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Coming Soon to a Computer Near You: More Free PACER Documents

By Eric Lipman

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Top o' the mornin' LBW readers. I thought it appropriate to start off St. Paddy's Day (no, it's not "St. Patty's Day") by bringing you all some news that might make you want to raise a glass. Or a coffee mug, whatever. Tony Mauro reports in The National Law Journal that the U.S. Judicial Conference voted yesterday to increase fourfold the number of free documents that members of the public will be able to retrieve from the federal courts' PACER system. Rather than a $10 per year limit on freebies (at $.08 per page), users will now be allowed to retrieve $10 worth of documents per quarter. While that change might not matter to many attorneys who are on PACER as often as a tween girl is on Facebook, the Conference estimates that 75 percent of users will now pay nothing for their yearly use. Sweet. The conference also voted to reduce the cost of digital recordings of proceedings, which are currently provided by certain district and bankruptcy courts under a pilot program, and to encourage additional courts to participate. While increasing free access is certainly a step in the right direction, Professor Mitchell H. Rubinstein of St. John's Law...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).