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Editor’s Note: Despite what some reporters may think, we are striving to avoid obscurity. We prefer to be endearingly niche. But to prevent a self-fulfilling local news prophecy, we need your help on your email. 

You’ve been getting our stand alone stories with few if any issues. But we’ve found that our Friday news roundup is ending up in the spam/filter folder for a lot of our subscribers with a dot gov email address or corporate/business address. Given that a surprising and comical amount of Assistant U.S. Attorneys and Fortune 500 CEOs subscribe to Court Watch, we probably should fix that. The problem is the email filters don’t really trust any email that has fifty plus links in one email. That makes sense as a general rule for a filter structure, however it does not work when you run a newsletter that links to court records in every bullet. (editor’s note to the editor’s note: Someone should tell DOGE to fix it - imagine all the crypto AI bro newsletters they’re are missing)

To address this issue a few suggestions:

• First, if you’re a subscriber with a dot gov, corporate email or haven’t been getting our Friday roundups, send an email to [email protected]  It’ll help your filter system know that you want to receive emails. Our inbox/life will likely regret this request immediately, but still do it. 

• Second, add this email address ( [email protected] and [email protected]) to your ‘safelist’ or contact list. beehiiv has a rundown of how to do this.

• Third, check your spam filters and click ‘safe’ on past Court Watch issues.

• Fourth, if the first three options don’t work by Saturday, subscribe under your personal email address. Gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and even AOL seem to love us. 

• Lastly, we always publish our weekly roundup by 6:45AM EST on Friday so you can check our website if it’s not in your inbox. That approach is most certainly not our preferred method as the subscriber numbers help us track growth of our reporting or get advertising revenue to offset our PACER fees. So please try the first four options before relying on this.

Thanks for your assistance. If you missed past weekly roundups in the last month, they’re available for a limited time on our site for free this month as we address this issue.