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Supreme Court Will Bypass PACER, Put Its Filings Online For Free

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts announced in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary that The Supreme Court is developing an “electronic filing system” similar to PACER, which, once made public in 2016, will make all filings at the Court available to the legal community and the public on the Court’s […]

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Supreme Court reenactments with dogs: so wrong but so right!

John Oliver is doing great — and hilarious — journalistic work. In this segment, he not only takes on the serious issue of why the Supreme Court doesn’t allow video cameras during oral arguments (Scalia’s argument against cameras is just lame excuse given the way C-SPAN currently covers Congress), but gives other news outlets the […]

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Roundup of Recent Government Info News and New Resources

Time once again for a selection of news and new resources that we hope will be an interest to the FGI community. The following posts are from INFOdocket.com (@infofodocket) where we compile and post new items daily. 1. New iOS App From SEC: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission News 2. Just Released: Library of Congress Offers Congressional Record As iPad App 3. National Library of Medicine Announces Latest Release of Its “History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium” 4. Asked and Answered Questions: U.S. Department of Education Releases Mobile Version of Answers.Ed.gov 5. Smithsonian Gets Dedicated Funds for Digitization and New Media, Will Spend $8.7 Million In FY 2012 6. The Library of Congress Names Gayle Osterberg Director of Communications 7. EPA Releases Comprehensive Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Online Database and Dataset Available 8. White Paper: “Authentication of Primary Legal Materials and Pricing Options” 9. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Launches Mobile Web Site 10. Full Text Reference Resource: Trade & Development: UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2011 From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. 11. NARA Launches “Citizen Archivist Dashboard” 12. U.S. Bankruptcy Courts Begin Offering Online Chat Services 13. USDA Launches New Online Nutrition SuperTracker 14. New Database: Time-Series Plots of Phrases in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (Legal Language Explorer) 15. Statistics: NLM Updates MEDLINE Indicators With FY2011 Numbers Continue reading

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Information about US Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan

Gary has been very busy assembling an excellent set of links on the new Supreme Court nominee over at Resource Shelf:

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Supreme Court Updates Its Website

The Supreme Court has updated its much-maligned, old-fashioned website (See the old website at the Wayback Machine). It has also changed its URL from supremecourtus.gov to supremecourt.gov

  • supremecourt.gov.
  • Changes for Court’s website, Lyle Denniston SCOTUS Blog (March 18th, 2010). The Supreme Court has now assumed management of its own website, retrieving it from the Government Printing Office.
  • press release, Supreme Court, Office of Public Information (March 18th, 2010).
The Sunlight Foundation, which had suggested changes to the site last year, has some useful comments and suggestions for further change and links to more information: Continue reading

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