Subject: Public Domain Citation System
Date:    Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:30:38 -0800
From:    Vincent DiCarlo <vdicarlo@earthlink.net>
To:      citation@teo.uscourts.gov

     I am a lawyer admitted in New York and California and am writing 
to you to urge the adoption of a public domain system of citations.   
I find it outrageous that a single company is able to use a court 
mandated but proprietary system of citations to control access to the 
law that governs all of us. The official sources of law must be 
freely available to all. Legal publishers can profit from added value 
treatises, summaries, indices, and so on that they produce through 
their own editorial effort. They should not be permitted to charge us 
for access to what belongs to the public free of charge. If the 
current situation is permitted to continue the public can only take 
it as evidence of corruption or indifference.

-- Vincent DiCarlo

How to be disliked #3: Stay calm when others are not.

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