It’s a new ballgame at 400 Second Street, NW, Glasshouse today. Or rather, on their website.

The Glasshouse Gang has gotten wider. No, Judge Holmes, they’re not stopping serving a slice pizza or a piece pie in the Judges’ cafeteria.

They’ve got more bandwidth. Since 2008, when the old “three strikes and yer out” rule went into effect, the Tax Court site has resolved that “wider still and wider, shall thy bounds be set,” as Artie Benson put it to Sir Eddie Elgar’s graduation march. At least on the internet, for e-files.

Clear? Thought not.

The old rule was that the electronically-enabled might view any given document in a Tax Court e-file not more than three (count ‘em, three) times, thereby preserving the then-limited bandwidth. Thus, parties and their attorneys or USTCPs might view any given document only three times, after which they would be locked out.

Effective today, the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, viewings are unlimited, and they’re all free, as long as not sealed.

“There is no change in the types of documents which can be viewed electronically. For example, as before, parties may not view sealed documents electronically. Also as before, nonparties may continue to view orders, opinions, and decisions an unlimited number of times through the Docket Inquiry, Orders Search, or Opinions Search portions of the Court’s site.”

And those formerly locked out can return, and gaze once again upon that which was forbidden.