Oscar and I mentioned this in our Christmas Eve edition of the ELI Video Update. I am officially making the recommendation that Friends of ELI sign up for their own free account to get access to PACER.
I am making the request for two reasons: 1.) it allows the members of ELI community more direct access to court documents 2.) more members can search and extract valuable documents than Oscar and I can possibly think of.
Downloaded PACER documents can generally be posted anywhere for reporting and sharing purposes without concern because they are in the public domain.
To quote
http://pacer.gov:
"Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator via the Internet. PACER is provided by the federal Judiciary in keeping with its commitment to providing public access to court information via a centralized service."
It costs nothing to sign up but it allows you access to the world of federal court documents.
To quote Pacer.gov regarding costs AFTER signing up the account:
"Access to court documents costs $0.08 per page. The cost to access a single document is capped at $2.40, the equivalent of 30 pages. The cap does not apply to name searches, reports that are not case-specific and transcripts of federal court proceedings.
By Judicial Conference policy, if your usage does not exceed $10 in a quarter, fees for that quarter are waived, effectively making the service free for most users."
If there are relevant documents important to the ELI community (such as the HAN lawsuits), we would be willing and able to upload them to our official account in Scribd.com.
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