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Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by kragen on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:42PM (#43733502)
Under US law, there is no such thing as a right to be forgotten, because it would infringe on the public's right to remember. This is considered especially important when what is being remembered is a lawsuit, where transparency is essential to protecting the public interest.
Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by bdangubic on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:47PM (#43733537)
cases are generally expunged after X number of years (X varies state to state but there is always an X).
Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by kragen on Friday April 18, 2025 @09:58PM (#43733586)
Generally not automatically, and not for civil lawsuits or for all crimes, and in the US expungement from court records does not obligate any third party to falsify newspaper archives, etc.: https://ccresourcecenter.org/state-restoration-profiles/50-s...

A recent law review article on the prospects of this so-called "right" under US law is https://mttlr.org/2020/02/why-the-right-to-be-forgotten-wont..., citing https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/420/469/ ("It is unconstitutional under the First Amendment to criminalize releasing the name of a rape victim or to permit a private right of action against the press for doing so."), and https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/12.... See also https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/13....

Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by NoTeslaThrow on Saturday April 19, 2025 @11:11AM (#43736948)
> because it would infringe on the public's right to remember

? What are you referring to? I've never heard of such a concept.

Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by kragen on Sunday April 20, 2025 @01:04PM (#43744999)
Think about it. If you can, employ reasoning at a deeper level than just repeating slogans and comparing them for lexical equality.
Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by NoTeslaThrow on Monday April 21, 2025 @04:14PM (#43755966)
I'm not sure what a right is if not a "slogan".
Re:Full Text Search of US Court records by kragen on Friday April 25, 2025 @11:06PM (#43800558)
Then why would you comment in the first place? Just to troll, I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights

Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are an important concept in law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology.

The history of social conflicts has often involved attempts to define and redefine rights. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "rights structure the form of governments, the content of laws, and the shape of morality as it is currently perceived".