The February, 2010 edition of the US Federal Courts Newsletter, The Third Branch has two articles of interest. The first article, FJC Report Focuses on Sealed Cases in Federal Courts reports that only .5 percent of cases were completely sealed. This is of interested for electronic document automation because of the amount and type of technology that may need to be used.
The second article, Electronic Filing by Probation and Pretrial Services Speeds Up Court Process, Reduces Paper identifies many advantages to the use of E-Filing. Specific benefits cited were the elimination of lost paperwork, easy certification of the record, and as part of their continuity of operations planning since the records would be available from anywhere they could set up a computer system with comunications.
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