In many state court systems, one particular class of public documents -- non-precedential appellate court rulings -- remain unavailable over the Internet, on Lexis or on Westlaw, and are all but inaccessible to the general public. The time has come, writes appellate litigator Howard J. Bashman, for these courts to abolish their practice of hiding from public view the vast bulk of their rulings.
January 08, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Related: Bashman Archive
Our government, to the greatest extent practicable, should conduct its business in the open. That principle is central to the proper operation of a democracy. Yet in many state court systems, one particular class of public documents — non-precedential appellate court rulings — remain all but inaccessible to the general public, locked away in court filing cabinets but unavailable over the Internet, on Lexis or on Westlaw.
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