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