TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 10, 2021

A U.S. Senate panel this week advanced a bipartisan bill that would overhaul the federal judiciary's PACER electronic court record system and make the downloading of filings free for the public, Courthouse News reports. The bill now goes to the full U.S. Senate for consideration. The judiciary, which previously estimated it received $142 million in PACER fees last year, says it remains "concerned" about how the service will be paid for under the legislation. Users now pay $0.10 per page with a cap of $3 per document (with transcripts excluded). Advocacy groups have long called for free use of the database.