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  • Maine’s highest court rules in favor of public access to state’s online court records

    February 26, 2019 - Maine’s new electronic court filing system will be available to the public for a fee, the state’s top judge said.   The Supreme Judicial Court was about to hold a public hearing Thursday morning on the $15 million system when Chief Justice Leigh Saufley said the court had already decided the matter. The system will allow prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges to file documents online and the public will have access via the internet. Details, including fees for accessing documents, are still to be determined.   Saufley said some documents that are currently off-limits to the public, such as divorces involving children and many juvenile matters, will remain off-limits. Saufley said the new system will...

  • Harvard Law Just Released 6.5 Million Court Decisions Online

    February 26, 2019 - IIn a significant milestone for public access to the law, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School on Monday published more than 40 million...

  • Beware This Flawed Report

    February 23, 2019 - Yes, the companies represented in this artcle are very fine companies. The story is flawed by the presumption that these are the companies in t...

  • Australia - Excluding candidates because of a criminal record may be unlawful

    February 23, 2019 - By Charles Power on January 18th, 2019 Discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s criminal record maybe unlawful unless it is based on...

  • Impact on Employment and Recidivism

    February 23, 2019 - Impact on Employment and Recidivism Reducing the Number of Available Jobs   Criminal convictions have after-effects that extend fa...

  • Uber and Lyft Can't Get Criminal Records Right

    February 23, 2019 - There's a plethora of articles that show Uber and Lyft cannot get criminal records right. Unfortunately,it ia sign of the deficiencies of t...

  • How bloody was medieval life?

    February 22, 2019 - In the 1300s in northern France, a nasty character named Jacquemon bribed a jailer to let his unwanted son-in-law die a painful death in prison....

  • How Rape Cases Went Wrong

    February 22, 2019 - Law enforcement agencies surveyed by CNN reported destroying rape kits after they stopped investigating cases. Reporters determined that hundre...

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