Works of government employees in carrying out their work are not protected by copyright law. This would include statutes and court opinions.
There is copyright protection in how a private business compiles the statutes or court opinions. West Law puts Keynotes on their printing of statutes and court opinions to provide a form of executive summary. That content is theirs. I mention this only as a word of caution, if you are going to copy the state statues from a given location, check for copyright notices to make sure you are not copying a compilation of a private company.
Good luck,
Todd
Answered on Jan 27th, 2014 at 3:50 PM