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Last Entry: June 13, 2008 at 09:27:00

When Technology Really Helps: Iowa Federal Court Flooded but CM/ECF Intact

Posted on June 13, 2008
The Federal Judiciary Reports: The United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa has implemented a staged Continuity of Operations (COOP) response to the flooding in downtown Cedar Rapids and has closed the court site located at 101 First Street S...

US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Mandatory EFiling Starts June 1

Posted on May 28, 2008
Beginning June 1, 2008, attorneys are required to file documents electronically [using CM/ECF] in all cases. Appendices, vouchers, and case-initiating documents (petitions for review, mandamus, permission to appeal) are excepted from electronic filing and are to be filed in paper format...

US Search Fined $250,000 in Penalties/Costs for Selling Sensitive Credit Bureau Data

Posted on May 26, 2008
Pibuzz.com reports that the NY Attorney General determined that US Search illegally accessed the consumer information more than 2,385 times. If they sold each report for 100 bucks that would just cover the fine and penalties. Then there?s the litigation costs? ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO STOPS INTERNET COMPANY FROM ILLEGALLY SELLING PERSONAL CONSUMER INFORMATION

Illinois Supreme Court Plans for a Unified E-filing System Statewide

Posted on May 23, 2008
Bryan over at The Connect Lawyer reports that a press release came out today with a few details of this plan having a 3-5 year implementation time frame. A Step in the Right Direction

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NY Eastern District Court Transcripts Coming Online

Posted on May 14, 2008
The court reports: Effective May 15, 2008, the Eastern District of New York, in accordance with Judicial Conference Policy and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 49.1, will implement the following policy regarding official court transcripts: 1...

CM/ECF Now In Use In 99% of Federal Courts

Posted on May 07, 2008
The federal judiciary reports: CM/ECF systems are now in use in all 94 district courts, 93 bankruptcy courts, the Court of International Trade, the Court of Federal Claims, 9 courts of appeals, and 4 Bankruptcy Appellate Panels. Most of these courts are accepting electronic filings...

PACER Maintenance Notice

Posted on May 07, 2008
Due to system maintenance, PACER Registration and Account Maintenance services and CM/ECF Appellate Filer Registration and Maintenance services will not be available from Saturday, May 10, 8:00 AM CST through Monday May 12, 8:00 AM CST. PACER Maintenance Notice

California's Plans to Consolidate its Superior Court Case Management Statewide

Posted on April 23, 2008
In a press release by the CA Administrative Office of the Courts, an explanation and time frame is given estimating the public will be able to access statewide superior court case information online by the summer of 2010. Thanks to Stephen Cohen of Law Library Management for alerting us to this item...

Beware of Fake Grand Jury Subpoena Emails

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Federal Judiciary reports: Reports have been received of bogus e-mail grand jury subpoenas, purportedly sent by a United States District Court. The e-mails are not a valid communication from a federal court and may contain harmful links. Recipients are warned not to open any links or download any information relating to this e-mail notice...

Wisconsin State Courts Moving Towards Electronic Filing

Posted on April 15, 2008
Wislawjournal.com reports: The state Supreme Court last week adopted in principle, a petition to implement a voluntary e-filing system in Wisconsin, which means attorneys and pro se litigants will soon be able to log on, rather than run out to file case information...

The April 2008 Pacer Quarterly Newsletter is Available

Posted on April 09, 2008
Of interest: Transcripts to be available on CM/ECF someday. 90 days after a transcript is created it can be made available on CM/ECF. Pacer reports that transcripts will start appearing on dockets "during the spring of 2008"...

Centralized U.S. Appellate ECF Filer Registration Now Available

Posted on April 08, 2008
Registration for Appellate ECF is separate from and in addition to registering for PACER. PACER registration grants you access to view docket reports and documents from a court's database, while ECF registration will enable you to file documents electronically...

More U.S. Appellate Courts Now Providing CM/ECF Pacer Access

Posted on April 02, 2008
When fully implemented, CM/ECF (with a Pacer account) provides the public access to court case docket sheets and filings, allows attorneys to file electronically, court clerks to enter docket entries, and enables electronic noticing. Now added to the growing collection of federal appellate courts providing online access using CM/ECF are the 7th, D...

New Jersey Court Record Internet Access Being Debated

Posted on April 01, 2008
The New Jersey Law Journal via Law.com reports: A proposed rule that would make most state court records available via the Internet is drawing broad opposition, with some critics saying it takes transparency too far and others saying it doesn't go far enough...

Oklahoma State District Court Filings Made Inaccessible to Internet Users

Posted on March 12, 2008
NewsOK.com reports: In a case decided on Tuesday, March 11, 2008, the Supreme Court said individual pleadings and other recorded documents filed in state court actions shall not be publicly displayed on the Internet. People wanting to see this information can go to the courthouse and view it...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Now Using CM/ECF

Posted on March 07, 2008
So far they just have the "CM" in place, with the "ECF" still under development. Now to access dockets users must go here. BAP docket access is here. Instructions for receiving electronic notices are here.

State Courts E-Filing Patchwork Frustrates Lawyers

Posted on February 26, 2008
The National Law Journal Reports via Law.com: Cook County, IL is one of many U.S. counties, including San Diego in California and Kings in New York, that hasn't kept pace with 21st century technological advances that have enabled electronic systems to come to some state courts, such as Maricopa County Superior Court in Arizona and the district courts of Harris County in Texas...

Reed Elsevier to Acquire ChoicePoint, Inc. for $4.1 Billion in Cash

Posted on February 21, 2008
Reed Elsevier, the parent company of LexisNexis (which owns Accurint) continues on with their aggressive monopolistic-like acquisition of competing companies. From their press release: Reed Elsevier to acquire ChoicePoint for a total cost of $4...

Free Federal Court Filing Repository

Posted on February 04, 2008
I stumbled upon this interesting site, pacer.resource.org, which is run by public.resource.org, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The premise is that as federal court filings are purchased from PACER by the public, they can then be "recycled" by everyone on the web, by uploading them into a free shared database...

Illinois Supreme Court Now Offering Oral Argument Video and Audio

Posted on January 29, 2008
The court reports: On-Demand video of oral arguments before the Illinois Supreme Court is available in Windows Media format. Audio is available in MP3 format. Audio podcasts are also available. View/listen to oral arguments here.

All U.S. District Courts Now Using CM/ECF, With the Addition of the Western District of Wisconsin

Posted on January 06, 2008
Although not quite ready to accept ECFs yet, finally, the last of 94 federal district courts, the Western District of Wisconsin, has began using CM/ECF. It has been a long road in this process beginning many years ago. Congrats to the federal judiciary! This is a significant milestone in helping to eliminate practical obscurity for retrieving federal district court case information.

Maine State Courts Inch Towards Online Access

Posted on January 03, 2008
Kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com reports: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has assembled an eight-member working group, led by Justice Andrew Mead of Bangor, to come up with a plan for putting court documents online while ensuring that confidential pieces -- such as Social Security numbers and medical records -- remain confidential...

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Posted on December 30, 2007
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LexisNexis Courtlink Sued in Georgia for its File & Serve Fees

Posted on December 28, 2007
Law.com reports on December 13 plaintiffs attorney Steven J. Newton filed a potential class action alleging that File and Serve is illegal. The defendants are LexisNexis Courtlink Inc., Fulton County State Court Chief Clerk Mark N. Harper, State Court Chief Administrator Stephani R...

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The PACER U.S. Party Case Index Now Includes All Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts

Posted on December 11, 2007
So what federal courts are currently not available on the USPCI? U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, FIFTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, ELEVENTH CIRCUIT U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, FEDERAL CIRCUIT

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Now Using CM/ECF

Posted on December 06, 2007
So far they just have the "CM" in place, with the "ECF" still under development. The following is posted on their site: On November 13, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit implemented the Appellate Case Management Electronic Case Filing System (CM/ECF)...

Free Access to New Jersey Superior Court Dockets for Attorneys with E-Filing Accounts

Posted on December 05, 2007
The New Jersey Judiciary reports: Effective immediately, attorneys who are registered users of JEFIS have access to ACMS for information on DC docket-type cases free of charge. ?JEFIS? is the Judiciary Electronic Filing/Imaging System, which is used by attorneys to electronically file documents in Special Civil Part cases involving $15,000 or less (i...

PACER U.S. Party/Case Index Video Tutorial on The Virtual Chase

Posted on December 04, 2007
Sit back and watch the USPCI demo here. TVC reports: We are experimenting with audio and video for research training purposes. Currently, you will find MP3 audio files for select research articles. You may download these to an iPod or burn them to CD.

Useful Federal Court Electronic Filing Tips

Posted on November 30, 2007
The Lawyer's Right Hand outlines some basic but important concepts including picking the correct event, filing proposed orders, dealing with certificates of service, naming attachments, and good docketing practices. read it here

Privacy Rules for Federal Court Filing and Electronic Access Firming Up

Posted on November 27, 2007
The Federal Judiciary Reports: New rules providing privacy protection for case files posted online in the federal district, bankruptcy and appellate courts are scheduled to take effect December 1, 2007. Some of the rules represent a change in Judicial Conference policy...

Travis County, TX District Court Among the Leaders in E-Filing

Posted on November 25, 2007
Statesman.com reports: Rather quietly, the office of district courts in Travis County recently saw its 20,000th court case filed electronically, scanned and stored its millionth page and collected its millionth dollar in electronic filing fees. Quietly, because outside of the world of lawyers and judges and civil actions, few people know that Travis County is among the leaders in the state and the nation in taking paper out of the process of filing a case in court...

Keyloggers Infiltrate Pacer and CM/ECF Users

Posted on November 24, 2007
The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah reports: The threat of keylogging continues and CM/ECF users are not immune. According to a recent internal memo, over 100 PACER and several dozen CM/ECF filer accounts have been compromised by keyloggers this year nationwide...

Sacramento Superior Court E-Filing and Access Begins; Statewide System by 2012

Posted on November 14, 2007
Although a case index and online probate filings have been available for some time, the court has expanded to now include electronic filing and online document retrieval for civil cases. Access to filings can now be found here. Sacbee.com reports: The official start Tuesday of the online revolution at the downtown Sacramento County Courthouse arrived with long lines, pleas for patience and a few "technical difficulties" as administrators booted up one of the largest Internet civil filing venues in Northern California...

Free Access to PACER Now Available at 16 Libraries in 14 States

Posted on November 09, 2007
The Federal Judiciary reports: Free public access to federal court records is available at 16 libraries in 14 states under a joint pilot project of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office. Each of the libraries has agreed to promote the PACER service, provide users with a three-question PACER survey, report PACER activities to the GPO every two months, and provide access only from computers within the library and its branches...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Will Now Accept Emergency E-Mail Filings in Death Penalty Cases

Posted on November 07, 2007
Chron.com reports: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals said Tuesday it will accept emergency e-mail filings in death penalty cases in an effort to avoid a repeat of the nationally controversial execution of Michael Richard. Richard was executed Sept...

Could Electronic Case Filing Have Saved Michael Richard's Life? Part II

Posted on October 30, 2007
Dallasnews.com reports: More than 300 members of the Texas bar joined a petition last week asking Judge Keller's court to adopt modern procedures and allow e-mailed filings in death penalty cases. Of course it should. Electronic filing in life-or-death cases might have avoided Judge Keller's disgraceful decision Sept...

The PACER Quarterly Newsletter is Available

Posted on October 17, 2007
Of interest: As reported previously, the Digital Audio Pilot Project was launched in August and includes Bankruptcy Courts for ALND, ME, NCED and District Courts for NE and PAED. This pilot will last 6-12 months and cost only $.16 per recording...

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Posted on October 10, 2007
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