Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs -- but the effort is raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files.
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration says at least 10 million bankruptcy case files and several million district court files from between 1970 and 1995 will be shredded, pounded to pulp and recycled. Only a small percentage of files designated as historically valuable will be kept in storage.