02/25/2007   English German
  Edition # 66  
San Francisco, 02-25-2007

Court data on the internet
Figure [1]: The internet search engine of the Santa
Clara County Superior Court in Silicon Valley>

Michael It seems like your input is incomplete. Could you please provide the full text you would like translated into English? Rundbrief 12/2005 We have already reported that in some states in the USA, sex offenders are required by law to have their addresses listed on the internet. But even regular court records are publicly available, and "publicly" here in the USA truly means: accessible to anyone on the internet.

Let's take, for example, the courthouse of Santa Clara, a county in Silicon Valley. Under http://www.sccaseinfo.org The translation to English is: "You can see which cases have been tried there in the last few years. It's exciting to enter the names of colleagues and come across unexpected results!

Clicking on "Search By: Party & Casetype" allows you to simply enter a last name, and the cases being handled will appear. As already mentioned in... Rundbrief 05/2000 The text translates to:

"mentioned, Americans like to abbreviate their first names, so don't search for the Oracle mogul Larry Ellison, but for 'Lawrence J. Ellison' and not for the Apple bigwig Steve Jobs, but for 'Steven P. Jobs' and you will find that these not long ago a"

(Note: The sentence seems to be incomplete, so the translation reflects that.) Court proceedings with Plumbers & Pipefitters Local No. 572Pension Fund have delivered

By the way, it's no big deal; it's completely normal in the USA for attempts to be made to extract money from wealthy people or companies through lawsuits. That doesn't necessarily mean the claims are justified. But it's somewhat nice that the formula "All are equal before the law" is actually true, at least regarding the dissemination of information about the legal proceedings on the internet.

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