Author: Todd <tricker@smart.net> at ~Internet 
Date: 3/13/011:51 AM 
Priority: Normal 
BCC: citation at AO-OCPPO 
TO: citation@ao.uscourts.gov at ~Internet 
Subject: court opinions 

     Court opinions belong in the public domain. As a tax payer I 
feel that my hard earned dollars should not go to supporting a 
vicious monopoly such as that of West Publishing. The public owns the 
law, and should have the right to analize it free of charge, or at 
least at a nominal charge. 

     The fact that West has tried to "lobby" the Supreme Court 
justices to keep the system intact makes me sick. West maintains 
that they own the indexing scheme. That indexing scheme relies on 
page numbers. Come on! Indexing by page number is inefficient. 

     I encourage you to adopt a new system in which court opinions 
are distributed cheaply, openly, and in manner that does not cause 
companies in the private sector to profit handsomely at the expense 
of tax payers. By doing this, you would be serving the American 
public and removing a double standard that exists in the US Justice 
system. 

     Thank you and good luck.