PACER fees increasing

Ars Technica reports that PACER fees will increase from $.08 per page to $.10 per page. See also: Conference Approves Standards & Procedures for Sealing Civil Cases, USCourts.gov.

Justia Opinion Summaries

Justia says it will provide free opinion summaries by all federal appellate courts or by practice area. The examples show summaries of cases, plus links to a DOF of the opinion. Additional information at http://law.justia.com/subscriptions.

Dewey B Strategic: Bloomberg Law Takes on the Titans: An interview with Lou Andreozzi, Chairman of Bloomberg Law

Dewey B Strategic: Bloomberg Law Takes on the Titans: An interview with Lou Andreozzi, Chairman of Bloomberg Law

Interview with Lou Adreozzi on Bloomberg Law.

LexisNexis Courtlink app

LexisNexis announced a new Courtlink app - see the YouTub video demo here. It is available for iPhone and soon for Android.

New lawsuit over unpaid time

From the Ars Technica web site:

Off the clock? Hyperconnected workers sue employers

Ubiquitous Internet connections and a proliferation of smartphones have put more employees "on call" than ever before, and many aren't being paid for the extra time. Some are pushing back in lawsuits against their employers, but it may simply be time for companies to draw a clearer line on out-of-office communications.

By Jacqui Cheng Last updated August 10, 2009 12:30 PM CT

Interesting article bringing up the basic question of are you working or not when required to answer work calls/emails after work hours?

Thank you, Ars Technica, for including the court and docket number!

Further reading:

If you have PACER access, the case against T-Mobile is 1:09-cv-02955-RJD-RML in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

TexasOnline Partners with nCourt For e-Filings

From Legal Dockets Online...

"Texas Residents Can Now Take Advantage of eFiling for Lower Court Documents Such as Small Claims and Landlord/Tenants Proceedings via the Web..."
http://www.legaldockets.com/files/blogger.html

To read more:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090803005551&newsLang=en

Mandatory E-Filing for Harris County

"Mandatory E-Filing for 151st Civil District Court of Harris County, Texas
Judge Mike Engelhart reports: [The court] posted its “Standing Order” on its website’s Court Procedures page requiring all documents in new lawsuits to be electronically filed. A link to the court’s standing order is posted on the procedures page."

For more info, see Paul Bush's entry on the Legal Dockets Online Blog at:
http://www.legaldockets.com/files/blogger.html

Article about PACER

You can't live with PACER, you can't live without PACER, it seems. The Ars Technica web site has posted an article that asks why PACER is still behind a "paywall" and not allowing free public dissemination of dockets and filings. It's an interesting view of the whole idea of paying for court records. The comments are pretty interesting too, with several bringing up online vendors trying to make searches easier, but at a steeper cost.

The case against PACER: tearing down the courts' paywall
US law says that federal court records are in the public domain. So why do the courts still lock most of their official documents behind a paywall? Ars investigates.
By Timothy B. Lee
Last updated April 8, 2009 11:30 PM CT

Dockets: El Paso County

From Legal Dockets Online Blog--
http://www.legaldockets.com/files/blogger.html

As of Aug. 29th...
El Paso County Texas District Clerk to Provide Court Filings Online

"Court records will soon be available online, El Paso County District Clerk Gilbert Sanchez said today after a ruling from Attorney General Greg Abbott gave counties a cautionary OK to create Internet databases with public documents."It's just a matter of flipping the switch" after county commissioners give permission for the database, Sanchez said. full story more from chron.com"

Case dockets and e-filing are already available here."

Proceedings at the Old Bailey

I found this in the April 2007 issue of Smithsonian. Robert Shoemaker from the University of Sheffield and Tim Hitchcock of the University of Hertfordshire digitized about 52 million words of more than 100,000 trials between 1674 and 1834. These criminal trials took place in the City of London and the County of Middlesex.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

For more information about the project, go to the article "Digitizing the Hanging Court" (Vol. 38, No. 1, pg. 66-75).

E-Filing in the Federal Courts

Split Court, Inc. Launches the First Online Tool For Preparing PDF Documents For E-Filing In Federal Court

"According to their press release "Split Court, Inc.’s online pay-as-you-go application lets lawyers upload the large files and specify the Court-required file size. The program does the rest by splitting the exhibits into the optimal size. Attorneys can then download the separate files or have them e-mailed back to them for filing."

From the Legal Dockets Online Blog