#LegalHack PACER

Join DC Legal Hackers and Georgetown Law's Cyberlaw Association in solving our national PACER problem.

PACER (http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/), aka Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is the online system for accessing U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. PACER requires a valid credit card and US taxpayer ID (amongst other things (https://www.pacer.gov/documents/pacermanual.pdf)) to use. PACER charges ~10 cents a page with a maximum of $3 per document. If a user incurs less than $15 in charges per quarter, the fee for that quarter is waived. Additional charges are levied for docket reports in HTML, audio files, and searches of the PACER Case Locator.

Learn about how these charges are technologically excessive, how charging for access to the law is constitutionally questionable, and what you can do today to help free PACER, with a very special line-up of speakers, including:

• Carl Malamud, author of "In re: The PACER System Memorandum of Law: A National Strategy of Litigation, Supplication, and Agitation" (https://yo.yourhonor.org/), a three-part campaign to the free the law, amongst other things (https://public.resource.org/).

• Steve Schultze, co-creator of RECAP The Law (https://www.recapthelaw.org/) (a free extension for Firefox and Chrome that improves the experience of using PACER, helping you archive law for the public good, save money, and keeping you organized), amongst other things (http://managingmiracles.blogspot.com/).

• Harlan Yu, co-creator of RECAP The Law (https://www.recapthelaw.org/), amongst other things (http://www.robinsonyu.com/).

• Timothy B. Lee, co-creator of RECAP The Law (https://www.recapthelaw.org/), amongst other things (http://timothyblee.com/about-me/).

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