Re: Help! West Publishing seeks broad change in FOIA (fwd)

From: James Love <love[_at_]Essential.ORG>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 15:39:49 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 1 Mar 1995, Nic Herriges wrote:
> Actually, it seems that a lot of this type of debate could be avoided if
> we developed a systematic, vendor-neutral citation system instead of the
> vendor-specific system inherited from a technologically different era.
> Are there plans of this nature afoot or is the legal profession well
> behind the times in the standardization arena (or am I living in a fool's
> paradise)?

   The Administrative Office of the Court proposed one in 1991. The States of Louisiana, Colorado, Wisconsin and Florida have done something about this or are trying as we speak. British Columbia and the Military Court of Appeals began paragraph numbering last year. The American Association of Law Libraries and the American Assocation of Legal Publishers are working on this. The national bar association is moving at the speed on an iceberg on this. West is extremely active in all these venues, in opposition.

    jamie

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James Love, TAP; internet: love[_at_]tap.org P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036; v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176 12 Church Road, Ardmore, PA 19003; v. 610/658-0880; f. 610/649-4066 Received on Thu Mar 02 1995 - 20:55:12 GMT