, citation display, account settings, and the supporting stored data.
The important design choice was not to rip out the whole research framework. The proposal retained the connection point where future UK research sources could be added, while eliminating a feature that no longer fit the migration direction. It also aimed to keep historic conversations usable: older case-law blocks would simply be omitted rather than preventing a chat from opening.
The work did not land, so this is a useful signal of direction rather than a live product change.
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