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Idaho courts flout First Amendment law in Ninth Circuit Since time beyond memory, reporters on the court beat looked through a box on the clerk’s counter that held the new civil complaints filed that day. They were panning for nuggets of news. Federal Courthouse, Boise, Idaho (Courthouse News photo / Chris Marshall) Courthouse News late Friday filed a First Amendment action against Idaho’s court administrator over her refusal to provide access to new court documents when they are received, ...

The Penobscot County (Maine) Courthouse. (Courthouse News via Wikipedia) (CN) — A cult-like adherence to the notion of “practical obscurity” for electronic court records is dead. Or is it. In black and white, Maine’s new restriction on access to electronic court records exposes the tarnished bones of an old battle. It is the most blatant example yet of an American court walking forward on technology and in synchronous motion walking backward on transparency. A court committee itself op...