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<body stylesrc="feefree_toc.htm">  <p> </p> <h1>Fee or Free</h1> <p> [ <a href="index.html" target="_top">Contents</a> | <a href="feefree_srch.htm" target="_top">Search</a> | <a href="feefree_post.htm" target="_top">Post</a> ] </p> <hr> <h3><tt>CONTENTS</tt></h3> <h5><em>Note: you may need to reload this page to see the most recent additions.</em></h5> <dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000001.htm" name="00000001">Does case data on the Internet reduce litigant privacy</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000008.htm" name="00000008">Whatever's publicly filed is public</a></b><i> Joe Edwards 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000005a.htm" name="0000005a">Re: Whatever's publicly filed is public</a></b><i> Lewis Kinard 7/7/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000063.htm" NAME="00000063">fee or free</a></b><i> PKratka@Aol.com 4/17/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000009.htm" name="00000009">Litigant who uses court system at public expense gives up a portion of their privacy</a></b><i> David Poole 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000a.htm" name="0000000a">Information is available on Lexis-Nexis anyway</a></b><i> Jim Johnson 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000b.htm" name="0000000b">Information is already public record and anyone could pick up the phone and obtain it from the court.</a></b><i> Patrick Mulry 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000c.htm" name="0000000c">Only searchable and queryable information is of any real use</a></b><i> Patrick Mulry 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000d.htm" name="0000000d">Info is public anyway. If privacy were the real concern, means wouldn't matter.</a></b><i> Craig Ball 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000026.htm" name="00000026">It's public material. Making it available on the internet merely makes it easily accessible</a></b><i> R. K. (Kris) Weaver 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002a.htm" name="0000002a">"Case data" is not a live camera or microphone capturing privileged communications.</a></b><i> Stewart Ransom Miller 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000047.htm" name="00000047">What's the big deal?</a></b><i> Michael Jung 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004c.htm" name="0000004c">Making information available in civil cases furthers the very words freedom of information,</a></b><i> Michael G Tacher 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p> </p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004d.htm" name="0000004d">Regardless of whether it will reduce the privacy of litigants, it will be reducing privacy to which there is no right</a></b><i> David A. Schulman 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000002.htm" name="00000002">Should the State recover costs for Open Records information requests</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000e.htm" name="0000000e">You don't have to pay a policeman to answer a question, why pay to look up court information</a></b><i> Jim Johnson 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000010.htm" name="00000010">Recovered costs should be ACTUAL costs</a></b><i> Jim Johnson 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000011.htm" name="00000011">Raise filing fees and don't charge for access.</a></b><i> Patrick Mulry 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000012.htm" name="00000012">Must have a provision for a waiver or reduction of fee for good cause shown</a></b><i> Craig Ball 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000043.htm" name="00000043">Even if the waiver was mandatory for some groups like non-profits, how do you keep the individual from being discriminated against</a></b><i> Walt Borges -- TCA Court Watch director 2/26/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000014.htm" name="00000014">Recover costs policy offends me</a></b><i> Martin L. Kahn 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000015.htm" name="00000015">It is "our" information the state is just our repository.</a></b><i> Charles J. Hughes 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000016.htm" name="00000016">Recovered costs should not include overhead or initial investment costs</a></b><i> Donald P. Butler 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000053.htm" name="00000053">The mechanism to charge and collect the fees should also be considered as overhead and not a recoverable cost.</a></b><i> Charles Matz 3/4/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000024.htm" name="00000024">You should pay us!</a></b><i> M. Taylor 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000027.htm" name="00000027">They have to provide it if I go up the counter and request it</a></b><i> R. K. (Kris) Weaver 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><a href="_feefree/00000048.htm" name="00000048"><b>There is a common law and First Amendment right of access to court records, abundantly established in the case law.</b></a><i> Michael Jung 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004e.htm" name="0000004e">Where the request is for information that should be made generally accessible to the public, the State should not charge</a></b><i> David A. Schulman 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000050.htm" name="00000050">I thought the point of the web page was to reduce the number of calls to the clerk's office</a></b><i> JULIA F. PENDERY 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000054.htm" name="00000054">The basic tenet . . . is that a person does not come "like a serf" hat in hand, seeking permission of the lord to haveaccess to public records. Access to public records is a matter of right.</a></b><i> Ohio Court of Appeals, 3/4/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000055.htm" name="00000055">The public pays enough for taxes, that pay salaries and buy equipment as it is.</a></b><i> Alice 3/8/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000003.htm" name="00000003">Should users be charged for Internet access to Court data</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000000f.htm" name="0000000f">Court should be run for the benefit of the public, and not for the protection of private information publishers.</a></b><i> JimJohnson 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000013.htm" name="00000013">Public needs a public resource they can use to level the playing field a bit.</a></b><i> Craig Ball 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000017.htm" name="00000017">Government information should be free to the public</a></b><i> K.Slaydon 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000018.htm" name="00000018">The state should not be in the business of "selling" public information</a></b><i> Joe Edwards 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000019.htm" name="00000019">If I had to pay, I'd probably just call the clerk</a></b><i> Dennis L. Roossien 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000005c.htm" name="0000005c">Re: If I had to pay, I'd probably just call the clerk</a></b><i> Jeff Lane 8/9/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000003c.htm" name="0000003c">Why should people from out of town be charged for information available without imposition of any additional incremental effort</a></b><i> Tony Petrocchi 2/23/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000003e.htm" name="0000003e">If I can get the information with a short walk to the courthouse or a local call, why shouldn't the lawyer in Gilmer be able to get the same thing - FOR FREE - just like me - with just as little effort</a></b><i> Robert Barbee 2/23/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001a.htm" name="0000001a">Preferably nothing, but a yearly subscription fee is more reasonable than per page.</a></b><i> Deidre M. Waters 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001b.htm" name="0000001b">5th Court's website has reduced by 90% my calls to the court staff.</a></b><i> Paul Koning 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001c.htm" name="0000001c">If there is a charge, why should I use the internet instead of Westlaw</a></b><i> Ruth Malinas 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001d.htm" name="0000001d">It offends me anytime a State agency charges for information</a></b><i> Martin L. Kahn 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001e.htm" name="0000001e">Per minute charges could quickly become outrageous</a></b><i> Catherine Magruder 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000028.htm" name="00000028">If I'm representing an indigent it will be charged back to the county regardless</a></b><i> R. K. (Kris) Weaver 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002b.htm" name="0000002b">Charging for furnishing the information via computer would be like a toll (at the courthouse door)</a></b><i> Stewart Ransom Miller 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><a href="_feefree/00000049.htm" name="00000049"><b>Costs will be small compared to the costs of responding to telephonic and personal inquiries to deputy clerks.</b></a><i> Michael Jung 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004f.htm" name="0000004f">Providing the information to a thousand users costs almost nothing more than to provide it to one</a></b><i> David A. Schulman 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000051.htm" name="00000051">We'll just call the clerk or come to the clerk's office</a></b><i> Julia Pendery, Cowles and Thompson 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000052.htm" name="00000052">"(not only to TAX) but 'TO BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER' "</a></b><i> Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis", December 1776</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000061.htm" NAME="00000061">Every citizen is presumed to know the law thus declared, and it needs no argument to show that justice requires that all should have free access to the opinions...</a></b><i> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court - 1886 4/2/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000004.htm" name="00000004">Should public and litigants be charged less than attorneys and businesses</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000001f.htm" name="0000001f">Litigants should be able to access their own information for free.</a></b><i> Catherine Magruder 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000020.htm" name="00000020">Will it be on an honor system?</a></b><i> Craig Ball 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004a.htm" name="0000004a">Attorneys and businesses are members of the "public," too.</a></b><i> Michael Jung 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000005.htm" name="00000005">What case level information should be made available</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000021.htm" name="00000021">Everything</a></b><i> Martin L. Kahn 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000022.htm" name="00000022">Make everything available, from the higest court to the lowest</a></b><i> Deirdre M. Waters 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000006.htm" name="00000006">What court services and information should be provided over the internet</a></b><i> JCIT 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000023.htm" name="00000023">Everything that one could get from a trip to the courthouse</a></b><i> Marc R. Stanley 2/21/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000003d.htm" name="0000003d">Electronic filing</a></b><i> Tony Petrocchi 2/23/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000004b.htm" name="0000004b">Electronic filing has been authorized by statute for many years</a></b><i> Michael Jung 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000025.htm" name="00000025">Other Comments</a></b><i> Charles Matz 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd></dd> <dd><dl> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002c.htm" name="0000002c">I love the convenience of getting court of appeals information by internet.</a></b><i> R. K. (Kris) Weaver 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002d.htm" name="0000002d">Examine the secret agenda of those who would closed the courts to public scrutiny</a></b><i> Stewart Ransom Miller 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002e.htm" name="0000002e">Having access is very helpful and cost efficient</a></b><i> RICHARD E. YOUNG 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000002f.htm" name="0000002f">A vote for public access</a></b><i> Homero C. Canales 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000030.htm" name="00000030">I think if it is public record it should be made public.</a></b><i> Maggie Mushitz-Compton 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000031.htm" name="00000031">State employees (including elected officials) work for the public, but very few of them seem willing to accept or acknowledge that fact</a></b><i> Susan Taylor 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000032.htm" name="00000032">The Internet is the greatest tool for the equalization of information since the printing press</a></b><i> Patrick T. Mulry 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000033.htm" name="00000033">Keep the free in freedom!</a></b><i> Craig Ball 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000034.htm" name="00000034">The Dallas Court of Appeals Website is by far the best judicial website in Texas. In fact it is the best one I have ever seen.</a></b><i> Paul Koning 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000036.htm" name="00000036">Maintaining obstacles to obtaining information only ensures that those who cannot afford an attorney will remain in the dark.</a></b><i> Brian Casey 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000037.htm" name="00000037">Thanks to all the people responsible for this great site.</a></b><i> Janet R. Randle 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000038.htm" name="00000038">The site is AWESOME !</a></b><i> P. Michael Jung 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000039.htm" name="00000039">This website is an outstanding model for other Courts of Appeals to follow</a></b><i> Carlos Mattioli 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000003a.htm" name="0000003a">Your court web site is quite impressive.</a></b><i> Erika Wayne, Law Librarian, Stanford Law School 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/0000003b.htm" name="0000003b">The judiciary serves two distinct purposes</a></b><i> Hank Voegtle 2/22/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000044.htm" name="00000044">The Senate Interim Committee on Public Information is the best hope for preserving free access to court info on-line</a></b><i> Walt Borges -- director of Texas Citizen Action's Court Watch 2/26/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000045.htm" name="00000045">Having access on the Internet to information is invaluable</a></b><i> LaDawn Conway 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000046.htm" name="00000046">It's high time for the Courts to get on the Net - give the public an opportunity to see and study what for too long has beeninaccessible</a></b><i> Paula Sweeney 2/27/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000058.htm" name="00000058">You still have the best judicial site in the nation.</a></b><i> Judge Mike O'Neil 4/24/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000057.htm" name="00000057">Charging fees for access to court information will have the effect of keeping the public uninformed and ignorant -- not a worthy goal of a free society. Let the light of knowledge shine so the truth may be illuminated. </a></b><i>Bill Beard 5/23/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a href="_feefree/00000059.htm" name="00000059">I wish I had known about the email (eNotes!) update capability earlier, it would have saved me calling the clerk *MANY* times</a></b><i> John Horany 6/13/98</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/0000005f.htm" NAME="0000005f">Thank You So Much!</a></b><i> Robert D. Barbee 3/31/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000060.htm" NAME="00000060">What a fabulous site</a></b><i> Matt Muller 4/2/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000062.htm" NAME="00000062">This an amazing website.</a></b><i> Deborah Claudio 4/15/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000064.htm" NAME="00000064">AWESOME site!!!</a></b><i> Kelly H Kolb 5/31/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <dt><b><a HREF="_feefree/00000065.htm" NAME="00000065">Your site is one of the best court sites I have ever seen.</a></b><i> Jonathan Hughes 5/31/99</i></dt> <dd><dl> <p></p> </dl> </dd> <p></p> </dl> </dd> </dl> <dl> <hr> <h5>Last changed: July 20, 2006 </h5>  </body>