U.S. agrees to $125 million class action settlement with PACER users Legislation to make PACER free remains pending Oct 11 - The U.S. government has agreed to pay $125 million to refund users of ...

Congressional Budget Office revises estimates for Open Courts Act Senate Judiciary Committee advanced bill in December 2021 (Reuters) - Making the federal judiciary's online court records system ...

“It’s true that the cost of running PACER has grown only slowly over time, but the profits have grown dramatically,” Schultze said last week at a Center for American Progress meeting to discuss ...

The plaintiffs argued that the courts were only allowed to charge the marginal cost of running PACER—which would be a fraction of the current fees. The government claimed that the law gave the ...

Attorney Margo S. Kirchner with the Wisconsin Justice Initiative Inc. and a member of the group said changes made to the public-facing PACER.gov website should make it easier for pro se litigants ...

As I wrote in a 2019 column, under the E-Government Act of 2002, the federal judiciary is only supposed to collect enough revenue from PACER users to cover the operating costs of maintaining the ...