{"id":21756,"date":"2014-09-05T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21756"},"modified":"2014-09-05T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T20:13:29","slug":"warning-from-brennan-center-about-federal-court-data-base-aka-pacer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21756","title":{"rendered":"Warning from Brennan Center about federal court data base, a\/k\/a PACER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Numerous Court Records Deleted from Database<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"The government-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service has deleted \u201cnumerous\u201d court documents, report Joe Miller and Kim Gittleson for BBC News.<\/a> An August 11 announcement on PACER.gov<\/a> explained that \u201carchitectural changes\u201d rendered case management systems for four judicial circuits and one district bankruptcy court \u201cincompatible with PACER,\u201d stating that \u201cthe judiciary is no longer able to provide electronic access to the closed cases on those systems.\u201d Case documents for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd, 7th, 11th, and Federal Circuits, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, are no longer accessible online if filed before dates ranging from 2001 to 2012, depending on the court. Included in those lost files are cases adjudicated by Justice Sotomayor, who served on the 2nd Circuit from 1998 to 2009. \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d said Carl Malamud, the founder of non-profit Public.Resource.Org. \u201cAn historical database is essential to the legal profession, and for that matter, to journalists or students.\u201d \u201cIt’s fundamental that justice is not done behind locked doors, but in public view,\u201d continued Malamud. Miller and Gittleson write that PACER \u201chas long faced criticism for its arcane structure, and for the fact that it charges for each record accessed.\u201d Miller and Gittleson note that hard copies of deleted case files remain available directly from the courts for a fee of $30, through a process they say \u201ccan take days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Warning from the Brennan Center that applies to my advice about doing research in Pacer, the federal court data base. Nice picture of the Supreme Court, though.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COURT TECHNOLOGY Numerous Court Records Deleted from Database The government-run Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service has deleted \u201cnumerous\u201d court documents, report Joe Miller and Kim Gittleson for BBC News. An August 11 announcement on PACER.gov explained that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[704,409],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-federal-court-data-base","tag-internet-investigation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t