Actually, Mercury was and always was an experiment in delivering briefs
using image files. Many of the participants in the experiment, including
HyperLaw, were of the view that the Court should allocate its technology
resources towards developing a method of have parties file duplicate
versions of briefs in text, i.e., SGML format, and then redistribute the
text SGML files over Hermes.
We expressed the view that the court should ask those filing briefs on the
merits to file an electronic copy on a voluntary basis, and, that the
court could disseminate experimentally the electronic versions as filed,
whether in Word Perfect, ASCII or another format, and then gain experience
toward developing a standard format, which, in our opinion, should be the
SGML type format used by the SEC's EDGAR project.
Alan Sugarman
HyperLaw, Inc.
212-873-1371
Federal Appeals on Disc tm CD-ROM
On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, joe acton wrote:
> The U. S. Supreme Court has discontinued its electronic dissemination of
> briefs, called Project Mercury; it has not discontinued Project Hermes,
> which is its electronic dissemination of opinions. Timeline Publishing and
> our online service, Lawyers' Legal Research Online, has received numerous
> calls from those who mistakenly believe we will no longer be carrying U.S.
> Supreme Court opinions. This is not the case (no pun intended!). We
> continue to receive and run in our online service the opinions of the U.S.
> Supreme Court, all Federal Circuit Courts, and appellate slip opinions from
> 25 states. The ONLY category of information we've discontinued is the
> briefs which were transmitted to us via Project Mercury. Please feel free
> to call me directly or via E-mail if this doesn't clear up the confusion.
>
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