Electronic briefs not on Court’s own website
Under the Supreme Court’s revised Rules, briefs in granted cases, including amicus briefs, are to be filed in electronic as well as in booklet form. A recent memo that the Court sent to attorneys said that “Briefs submitted electronically should be available on the Court’s web site the next business day.” On Tuesday, the Court clarified — in response to an inquiry — that the briefs will not be accessible directly on its own web site, but there will be a link to an American Bar Association site that will provide access to briefs of parties and of amici.
The Court’s own web site now provides such a link; it can be found here. That is the place where the electronic briefs will be reachable when filed under the revised Rules, according to the Court’s plan. Indeed, some are already there.
Thus, while the memo to counsel said that the electronic briefs “should” be available the next business day, it is now apparent that whether that actually occurs will depend upon whether the ABA site does display them that quickly.
Bummer. In the past, when it was only doing merits briefs, the ABA did not post them reliably the next day, the next week, or sometimes even the next month. I will believe “the next business day” when I see it.
Comment by Kent Scheidegger — September 11, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
ABA may not have been updating as much this summer since the OT 07 Term hasn’t started yet, or were getting things into place to implement this program.
I know after checking it the other day it seemed ABA had a good amount of briefs up on the site. If anything this will be the first year for this so naturally they may have issues getting this up and running.
Comment by Phillip Edens — September 11, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
Does anyone have any insight as to where we can find cert. petitions, other than those filed by the SG? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Comment by eliot.turner — September 12, 2007 @ 10:51 am