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“The biggest problem is redaction. Which documents contain sensitive information? Different people have different ideas. ”

Court consultant Jim McMillan at the National Center for State Courts, on efforts in several states, including Illinois, to make case files accessible on the Internet, similar to the federal courts’ Pacer electronic system

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“I have yet to put down a brief and say, ‘I wish that had been longer.’ ”

U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts, discussing legal writing, along with seven other of the justices, in videos posted online at http://www.LawProse.org

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“Currently our country does not have the conditions to abolish the death penalty and will not have those conditions for a considerable period of time.”

Senior judge Huang Ermei of the Supreme People’s Court of China; the high court reported a reduced number of executions in 2007, although the exact number is a state secret

 

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