Here's something interesting: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=new+york+code&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Look at the fourth and seventh entry. Neither has the URL listed, rather, they have the supposed path structure. That's a neat trick. Makes having vanity URLs worthless now...
Dude, I find nothing strange. Its simply clean and authoritative! Also I don't think Google's is going to place something wrong specially when the search terms are related to a Nation's property. Do you?
A lot of the big sites like Findlaw (in your example), are indexed differently than the average site. For example, even Google's own site doesn't have a clean structure like the ones in your sample. I'm not sure how these would really help you though, as when you click on the site from google, the real URL is revealed.
ive never noticed something like that. but it shows from real authorithy, i would love a link from one of those sites.
Yes... exactly. I didn't say there was anything wrong, it was all right. But I can't determine why some sites are getting it and not others. Authority isn't necessarily the answer.