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Article about PACER

By Dallas Association of Law Librarians

You can't live with PACER, you can't live without PACER, it seems. The Ars Technica web site has posted an article that asks why PACER is still behind a "paywall" and not allowing free public dissemination of dockets and filings. It's an interesting view of the whole idea of paying for court records. The comments are pretty interesting too, with several bringing up online vendors trying to make searches easier, but at a steeper cost.

The case against PACER: tearing down the courts' paywall
US law says that federal court records are in the public domain. So why do the courts still lock most of their official documents behind a paywall? Ars investigates.
By Timothy B. Lee
Last updated April 8, 2009 11:30 PM CT

Full post as published by Lex Scripta on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).