Judicial Conference Launches Pilot Program to Make Federal Court Opinions Accessible via FDsys

While the press release headline reads "Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access" because the Judicial Conference has increased the number of documents members of the public can obtain free through PACER and, after its two-year pilot project, approved allowing federal courts to make digital audio recordings of court hearings available through PACER (for $2.40 per audio file), the most noteworthy development is this -- the Conference's approval of a pilot program to allow up to 12 courts to publish federal district and bankruptcy court opinions via the GPO's FDsys "so members of the public can more easily search across opinions and across courts." [JH]