The Supreme Court Web Site is UP!

The Supreme Court Web site is now up at http://www.supremecourtus.gov . I know there's been a lot of interest in this one so let me take a quick look at it and give you some thoughts.

Docket Information has its own space
( http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/docket.html ) but is not yet available online; visitors are referred to the Court's BBS.

Court Schedule and Supreme Court Calendar are available as downloadable PDF documents -- http://www.supremecourtus.gov/calendar/calendar.html ..

(The sitewide search engine does appear to index the PDF files on this site, which is nice because so much of this site is PDF.)

Court Rules are available as PDF documents.
( http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ctrules/ctrules.html ) There's a revised rules PDF and a complete rules PDF.

The Opinions Section is pretty interesting.
( http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html ) There is a PDF file on where to obtain opinions, and a pointer to bench opinions issued during October Terms 1992 through 1999. The 1999 Term Opinions of the Court are available on the site itself as PDF documents (that page is at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/99oplist.html ) It starts with Brancato v. Gunn on 10-12-99 and at this writing concludes with Free v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. on 4-3-2000. There are also a listing of 1999 Term Opinions relating to orders at http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/99orderslist.html ..

I am skipping a lot here, including the site's short link list, information about visiting the court, and the public information (including a reporter's guide to applications) but I wanted to just do a quick writeup and give you some idea of what's there. It's certainly worth a look, though you will need to have the Adobe Acrobat reader.

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