Abstract
Abstract Today, the Supreme Court of the United States regularly distributes its opinions and orders electronically immediately upon their announcement from the bench. The story of the high court's move into the computer age is not one of overcoming technical problems so much as one of overcoming political problems. The result was that a coalition of legal-information providers and news organizations and associations, called the Supreme Court Opinion Network (SCON), was formed to address the Court's peculiar requirements. This article describes not only the computer system that ultimately emerged. Project Hermes, but also the lengthy and circuitous route the Court felt it necessary to take in achieving a rather straightforward technical goal. This decidedly human story of coalition building and management of perceptions is told from the perspective of one who was at the center of the effort over a four-year period—one of SCON's founding directors and its president.
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