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The February 2003 issue of Spectrum (PDF), from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), published an article, beginning on page 7, “Supreme Court Hears Case on Copyright, Mickey Mouse and Congress.” Please see my previous post here for background on Eldred et al. v. Ashcroft, Attorney General. See also Larry Lessig’s February 20 article …
This law.com article reviews the two major applications under consideration as standards for electronically archiving court documents: “Portable Document Format (PDF) designed especially for long-term archiving, called PDF-Archive or PDF-A. The second format is Extensible Markup Language (XML).”
The advocacy group Public Integrity issued a press release on February 7 detailing their research on a previously secret 120 page draft of what is being called the “Patriot Act II” legislation, which apparently has not been shared with the House Judiciary Committee. This draft was written by the staff of Attorney General John Ashcroft. …
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit posted the following statement: “As of February 4, 2003, opinions are available as PDF documents to better represent the formatting of the printed slip opinion.” Thanks to Donna Cavallini for the link.
Appellate courts around the country are attempting to craft procedures that apply to the use of technology by cybercrime offenders once they leave incarceration. Disparate determinations are being made in regard to such offenders, allowing some to return to regular use of the Internet and e-mail, while others, such as notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick, was …
Beginning in 2003, the Federal District Court in New Jersey will switch from using snail-mail in favor of faxing documents to “consenting parties” as they transition to the implementation of an e-filing system, according to this law.com article.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued Standing Order 02-01, Electronic Access to Public Records and Sensitive Information, on October 17, 2002. The document stipulates that effective January 1, 2003, the court “intends to make electronic access to court files available through PACER by imaging documents into the court’s computer system.”
In the December 18, 2002 Federal Register there are proposed changes to sentencing guidelines for United States Courts in response to the Patriot Act and other post 9/11 laws concerning terrorism and national security.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a lower court decision in Young v. New Haven Advocate, a case which merits note as it addresses the issues of jurisdiction and Internet libel, the focus of a recent high profile decision in Australia. Stateside, the court determined that two Connecticut newspapers and their …
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, issued a press release on December 2 stating its plan to implement a new e-filing and case management system in February 2003.
The Supreme Court today agreed to review a challenge to the constitutionality of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) (United States v. American Library Association, 02-361), which stipulates that libraries receiving federal funds install filtering software on public access PCs. This law is vigorously opposed by the American Library Association (ALA) and the ACLU. For …
The U.S. District Court for D.C. announced some changes to procedures for administering the court’s subscriber e-mail update service, after their premature release of links to the Microsoft decision. See my previous posting for details. There is also a question as to whether the release of the decision helped to spur a virtually simultaneous rally …
