Subject: Court Cases belong to the Public Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:22:23 -0500 From: Anant Sahai To: citation@teo.uscourts.gov CC: sahai@mit.edc As an American Citizen who uses the internet, I find it hard to believe that the US Government permits Court Cases to be copyrighted documents that we must pay to access. There is a substantial public interest in all ordinary citizens having access to these cases -- which serve to define the very laws applying to them. They also need to be able to freely quote and distribute this information to others. Today, with the Internet's low costs of distribution, it is not an unreasonable burden to put up web sites containing all these documents. The public interest must be served. -Anant Sahai