Though electronic docketing in federal court is nearly universal, 32 of the 92 districts still use electronic case-filing programs that hide the existence of potentially hundreds of civil and criminal files.
Computer searches of known sealed cases produce results like the “case does not exist” or the number is “not valid,” rather than identify existing, but sealed cases. This has brought cries that courts have concealed files. The Judicial Conference of the United States, the policymaking body for the federal courts, in March “strongly urged” district courts to eliminate the misleading computer response and identify a case as “sealed.”
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