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Federal Courts Spread FUD About RECAP

August 24, 2009

Update: The federal courts are just fine with attorneys using RECAP. They just want you to be careful about computer security in general.
Last week I wrote about RECAP, a Firefox extension that automatically uploads PACER documents to the free, public repository. Shortly afterward, the federal courts sent out an ominous warning full of FUD (Fear, [...]

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Liberate PACER Documents With RECAP Firefox Extension

August 14, 2009

U.S. courts insist on charging for access to electronic court documents. Ostensibly, this is because the clumsy PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) system is also overpriced—who would have guessed!?
Fortunately, many PACER documents are also online and available for free at public.resource.org, an ambitious effort to collect public records and provide the public with [...]

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