Another issue is what happened to FLITE and JURIS--these were two USG systems that were set up to provide federal lawyers with computer-assisted legal research (as it was called then). I think the JURIS database eventually became available, but FLITE was shut down. In any event, most of this material is now outside the Thomson/West Lexis/Nexis paywall, but the current situation as I understand it is still far from ideal.