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  • 14 - Free PACER

  • from Part IV - Courts, Data, and Civil Justice
  • Edited by David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice
    Published online:
    02 February 2023
    Print publication:
    09 February 2023, pp 328-348
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    This chapter will argue that the federal court data paywall—PACER fees—unduly hinders the production of research on America’s federal courts. This effective limitation on public access to data leaves us with less access to better justice. Worse, there is little to no offsetting benefit. Although PACER fee revenue is often described as high, it is actually tiny as an economic matter. Congress can and should enact legislation that both mandates free public access to PACER’s vast array of information and replaces the associated fee revenue. That would allow the judiciary to continue its current operations and also allow appropriate research on federal courts.