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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 21, 2022

U.S. lawmakers have cut a proposal that would have made the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free. The omission is a setback for advocates of the Open Courts Act, who had been pushing to get the stalled, bipartisan legislation attached to the omnibus spending measure. The funding bill does boosts overall spending on the judiciary by nearly 6% to $8.461 billion in fiscal year 2023. Reuters looks at what could be next for the proposal.