The complaint covers at least two (areas):<p>1. PACER end-user pricing is above the cost of providing the service.<p>2. There are regulations in place which prevent or impede companies from being represented by themselves (or, I guess, their officers/employees?) in court, thus giving lawyers a monopoly.<p>The American Bar Association is listed as a defendant in the suit.<p>@thinkcomp I'm curious what outcome you are hoping for, and how high the chance you think achieving that is?
PACER pricing is ridiculous. From their FAQ:<p>------- begin quote -------<p>PACER charges $0.10 per page retrieved. This applies to both the pages of search results and the pages of documents you retrieve.<p>The charge for any single document is capped at $3.00, the equivalent of 30 pages. The cap does not apply to name searches, reports that are not case-specific, and transcripts of federal court proceedings.<p>If you accrue a total of less than $15.00 worth of charges in any given quarter, fees are waived for that quarter.<p>------- end quote -------<p>I can understand charging for document pages, but for search results pages?
The tag [Aaron Swartz], and Exhibit B, feel incompatible with the footer: "Please do not bulk download information from this web site without prior permission."
I give Aaron a hard time (on the payments stuff) but I do appreciate that he generally has positive intent and deploys his cash and know-how in attempts to improve things.