roundtable: Re: Court Information-$.75 minute-Mar. 29 Senate Hearing (fwd)

roundtable: Re: Court Information/$.75 minute/Mar. 29 Senate Hearing (fwd)

Re: Court Information/$.75 minute/Mar. 29 Senate Hearing (fwd)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Mon, 27 Mar 1995 06:08:41 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 06:08:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Court Information/$.75 minute/Mar. 29 Senate Hearing (fwd)
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On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, Schatz Paquin wrote:
> 
> On 3/22/95, James Love posted a message relating to a renewed demand 
> that someone create a government-owned database of court opinions.  The 
> message was linked to a hearing to be held on March 29, 1995;  and 
> included a copy of a letter Mr. Love sent to Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, 
> dated March 22.
> 
> The following statement (referenced attachments omitted) reflects West
> Publishing's concerns regarding Jamie Love's March 22 letter:

  What this fight is all about is the busting of West's omonstrous 
monopoly over legal information, which the courts and the legal 
profession have for centuries encouraged as a part of their own 
unilateral control over the legal process.  The lawyer's monopoly has 
been extensively discussed in the literature, and uuiformlyy denouunced 
by scholars.  For judges and lawyers, the citizens of this country are 
in legal theory unfit to engage in legal speech, but they have never 
been able to disclose the facts that support that outragious assertion.  
That arrogance is designed to convert the American legal system into a 
ruthless instrument of extortion.  West is the linchpin in this system 
of extortion. 

  I should know.  For almost 20 years I litigated the issue in the 
Federal courts.  I have the dubious distinction of being the only 
person in this nation who has ever been authorized by a Federal 
Appellate Court to represent his corporation in court without a lawyer, 
as reported in In Re Victor Publishers, Inc., 545 F.2d 285, 286, n.* 
(1st Cir. 1976). 

  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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