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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 high-profile article highlighting the issue of a silently shifting court record. This completely removes the "silently".



  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-is...

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/rlazarus/docs/articles/La...




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