I write to inform principally students and young lawyers of a case with documents that can educate in both tax crimes and white collar crimes. The case is United States v. Goldstein (D. Md. No. 8:25-cr-00006), with free access to docket entries on CourtListener, here. CourtListener has the docket entries but offers free access to a document only after the first CourtListener member retrieves the document from PACER, a paid service. For a case of this notoriety, most of the important documents will have been so retrieved and are available free.
Although I have only looked at some of the documents that interest me, I think the quality of lawyering is very good. Furthermore, tax crimes are white-collar crimes in a tax setting. Hence, the documents (which are many) are often hashing out themes that will be of interest to lawyers and students of white -collar crimes.
I recommend that those interested review the CourtListener document entries and review the documents that you find interesting.
You can also do a search of the CourtListener Recap Archive which has docket sheets and documents for all federal cases. The Recap Archive with case search features is here and looks like this:
Finally, CourtListener is a good resource. The home page is here. It is free to join and relies on donations. In my practice and writing, I use CourtListener a lot.
Jack: I logged into the Court Listener website; its asking for donation of $10 per month? "free to join" guess not; may be free to join but pay $10 per month.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Back when I joined, it did not require any payment (although I do make voluntary annual contributions). The service promotes itself as a free service for basic features which I have found include access to docket entries where, once a member (any member) has downloaded a document from Pacer, that document gets populated to CourtListener. So for cases that draw a lot of interest, many of the documents will be available for CourtListener. Has anyone else experienced the same pay to play experience?
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