I made a request to Fish & Wildlife for a copy of the Have Trunk Will Travel CBW permit. Access the supplied documents, including material from past requests, too. The US Fish & Wildlife Service is responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act. As part of this Act, an individual or organization that wants to use […]
Month: April 2013
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An Open PACER
The costs associated with PACER has been an issue for some time. The late Aaron Swartz once downloaded 20% of the database (a figure later corrected to less than 1%) before the government shut down the server. Aaron did so because he believe that we should have access to the documents on PACER, and I agree with him, […]
Publishing single court documents is easy: just incorporate a link into a post. However, I wanted a better approach for those cases where I had several court documents. I decided to take a copy of the PACER docket, and then replace the links with those for a local document. People can then access the documents […]
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Bad Dentists and Open Libraries
The newest addition to the document collection is an opinion by Judge Paul Crotty related to the case Robert Allen Lee vs. Stacey Makhnevich et al. The case is a class action lawsuit against a dentist who forces patients into signing a confidentiality document before treatment, and her attempts to intimidate the dental patient, Lee, who wrote uncomplimentary […]
Today the EPA released a comment on the State Department’s draft report on the Keystone XL Pipeline. The conclusion states: Based on our review, we have rated the DSEIS as E0-2 (“Environmental Objections-Insufficient Information”) (see enclosed “Summary of Rating Defmitions and Follow-up Actions”). Environmental Objections is defined as: The EPA reyiew has identified significant environmental […]