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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Courts - changes in store for PACER?

The Blog of Legal Times reports this afternoon:

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts announced Monday that they are beginning a year-long “comprehensive program assessment” of the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system, the 21-year-old Web portal for perusing federal court documents. The office is asking users for input, and say everything about the system is up for discussion — including whether it should continue to charge for its services.

“All aspects of PACER are in bounds if users want to discuss them,” said Administrative Office spokesman Richard Carelli.

Recall this ILB entry from March 1, linking to Senator's Lieberman's letter to the judge chairing the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedures of the Judicial Conference of the United States.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 26, 2009 02:58 PM
Posted to Courts in general