[8881] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: JURIS - DOJ rejects TAP FOIA Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Haynes)
Thu Dec 9 11:17:36 1993
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 10:06:55 -0600
From: shaynes@research.westlaw.com (Steve Haynes)
To: com-priv@psi.com, mark@drd.com
On Wed, 8 Dec 93 16:36:04 CST Mark Lawrence wrote (responding to
a posting by Tim Sprehe):
> why are you characterizing making this information available
> in crude form (basic text, no search capabilities, organized
> in directory hierarchies at a maximum) at marginal cost
> (data gotta sit on the disks in some form anyway; putting it
> up for gopher or anonymous ftp is only a small step further)
> as "heavily subsidized CALR"?
But much caselaw _is_ available in this form. Most of the
federal appellate courts and many state courts make their
decisions available electronically on bulletin boards.
Steve Haynes
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