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Supreme Court Moves Toward Digital With Online Court Filings (thehill.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Supreme Court case documents will soon be made available for the first time online. The court announced Thursday that it will launch an electronic filing system on Nov. 13 that will make "virtually all new filings" accessible to the public via the court's website for free. Court documents for the lower courts are typically available online through the Public Access to Court Electronics Records, which charges a fee per page. The court's announcement comes just days after the high court unveiled a newly designed website. Court watchers say it's a surprising, but welcome, jump into the 21st century for a court that's been reluctant over the years to advance its technologies.
The framers would never have approved of submitting digital filings.
"Digital transformation" still means "website". Which depends on browsers and standards that are both highly unstable and getting less stable still. This is fine future-proofing, yes yes.
Wonder what the "Court Data Plan" will cost?
It will make it that much easier for them to 'revise' their rulings after the fact and ensure that anyone doubting what their ruling actually was can check for what the new 'company line' is in regards to a supreme court case.
Remember newspeak? This is how it will be implemented.
I wonder who inside SCOTUS decides to launch such a project.
You won't read about it on Slashdot- but the four mercenaries who slaughtered a street full of innocent children women and men for the fun of it in Iraq have just been (effectively) pardoned by a US court. It's My Lai all over again- and of course the main architect and protector of the US soldiers responsible for that atrocity was Colin Powell, the insanely evil neo-liberal who presented the litany of lies against Iraq at the UN to justify the invasion in the first place.
It is not widely known, but Tony Blair ensured the UN granted full immunity to all military contractors working in Iraq- they could rape, torture and murder and the Iraq authorites could not arrest or prosecute them. The nations responsible for a given mercenary could, if they so chose, subject the mercenary to 'justice' in their own courts- but this was utterly discrencenary.
The Blackwater atrocity was so evil, Iraq forced the USA to try the butchers responsible, and initially they were given the lightest possible sentences considering their crimes. But Hillary Clinton personally promised the families of the butchers that she would get their convictions thrown out. The process has taken a little time- hence it falls under the reign of Trump- but it began under Obama.
The owners of Slashdot will be rejoicing in the news today that their butchers are now free- and that the JOKE idea of a new trial will never actually happen- just as was the case with the soldiers responsible for the My Lai holocaust (despite initial 'convictions' none served any significant time at all- and all were effectively pardoned as soon as the story was out of the press.)
Ancient Rome never convicted its men over war crimes. The mongols rewarded pure evil by their soldiers. America is the most sickening and depraved Empire in Human History. Like the Romans, it claims to be superior to all other Human societies, and above the common Laws of Man. And like the Romans, claims the right to inflict its military atrocities where so ever it wishes on the planet.
Clinton will be receiving congratulations from the other leaders across the West for getting HER men out of trouble- after all the first rule of any racist and mass murdering tribe is never to allow one of your own to be punished for any deed. Just ask Israel.
One day America will be held to account. Sadly that day will involve war with Russia, when Americans discover the price for trying to inflict their demonic butchery on a power fully capable of standing up for itself.
is being followed-up on. I know the government agency I work for has been under a lot of pressure to improve IT the past couple of months. Finally glad to see these things happen.
Commandur Tayco, fix your softwear!
Still no video allowed in the Supreme Court with their secret rulings? Well, a website makes it all seem better.
The Supreme Court's decisions have been available online for at least 5 years, probably more. Granted, they don't have an app for access: you use a browser, and they're in PDF format so they resemble the final printed copy. But they're there. As is the court's agenda. As are records of oral arguments. So claiming that the Supremes are tech-averse is being kind of blind.
Many of the federal appeals courts also publish decisions (in PDF) on their web site rather than (or in addtion to) through PACER. As do a few District courts and some state courts.
The new twist is making the other case records available online. That's probably important for the lawyers and the true geeks, but less so for those who just want to know the final outcome. Frankly, I don't mind if those are behind the PACER paywall - it's all a business expense for the lawyers anyway.
And remember, the actual permanent record *is* still on paper, and is bound into volumes for use in law libraries. THAT will never change. What's online (and has been for, really, 10 years or more) is good enough for the rest of us.
It will make it that much easier for them to 'revise' their rulings after the fact and ensure that anyone doubting what their ruling actually was can check for what the new 'company line' is in regards to a supreme court case.
Remember newspeak? This is how it will be implemented.
Please learn what you're talking about before you speak. Your unjustified paranoia hurts everyone else and does no favors for you. Seriously, there are plenty of legitimate things to be paranoid about. This is not one of them.
The US Supreme Court should broadcast and stream all its hearings live.