Why Has the D.C. Circuit Made It More Difficult to Find Opinions?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently “upgraded” the opinion archive on its website. It is aesthetically appealing, but it is actually a significant step backwards for public access to the court’s opinions.
In “upgrading” the site, the D.C. Circuit apparently re-indexed its opinions, revising the URLs. What this means is that all previously posted hyperlinks to D.C. Circuit opinions are now dead. Clicking on them does not pull up the opinion. Instead the user is dropped off on the opinion archive landing page. This, by itself, would be but a small annoyance if one could then simply search for
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