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- U.S. SUPREME COURT ONLINE DISSEMINATION OF OPINIONS
-
- Available on the Cleveland FREE-NET <FRE001>
- Type go hermes at the Your choice prompt
-
- On May 11th, 1990 the United States Supreme Court announced that it was
- beginning a two-year experimental program called "Project Hermes." The
- objective of this project is to rapidly provide copies of the Court's
- opinions in electronic form to as wide an audience as possible.
-
- Twenty organizations applied to be a part of this project, 12 were
- accepted; and one of the successful applicants was a noncommercial,
- nonprofit, consortium composed of Case Western Reserve University
- (CWRU), EDUCOM, and the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN).
- What this means for YOU is that you will now be able to receive
- electronically the full text of the Court's opinions within minutes of
- their release--FREE.
-
- It will work like this...
-
- When the Court decides to release an opinion or set of opinions, a
- computer at the Supreme Court Building will open-up 12 telephone lines
- and simultaneously send copies to its primary distributors. In our
- case, it will be received by a CWRU computer here in Cleveland where a
- special program will clear out the various printer codes from the
- document. Two things will then occur. First, a copy of each of the
- "clean" documents will be sent electronically to the EDUCOM offices in
- Washington D.C. EDUCOM will then place the files on both the Internet
- and BITNET networks for distribution to the academic and research
- community. Second, and at the same time, copies will be distributed
- across all NPTN affiliated community computer systems.
-
- You may have the Court's opinions sent directly to you if you have
- access to either a BITNET or Internet computer (many, if not most, major
- universities are connected to one service or the other); or you may
- download the files directly from any NPTN community computer system.
- There is no charge to receive this service beyond whatever fees your
- university computing center might have, or the cost of a telephone call
- to an NPTN affiliate.
-
- This NPTN service is brought to you in part by a grant from the law firm
- of PORTER, WRIGHT, MORRIS & ARTHUR, with offices in Cleveland, OH;
- Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Naples, FL; and Washington
- D.C.
-
- To receive more information on how to sign-up for the BITNET/Internet
- service, or if you would like to know more about accessing these files
- on an NPTN community computer, please send your name, organization or
- firm, address, city, state, and zip, to: PROJECT HERMES, CWRU COMMUNITY
- TELECOMPUTING LAB, 319 WICKENDEN BUILDING, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44106.
-
- For general information about Project Hermes or about the National
- Public Telecomputing Network, please contact: Tom Grundner at the above
- address or at (216) 368-2733.
-
- You can also contact Project Hermes electronically via:
- Internet: aa584@cleveland.freenet.edu
- BITNET: aa584%cleveland.freenet.edu@cunyvm
-