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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: U. S. Supreme Court Opinions On-Line - Can We Gateway?
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Date: 15 Aug 88 21:56:54 GMT
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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.
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> 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