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Corrections Policy

We aim for factual accuracy across every page on Federal & State Law. When we get something wrong, we want to know — quickly, and with enough detail to fix it. This page describes how to report a correction, how we triage it, and how the correction is documented.

How to report an error

The fastest way to report a correction is by email:

corrections@federalstatelaw.com

Please include in the email:

  • The URL of the page with the error
  • The specific claim or sentence you believe is incorrect
  • The correct information, ideally with a citation to the canonical source
  • (Optional) Your name or affiliation if you would like attribution in the correction note

Our response SLA

  • Acknowledgement: within 2 business days
  • Triage decision: within 5 business days (correct / decline / request more info)
  • Substantive corrections to YMYL content (statutes, regulations, case summaries, calculators, forms): published within 10 business days
  • Editorial / stylistic corrections: rolled into the next review cycle for the content type (see Update methodology)

What we will and will not correct

We will correct:

  • Factual errors (wrong statute number, wrong court, wrong date, wrong threshold)
  • Outdated law that has been superseded by a later Public Law, regulation, or decision
  • Broken or moved canonical-source links
  • Misattributions of source, license, or authorship
  • Typographical errors that change the meaning of the text

We do not correct based on:

  • Personal disagreement with how a court interpreted a statute (we describe the decision; we do not adjudicate its rightness)
  • Requests to remove accurate information about a publicly available statute, regulation, or court decision
  • Requests to add legal-advice framing — our content is general information, not advice
  • Requests to remove accurate citations of upstream sources we are entitled to cite

How corrections are documented

When we publish a substantive correction to a page, we:

  1. Update the page's "last reviewed" date
  2. Add a short correction note at the bottom of the page describing what was changed and when, where the correction is material to a reader who may have read the earlier version
  3. For high-impact corrections to statutes, regulations, or case summaries, we additionally note the correction in our running editorial change log

Minor typographical fixes and routine review-cycle updates are not individually logged.

Reporting safety, security, or privacy issues

For security or privacy issues (rather than factual errors), please email security@federalstatelaw.com.

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