ABSTRACT
Developing technology and information systems for courts is a highly appropriate activity, because receiving, processing, and disseminating information is the method by which courts achieve their objective. From the initial filing of a case to the final postdisposition action, litigants, the bar, judges and their staffs, and the public, are entirely dependant upon timely and accurate information about the status and the substance of the case. Courts have always had information systems. Manually maintained docket books, ledgers, index cards, and file folders, combined with handwritten documents and notices are information systems. Some courts to this day continue to process information in this manner, while many more have hybrid systems that combine manual and automated components.
