PROJECT HERMES
        Electronic Dissemination of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Project Hermes was started in May 1990 by the U.S.  Supreme Court as an
experiment in disseminating its opinions electronically.  Case Western
Reserve University was one of the participants in the pilot project.  In
the Fall of 1992, the Court decided that the experiment in electronic
dissemination of it's opinions was successful.  Starting with the 1993
calendar year, the U.S.  Supreme Court began disseminating opinions
electronically on an official basis.  CWRU will continue to electronically
receive and distribute the opinions of the Court. 

The U.S.  Supreme Court distributes its opinions in both WordPerfect and
ASCII text formats.  CWRU makes both forms of the distribution available
via FTP to users who have access to the Internet on host FTP.CWRU.Edu.  The
ASCII text versions are accessible in bulletin board form via Usenet News
and also online via the Cleveland Free-Net.