No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!

Heard an ugly rumor of late, that some entity (whether it's the CRCB or TCRA is unclear) is picking every tenth court reporting agency in the state to audit their compliance with everyone's favorite bastard stepchild of specious small-minded reasoning and anticompetitive do-gooderness, the Texas Uniform Format Manual.
 
Now, part of me applauds this effort.  It has always seemed Texas firms and reporters were free to choose to which rules they would abide, without a second thought as to the consequences, since the likelihood of someone actually filing a grievance is roughly equivalent to the probability that medical malpractice carriers will actually lower premiums post Prop 12.   Complying with the format had a feel of driving from San Antonio to El Paso at 65 when you had an iron-clad guarantee that the DPS had the day off.
 
But the other, less knee-jerky fraction of my being is incredulous that the Stenonazis have chosen now, in the shadow of 10-pitchgate, to hold our feet to the fire.  Do we all now get to pull an Anne Frank, waiting pensively in our respective attics for the Gestapo to kick in our door with a tape measure so they might bust our chops over a character per inch?

If anyone's been stung by the Secret Police, lemme know.  Dying to find out if this one's true.

"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion." - Joseph Paul Göebbels