The PACER Mess

[NikSam]

A public concern been raised after Pacer took down big amount of the court documents.

If Any of you are using PACER, i would recommend in public interests, to install the RECAP browser extension (for FireFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recap-195534/), for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recap/oiillickanjlaeghobeeknbddaonmjnc?hl=en-US))

with which you can automatically donate any document you retrieved from PACER to ARCHIVE.org (creators of wayback machine ) for historical preservation and to give free access to the same documents. And you can reduce your expenses too because RECAP will notify you if a document you are trying to retrieve is already available in Internet Archives.


An article about dangers of hiding historical court documents by PACER: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/right-know-pacer-mess-and-how-clean-it


P.S. Donated court documents can be retrieved at http://archive.recapthelaw.org/

[Whip]

http://motoburg.com/images/amc-pacer-x-01.jpg


Yeah........it wasn't one of America's finest creations.

[NikSam]

UPDATE,

all RECAP cached docs and dockets you can search at: https://archive.org/details/usfederalcourts

shortcuts For actively discussed cases on here:

Trend Sound Bankruptcy (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.wawb.601005) (related: 2 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.wawb.603270) and 3 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.wawb.603271) )

Telexfree bankruptcy (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.mab.448177) (related: 2 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.mad.160080) and 3 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nvb.334803))

Zeek rewards (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.ncwd.68340) (related: 2 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.ncwd.74374))

Liberty Reserve (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nysd.412081) (related: 2 (https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nysd.412582))

[NikSam]

liberty reserve case is a mess,
because for each defendant pacer listed it as a separate case, so all docs are duplicated in each case, but
people retrieve and cache them from different cases.

Here is another one, i think with most complete docket:
https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nysd.412417