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Class Action Suit against PACER Overcharges Proceeds
PACER Class Action Advances By JUNE WILLIAMS Courthouse News Service (September 27, 2016). A federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a class action accusing the U.S. government of systematically overcharging for access to court records through its system PACER, short for Public Access to Court Electronic Records. Bryndon Fisher sued the United States for a […]
PACER and EDGAR
The PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) database of judicial opinions, pleadings, motions and other papers continues to present a vexing public access issue. Brian Brodie, at the online news site Quartz (whose audience is “business people in the new global economy”), provides a good review of the issues around the current state of […]
Archives.com Now Providing Access to Some U.S. Census Material and Pledges $5 Million for Future Digitization Projects
Archives.com properties include Fold3.com (formerly Footnote.com) and NewspaperArchive.com. Archives.com is owned by Inflection.com. From an Archives.com Blog Post: Today Archives.com, the web's most affordable and easy-to-use subscription-based family history site, announces the addition of the U.S. Federal Census, the single most valuable collection of U.S. historical records. The U.S. Census collections were made available by FamilySearch International, the world's largest genealogy organization, as part of a joint effort to introduce more records to family historians worldwide. In conjunction with the Census effort, Archives will also embark on a joint project with FamilySearch to digitize tens-of-millions of additional historical records, the majority of which are not currently online. Archives has pledged a minimum of five million dollars to this important project which will positively impact the entire community. [Clip] Archives has integrated the full set of U.S. Federal Population Census indexes from 1790 to 1930 consisting of over 500 million names along with 3 million images from census years 1850, 1870, and 1900. In the near future, the full set of census images will be accessible. Leading the effort is former FamilySearch veteran Anne Roach AG®, CGSM as Director of Content Development. Read the Complete Announcement See Also: Archives.com U.S. Census Info Page They currently provide access to approx. 54 million records and 10 million images. Fyi, a one year subscription to Archive.com costs $39.95. They offer a one-week free trial. See Also: For a Limited Time, 1940 U.S. Census Will Be Free on Ancestry.com Continue reading
PACER Removes Court Case Documents
August 27, 2014 / Leave a comment
On August 10, 2014, The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which runs PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) abruptly announced that a bunch of cases would “no longer be available.” See below for a copy of the announcement and the cases covered. PACER makes court papers available (for a fee) as well as […]
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