RECAP Used To Show Vacated Rulings That A Judge Wanted Gone
from the is-this-good-or-bad dept
Last week, we wrote about the launch of RECAP, a neat little tool for making sure that more public domain court rulings are actually accessible to the public (what a concept). Apparently, the tool is already useful. Thomas O’Toole points us to the news of someone who used RECAP to point to rulings that were vacated and then (oddly) ordered to be removed from various databases. All of this was a part of a settlement agreement. Rulings get vacated all the time, but having the judge order the various databases that hold rulings to delete them seems a bit extreme. However, thanks to RECAP it seems that the original rulings are still available. Yet another reminder that you can’t make things disappear online.
Filed Under: legal documents, pacer, public domain, recap
Comments on “RECAP Used To Show Vacated Rulings That A Judge Wanted Gone”
Perhaps...
In the dark ages some governments tried to band the printing of certain books when the new technology of mass printing was embraced, some of those books are still in existance today.
vacated...
How wonderful, the ability to take back what you said. Its like when we were all kids. Apparently some of are still kids. Its nice to know RECAP is there with the original ruling.
Quick, publish them on Wikileaks
Put them on Wikileaks before the judge orders RECAP to remove them.
Yay Streisand Effect!