Thursday, March 18, 2010

SCOTUS Gets a Facelift

This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court unveiled a new website, http://www.supremecourt.gov. The new site features a more modern design and several user-friendly features, including an interactive argument calendar, a feed of recent opinions, and a snazzy new search box which includes the option to limit search results to docket files. (Can’t remember what the site used to look like? Here’s a snapshot from May 2008, immortalized on the Wayback Machine.) The change came after SCOTUS received an appropriation in the latest budget to move website management in-house, after a decade of hosting and design services from the Government Printing Office (official press release at SCOTUSblog).

Update your bookmarks! The old http://www.supremecourtus.gov address will continue to work only until July 1. Our extensive U.S. Supreme Court Research Guide will likewise be updated to reflect this change.