Do you suppose this could be an unintended consequernce of HIPPA or some other "privacy" act that our Congress passed without bothering to actually read the bill?
“It sounds like the records did not transfer from the Court...for some reason.”
You would be absolutely amazed how often that occurs. I (and others in the legal profession) have recently been talking about that “little” problem and it sometimes takes three or four tries to git-er-done. First of all, you have to have a clerk that gives a $—+, then you have to have a lawyer follow up for a year or two. It’s a great system — when it works.