CompuServe Messages

John, West, for one, did not have competitors until recently with the advent of online access to courts and their opinions. Now, many states that had given West the monopoly to publish their state opinions, will be embarking on various forms of electronic bulletin boards to publish the judicial decisions. These states even want to change the official citation styles to take away the West publication citation as the "official" citation in briefs to be submitted to the courts. As for the USGS, it has already exceeded what has been done by other agencies of the fed. govt., and it can probably dodge the tax cutting bullet by ceasing print publication of many of its bulletins, professional papers, etc., and making them soley available electronically. Nathan