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Supreme Court Finds 2,560 Typos in Online Rulings and Commits to Immediate Corrections

The court’s shift from external vendors to in-house digitization aims to strengthen oversight after legacy scanning flaws

Overview

  • An official July 15 report identified about 2,560 typographical errors across 855 rulings published online for cases from 1948 to 2016.
  • Most mistakes involved misspellings, punctuation mishaps and incorrect numbers, and none altered the substantive meaning of the decisions.
  • Errors concentrated in decades-old documents that external contractors scanned under low-accuracy conditions and faced insufficient quality checks.
  • Since October 2021, the court has reviewed its precedent archive and now handles all digitization internally to improve quality control.
  • The court vowed to correct future discrepancies on its website or in published case compilations as soon as they are detected.