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I think this is such a great example of a small bit of tech that completely changes the dynamic of how we understand the Court's work. The NYT spent a whole hi

I think this is such a great example of a small bit of tech that completely changes the dynamic of how we understand the Court's work. The NYT spent a whole high-profile article highlighting the issue of a silently shifting court record. This completely removes the "silently".

panarky 12y ago
The Supreme Court has been quietly revising its decisions years after they were issued, altering the law of the land without public notice. The revisions include “truly substantive changes in factual statements and legal reasoning,” said Richard J. Lazarus, a law professor at Harvard and the author of a new study examining the phenomenon. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/final-word-on-us-law-isnt-supreme-court-keeps-editing.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/final-word-on-us-law-is... http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/rlazarus/docs/articles/LazarusRichardTheNonFinalityOfSupremeCourtOpinionsFullVersion21May14.pdf http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/rlazarus/docs/articles/La...