RECAP Project — Turning PACER Around Since 2009
RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox and Chrome that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts.
If you use PACER, install RECAP. Once installed, every docket or PDF you purchase on PACER will be added to the RECAP Archive. Anything somebody else has added to the archive will be available to you for free — right in PACER itself. ...
The Archives and APIs
Thanks to our users and our data consulting projects, the RECAP Archive contains tens of millions of PACER documents, including every free opinion in PACER. Everything in the archive is fully searchable, including millions of pages that were originally scanned PDFs.
Everything that is in the RECAP Archive is also regularly uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it has a lasting home. This amounts to thousands of liberated documents daily. ...
Sep 20, 2020
The RECAP Project
Thousands of Social Security cases end up being appealed to the federal courts every year. One annoying aspect of practicing in the federal courts is the costs charged for the PACER system. It's the system for online access to court records. With PACER you often have to pay to get access to public records. My gut feeling is that this is wrong.
Recently, I've discovered a worthy project to try to alleviate the PACER monopoly at least a little and Social Security attorneys can participate:
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3 comments:
clients have been complaining for years that the decisions were searchable. this only makes that worse.
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Interesting. We always warn our clients in advance that will be the case, when explaining to them the court process. Never had one object.
There is a mountain of PII for 1000s of GBO ODAR claimants in an EEO case in the MDNC, and SSA refuses to rectify the problem. Anyone can go on PACER and mine those claimants' PII.
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