Firefox Plug-In Frees Court Records, Threatens Judiciary Profits
Access to the nation’s federal law proceedings just got a public interest hack, thanks to programmers from Princeton, Harvard and the Internet Archive, who released a Firefox plug-in designed to make...
View ArticleFBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records
When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an...
View ArticleDOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents
The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to its electronic court filing system, which is composed entirely of documents in the public domain....
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