News From PACER
PACER – “Customers of the federal court’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system now have access, without charge, to district court written opinions.” (via) Not a big deal really....
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U.S. Courts – “Back in the paper world, we constantly had law firm runners who came to the clerk’s office to make copies of case files. They’d have to drive to the courthouse, find a parking place,...
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Via the ever diligent Abbie Mulvihill, a US Courts press release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings...
View ArticleGo! Free PACER! Go!
Interesting news from the WSJ Law Blog – “thanks to a joint venture of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts and the Government Printing Office, PACER is now being offered free —...
View ArticlePlug-in opens up federal courts, with your help
CNET News – “The U.S. Congress allows the federal courts to charge a fee–currently set at 8 cents a page–to search for and download documents. The database, called PACER, is strict about charging and...
View ArticleFederal Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin
Wired.com – “The federal court system doesn’t seem to like Harlan Yu and his fellow merry pranksters who made a tool to free court documents from an unwieldy computer system that has a nasty habit of...
View ArticleDOJ Pays $4M a Year to Read Public Court Documents
Wired – “The federal court system charged the Department of Justice more than $4 million in 2009 for access to its electronic court filing system, which is composed entirely of documents in the public...
View ArticlePACER: Picking Up the Pace?
NYLJ – “Not long ago, someone who wanted a copy of a court document had to travel to the courthouse where that particular case resided, ask a clerk to make a copy, and pay a typically steep copying...
View ArticleThis Law is My Law
Radio Berkman – “This week we sit down with Carl Malamud, who with the group Public.Resource.org is pushing to put law in the public domain. We covered the issue of copyright on law a few months ago in...
View ArticleJudiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access
US Courts – “The Judicial Conference of the United States today approved key steps to improve public access to federal courts by increasing the availability of court opinions and expanding the services...
View ArticlePACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law
Steve Schultze – “Readers of this blog are probably already familiar with the U.S. Federal Courts’ system for electronic access called PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records). PACER is unlike...
View ArticleNew Website Launches Bankruptcy-Focused PACER Alternative
Bankruptcy Beat – WSJ – “We recently received an email announcing the latest work-around, a bankruptcy-specific website that says it’s “tearing down PACER’s pay wall and bringing transparency to public...
View ArticleThe inside story of Aaron Swartz’s campaign to liberate court filings
“Years before the JSTOR scraping project that led to Aaron Swartz’s indictment on federal hacking charges—and perhaps to his suicide—the open-data activist scraped documents from PACER, the federal...
View ArticlePACER Survey Shows Rise in User Satisfaction
“PACER has seen a sharp rise in overall user satisfaction since a comparable survey was conducted in 2009, with 90 percent of users saying they are satisfied or highly satisfied with the internet-based...
View Article25 Years Later, PACER, Electronic Filing Continue to Change Courts
“Twenty-five years ago, computers were hurtling America into the Information Age. From 1987 to 1989, the nation’s PC sales tripled, as consumers gained unprecedented power to process words, crunch...
View ArticleSenator demands US courts recover 10 years of online public records
“The head of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is urging the federal bureaucracy to restore a decade’s worth of electronic court documents that were deleted last month from online viewing because...
View ArticleClass Claims PACER Overcharges for Records
“PACER, the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system used by federal courts, systematically overcharges for access to court records, users claim in a federal class action. Bryndon Fisher sued...
View ArticleHere’s the Problem With the Feds Profiting From Court Filings
“A class action lawsuit claims the federal courts are turning a profit by charging for court documents. Meanwhile, the website itself is stuck in the 1990s.” (via Wired)
View ArticleInternet Archive Offers to Host PACER Data
“On Tuesday, February 14, the U.S. Congress will hold the first hearings in over a decade examining the operation of the PACER system. The hearing will be before the Subcommittee on Courts,...
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