Newsgroups: alt.etext From: dell@wiretap.spies.com (Thomas Dell) Subject: [comp.org.eff.talk] JURIS - IITF to meet with Data Users (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: The Internet Wiretap Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 01:34:11 GMT Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk From: love@essential.org (James Love) Subject: JURIS - IITF to meet with Data Users (fwd) Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 1993 11:29:19 -0400 Organization: EFF mail-news gateway Lines: 71 >From TAP-INFO internet distribution list Taxpayer Assets Project Crown Jewels Campaign - JURIS October 29, 1993 - IITF Government Information Working Group Agrees to Host Meeting on Future of JURIS - Clinton Administration agrees to meet to with data users and value added publishers to discuss concerns about future of JURIS, and alternative methods of providing public access to federal legal information - Data users to present IITF with specific proposals for broadening public access to wide range of legal documents, including federal caselaw, statues, regulations, executive branch published and unpublished administrative law, foreign treaties, and other legal documents (items in JURIS database) - The issue of a new DOJ procurement for legal services will be discussed, as will the problem of West Publishing control of official judicial citations and page numbers On Thursday the Clinton Administration Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) agreed to schedule a meeting with data users and value added legal publishers who are concerned about the future of the Department of Justice JURIS program. The meeting will be chaired by Bruce McConnell, who is Chief of Information Policy at the Office and Management and Budget (OMB), and who is chair of the IITF interagency Government Information Working Group. The purpose of the meeting will to discuss the public interest in preserving the JURIS database, which is the nation's most important database of federal legal information, as well as the need to provide public access to the JURIS data, and to solve anticompetitive problems concerning West's claim of copyright on the page numbers of published judicial opinions. One issue that will be explored concerns DOJ's current plans for a new procurement of online searching services. DOJ plans to write a procurement that only LEXIS and WESTLAW can respond to. We will ask that the DOJ procurement be more competitive, and that it be designed to bring in at least one new player, who will make the data available both to DOJ and to public. James Love (love@essential.org; 215/658-0880) Taxpayer Assets Project --------------------------------------------------------------------- TAP-INFO is an Internet Distribution List provided by the Taxpayer Assets Project (TAP). TAP was founded by Ralph Nader to monitor the management of government property, including information systems and data, government funded R&D, spectrum allocation and other government assets. TAP-INFO reports on TAP activities relating to federal information policy. tap-info is archived at ftp.cpsr.org; gopher.cpsr.org and wais.cpsr.org Subscription requests to tap-info to listserver@essential.org with the message: subscribe tap-info your name --------------------------------------------------------------------- Taxpayer Assets Project; P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 v. 202/387-8030; f. 202/234-5176; internet: tap@essential.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------