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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

They can be found by searching the U.S. government’s court documents access system, PACER. PACER charges only a nominal fee for search results, and is open to the public, providing at least some ...

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 ...

As Adam Liptak, the longtime Supreme Court correspondent for The Times, noted this week, Pacer’s fee structure is “preposterous.” Ruling against the government in the case, a Federal ...

Godfrey, who lived in Supply southwest of Wilmington, was charged March 20, 2024, according to pacer.gov. A plea agreement was filed May 22, 2024. He was sentenced to 190 months. According to a ...

If the RIAA can’t stop music sharing, the U.S. government is going to have an ... It sure is. The PACER site says “The information gathered from the PACER system is a matter of public record ...