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Thanks to some articles on Medium.com we learned that the Virginia courts have opened court records to online access and bulk download last week. This follows years of litigation from news media organizations that resulted in a Virginia Supreme Court ruling in 2017 denying access. However, in the interim political pressure resulted in first the Virginia Supreme Court announced on January 23, 2018, that they would “promulgate a court rule concerning public access to judiciary records on or before December 1, 2018, and later legislation requiring that “bulk data” be made available.