Dear Readers;

One of the main missions of this blog is to make the courts a better place for the attorneys and public.  We want free and open courts, we want to access court documents efficiently and for a reasonable cost.

Unfortunately, right now the cost is 25 to 50 cents per page or more, and you have to go to the court, click on a fairly complicated outdated system to pull up the very nice WYSIWYG system (for many people the system is fairly confounding, even the clerks who use it all the time don’t know how many zeros to put in before the court number and if you have to use P or CH or L in the middle, etc)

Pacer was implemented in 2000 in the federal courts and it is a very simple but efficient system.  Attorneys and others who sign up and pay 8 cents…