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Public Access
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Delaware Chancery Law Blog
Delaware State Courts to Remain Closed to the Public Through June 13
On May 14, 2020, Delaware Chief Justice Seitz entered an Order further extending the public closure of all Delaware State courthouses and their administrative offices through June 13, 2020 (a…
Environmental Law Blog
New Cases – Condemning Easements for Public Beach Access and Use
On April 16, 2020, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court, the state’s intermediate appellate court, published three precedential opinions concerning the state’s condemnation of ocean-front property for…
LawSites
In Key Ruling for Public Access, SCOTUS Says No Copyright In Georgia Code Annotations
By Bob Ambrogi
In a watershed ruling for public access to primary legal materials, the Supreme Court today held that the state of Georgia cannot claim a copyright in the annotations contained in…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Library of Congress Closes to Public
Out of an abundance of caution, all Library of Congress buildings and facilities will be closed to the public, including researchers and others with reader identification cards, until further notice…
Cooking with SALT
MS Department of Revenue Closed to the Public
All Mississippi Department of Revenue District Offices are closed to the public. Starting tomorrow, March 17th, the counter at the Clinton headquarters that provides customer service will be shut down.…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
San Francisco County Transportation Authority is Not Subject to the City’s Sunshine Ordinance
The First District Court of Appeal held that the San Francisco County Transportation Authority is a state agency and thus did not need to comply with local public access rules.…
Patents Post-Grant
PTAB POP Recalibrates Institution Analysis for Public Accessibility
By Scott McKeown, Scott McKeown Wolf Greenfield
Totality of Circumstances for Determining Public Accessibility Over the years, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board had become panel dependent in assessing questions of public accessibility at institution. Some panels seemed to require a…
PTABWatch
A Reference is Publicly Accessible if a Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art Could Access the Reference
In a recent decision vacating the PTAB’s finding that a draft standard for video coding emailed to a listserv was not publicly accessible, the Federal Circuit again corrected the PTAB’s…
Municipal Minute
PAC Releases Annual OMA/FOIA Report of 2018 Activities
"Sunshine Week" came and went this year without any fanfare from the Illinois Attorney General's office. Typically, that is when the Public Access Counselor (PAC) publishes its annual report on…
Life Science Legal Report
Federal Circuit Upholds PTAB Decision Finding Library Website’s Indexing and Search Capabilities Insufficient to Establish Public Accessibility
As we have reported in several recent posts, the PTAB often rigorously evaluates public accessibility when considering non-patent prior art. Disputes over accessibility are often pivotal because insufficient evidence of…