Millions of U.S. court records bound for shredder

Friday, August 26, 2011

CHICAGO -- Wrestling with the challenges of documents in the digital age, U.S. officials are destroying millions of paper federal court records to save storage costs -- but the effort is raising the ire of some historians, private detectives and others who heavily rely on the files.

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