Not the most exciting news to start out the New Year; but maybe we need something a little mundane to get us over last night’s party. For reasons known only to the Bureaucrats on High, the Supreme Court has changed the format of the Cover Sheets used for filing civil and criminal cases.
Did we have to provide Social Security/EIN numbers in the old Cover Sheets? What’s going on with that? And…Driver’s License numbers? I hope someone’s going to be guarding these cover sheets in some super secret Court Clerk bunker somewhere. Much room for mischief here.
EDIT: Well, this helps some: “The new cover sheets are not to be filed, nor made a part of the case. The clerk of the court shall destroy each cover sheet within thirty days.”