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Court records access battle bursts into view

By Mark Obbie

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John Schwartz tells a fascinating story today about a controversy over the federal courts' PACER records system. This has been going on awhile, but under my radar (I guess my ballooning blog-reading list still isn't large enough). The heart of the story -- about Public.Resource.Org's campaign to bypass PACER by putting trial and appellate records on the free-and-searchable Web -- is of great importance to legal reporters, especially freelancers who don't have a news organization's budget backing them.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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