A Most Welcome Development

The penultimate sentence in the Guidelines to which Tom linked is this:

“Briefs submitted electronically should be available on the Courts web site the next business day.”

That database will be an enormously helpful resource — to litigants, counsel, scholars, students and researchers alike. The difficulty of finding all briefs in a readable format and a timely fashion has been a fairly obvious online gap for a while now, especially for those who have no access to Westlaw or Lexis. Many thanks to Bill Suter and the Clerk’s Office for establishing the database.