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From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
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Subject: Re: U. S. Supreme Court Opinions On-Line - Can We Gateway?
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Date: 16 Aug 88 15:01:37 GMT
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In article <794@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
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>Sounds like a good idea for the net software, but I'd think this would
>definitely lend itself to another distribution (law. perhaps?) as I
>should think most of the net wouldn't want to carry the LARGE volume
>of traffic this would generate.  That and being of little interest
>to the majority of the net.
>
>-- 
>Michael Sullivan				{uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan
>V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA			sullivan@vsi.com
>"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries!  Pbbbt!"

Another possibility would be archiving.  I don't know of anyone here that
that would get real benefit from the decisions as they come out, although
that could change and it might be a bit different for some sites.  It would
seem though that having the actual stuff put up and available somewhere 
so that references could be made MIGHT have some impact on a few of the more
legalistic flames.  At least, if someone claimed a Supreme Court decision in
support (or opposition, I suppose - stranger things have happened! :-) of
a particular side of an argument, there would be a way to get the definitive
quote!

Just a thought.  Probably take a prohibitively large amount of disk, lawyers
are about the only group that can talk more than me and yet say less...
[Feel free to use the last sentence.  Heh]

Dewey Henize
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