RECAP Used To Show Vacated Rulings That A Judge Wanted Gone

from the is-this-good-or-bad dept

Wed, Aug 19th 2009 11:39pm — Mike Masnick

Last week, we wrote about the launch of RECAP, a neat little tool for making sure that more public domain court rulings are actually accessible to the public (what a concept). Apparently, the tool is already useful. Thomas O'Toole points us to the news of someone who used RECAP to point to rulings that were vacated and then (oddly) ordered to be removed from various databases. All of this was a part of a settlement agreement. Rulings get vacated all the time, but having the judge order the various databases that hold rulings to delete them seems a bit extreme. However, thanks to RECAP it seems that the original rulings are still available. Yet another reminder that you can't make things disappear online.

Filed Under: legal documents, pacer, public domain, recap

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Pcb manufacture, 20 Aug 2009 @ 12:45am

Perhaps...
In the dark ages some governments tried to band the printing of certain books when the new technology of mass printing was embraced, some of those books are still in existance today.
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NullOp, 20 Aug 2009 @ 5:20am

vacated...
How wonderful, the ability to take back what you said. Its like when we were all kids. Apparently some of are still kids. Its nice to know RECAP is there with the original ruling.
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PRMan, 20 Aug 2009 @ 6:51am

Quick, publish them on Wikileaks
Put them on Wikileaks before the judge orders RECAP to remove them.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Aug 2009 @ 9:39am

Yay Streisand Effect!
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