Access to federal court opinions, free on the web from the federal government, is on its way. Through FDsys, the Federal Digital System, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC) have put up the first opinions as a test. Initial testing is with three courts:
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit;
United States District Court District of Rhode Island; and
United States Bankruptcy Court Southern District of Florida.
The secure transfer of files to GPO from the AOUSC’s Case Management/Electronic Case Filing system (CM/ECF, which feeds PACER) maintains the chain of custody, This allows GPO to authenticate the files with digital signatures.
Read more about it at http://www.fdlp.gov/component/content/article/341-featuredarticles/1078-oyez-oyez-federal-court-opinions-in-fdsys
Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
