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A New Reporter Confronts The Supreme Court’S Unpublished Decisions, Peter W. Martin
A New Reporter Confronts The Supreme Court’S Unpublished Decisions, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
For over two hundred years, the United States Supreme Court has been served by an officially designated “Reporter” charged with overseeing the publication of its decisions. While the statutory framework within which the Court’s Reporter of Decisions must operate has been revised from time to time, it has always reflected the need for that publication to be timely. It has also been focused solely on the production of printed volumes, a growing anachronism in an era of linked and searchable law data. Because of the disconnect, delays in official publication of the Court’s decisions grew over the course of this …