Re: Does Anyone Publish US Supreme Court Decisions in html?

Thanks it worked.

However, I do have one complaint about the way Cornell does it. They
put each part is a separate page. Thus you have to go through 7 print
cycles in a case like Hamadi where there were 6 opinions plus the
syllabus. In addition to the 7 cycles, you lose the page sequence.

Using Opera 8.54 and Wordperfect 5.1, I was able to print the 185 pages
on 17 duplex printed sheets using 6 pt Times Roman, double columns, all
paragraph lines perfectly wrapped.

There is one not at all obvious trick in the process. Opera has an
..ini file option called SaveTxtCharsPerLine=5000 needed to eliminate
some hard returns so Wordperfect can realign all the lines.

I tried doing this with M$ Internet Explorer but concluded that it was
not possible for lack of an equivalent option.



Lee Hollaar wrote:
In article <1151609513.512803.40100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> minneapolis55@xxxxxxxx writes:
Everyone has the court's pdf version.

When you want to print them, the paper waste is enormous because they
have so little on each page. Using n-up printing doesn't solve the
problem, because the text can then become microscopic.

I tried pdf text conversion software. It doesn't solve the problem
because there are no blank lines between paragraphs in the pdf. You
can't separate paragraphs from indented text.

Someone should bring an environmental impact case against the court for
not evaulating how much paper their pdf format opinions waste.

html works fine. With Opera, I don't know about IE, you can set the
font size for the printout and reduce 100 or so pdf pages to 20 or 30.
But where can I find US Supreme Court decisions in html?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

Be sure to donate if you find their work valuable, not only in
publishing the decisions as soon as they are available, but providing
email notification and summaries of the issues in a case right
before oral arguments.

Also, they have a vast collection of statutes and regulations also
online.

A great resource, and one worth of support.

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