Author: editor@iquest.net (Elsa F. Kramer) at -Internet
Date: 3/13/0- 03:50 PM
Priority: Normal
BCC: citation at AO-OCPPO
TO: citation@ao.uscourts.gov. at -Internet
Subject: public domain legal citations

     I am a self-employed writer and editor who frequently researches 
legal issues. I have never been able to understand how one 
company could claim as intellectual property the opinions of taxpayer-
supported courts. West may of course lay claim to its cumbersome 
system of citation, and to its monopoly on the information it keeps 
from journalists and others interested in the law but "unqualified" 
to have access to the information.

     Please, let the public have EASY access to public documents. 
Please implement the ABA's recommendation for a new citation system.

Elsa F. Kramer
editor@iquest.net
Indianapolis