Bot alerts you every time the Supreme Court silently alters its rulings

As the New York Times recently reported, the Supreme Court has a habit of silently altering its rulings on its websites. Now, the @SCOTUS_servo feed will alert you when this happens, with links to the diffs and interpretation by David Zvenyach, general counsel to the Council of the District of Columbia.


Given courts' frequent misunderstanding of technology, I asked Zvenyach if there's a risk that the Supreme Court might block his tool from crawling the decisions. He says that he checked the court website's terms of service, and that he doesn't anticipate a problem (nor should he, I would add, since the decisions are public domain documents).

Clever piece of code exposes hidden changes to Supreme Court opinions [Jeff John Roberts/Gigaom]

(via Techdirt)

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