Pacer Fees Are Going Up 20%. They Should Be Going Away

> I'm the director of Free Law Project. For the case mentioned in the article we actually did a full expert testimony figuring out roughly how much per page it'd cost to run PACER using AWS GovCloud and a handful of other assumptions. It was...half a ten thousandth of a penny per page, IIRC:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4214664/52/15/national-...

Court Records Should Be Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600946 - June 2026 (142 comments)

Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24085158 - August 2020 (149 comments)

Friendly reminder that if you create and maintain a PACER account, and use it to extract docs with RECAP [https://free.law/recap/], as long as you stay under $30 in spend per quarter, the requests are free: https://pacer.uscourts.gov/pacer-pricing-how-fees-work

Most wanted docs are at https://www.courtlistener.com/prayers/top/