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Monday, March 06, 2006
Courts - More on: Thousands of federal cases kept secret
Following up on this ILB entry yesterday is this lengthy story today in Legal Times headed: "D.C.'s Secret Docket: There were 460 criminal cases filed last year. To the public, 111 of them don't exist."
The story reports that a study conducted by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "to be published this week, reveals that during the past five years 18 percent of nearly 3,000 criminal cases in the D.C. federal court were not docketed. The number of undocketed civil cases during that period was significantly less — 65 out of more than 12,000."
Here is the fascinating report, titled "Disappearing dockets, When public dockets have holes, the public’s right to open judicial proceedings is jeopardized," from The News Media and the Law.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 6, 2006 01:03 PM
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