WestLaw and LexisNexis need to update their scanning software immediately. We noticed in WestLaw’s scan of a recent trial pleading in the ongoing Cloverdale Rancheria of Pomo Indians v. Salazar, that “Pomo” had repeatedly been scanned in as “Porno.” [As you probably know, WestLaw and LexisNexis now offer a service allowing users to download original trial pleadings and briefs, but with the same text available for searching, etc.]

Hoping it was a one-time-only miscue, we searched other areas in WestLaw and LexisNexis. “Porno Indians” appears in WL’s allcases database four time, and a whopping 375 times in WL’s various trial pleadings and briefs databases. It also appears a handful of times in WL’s journals and law reviews databases but only in CLE materials (good job, student law review editors!).

LexisNexis is guilty as well, with “Porno Indians” appearing eight times in its cases databases and 38 times in its trial pleadings and briefs (but none at all in its law journals databases).