This is a service designed to provide access to court files, including notification of attorneys of new filings in selected cases. We have posted an article at this site discussing Document imaging as an adjunct to electronic court filing . Cybersleuther is a new company consisting of Gayle and Tom O'Connor, veterans in this area. Making Way for Intelligence in Case Space , by Philip Greenspun of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyn and Marc Lauritsen of Harvard Law School, published as part of the MIT Journal of Computer-Aided Litigation. Online docket access CourtLink is a service which uses its own software interface to permit searching of court records on multiple servers.
Coverage includes most Federal courts and many or all courts in about seven states.
CourtExpress is a new service which lets users search names, track cases, and order documents directly from U.S. Bankruptcy and District Courts nationwide. This service was reviewed at the Law Library Resource Exchange site in August 1999. DM2000 is a combination of a docket management software program and online service which includes docket access to courts in the Chicago area. The Pacer Service Center serves as the federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to federal court records. VeriLaw , based in Eastern Pennsylvania, is involved in several prototype docket and document access projects, including the MDL 1203 project described above.