Author: "Philip L. Dubois" <dubois@dubois.com> at -Internet
    Date: 3/13/ 0  11:37 AM
Priority: Normal
     BCC: citation at AO-OCPPO
      TO: citation@ao.uscourts.gov at -Internet
 Subject: ABA Citation Resolution

     I write to comment on the ABA Citation Resolution.  While this 
proposal is not perfect, it's way better than what we have now.  
There is absolutely no reason for the courts to cling to a tradition 
that serves nobody except West Publishing Company, particularly in 
this new age of electronic publishing and the Internet.  For various 
reasons, the courts (like the rest of the government) gets farther 
from the people with each passing year.  Here is an opportunity to 
reverse that trend, if only in a small way: the availability and 
usability of court rulings to and by the public.

     Court opinions are public records, after all.

                                   Philip L. Dubois