In a sign of the times, the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts has issued an order that all pleadings be filed electronically. Failure to comply with this order will result in sanctions which could include the court ignoring pleadings not filed electronically. This system of electronic filing has been in use for some time, and lawyers who have used it praise it, particularly its use of the Adobe PDF format. Several have urged me to look into the technology in use in the District Court for possible adoption by the registry. I’ll certainly try to do that, but in the meantime, we’re looking into expanding our use of PDF for a variety of data maintained by the registry.
