Legal Times, March 15, 2007
By Tony Mauro

The Judicial Conference took steps Tuesday to end "secret" dockets in federal courts and to eventually put audio of federal court proceedings online.

Meeting at the Supreme Court, the conference — the policy-making body of the federal judiciary — urged all federal courts to end the practice whereby some cases under seal "vanish" from electronic dockets and databases.

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