Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: U. S. Supreme Court Opinions On-Line - Can We Gateway? Message-ID: <360@optilink.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 21:56:54 GMT References: <25634@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 31 In article <25634@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes: > Currently, the only way members of the public may obtain > an opinion on the day of its release is to go to the court and pick > one up. Wire services report on the opinions the moment they are > issued, but the complete text of the decisions are only made > available by various legal publishers about a week after their > release. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > I'd love to see the Supreme court opinions here on USENET. Perhaps > this is something that UUNET (or any other capable site) should > submit a proposal to do? > > comments? > > Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu I would also. I'm always impressed how many different interpretations I read about what a Supreme Court ruling means -- and I'm sick and tired of not being able to see what the ruling itself says. Remember the Georgia sodomy law? I read at least three significantly different accounts of what they decided, and why. I would love to be able to make up my mind for myself. Are there any law schools on the net? If so, these would be the logical organizations to arrange a feed from "ussprm", or whatever the Robed Ones node would be called. Clayton E. Cramer