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I'm looking at a docket on CourtListener, and it seems like it has some of the documents for free while others cost money. What's the story there? Why are only some of the documents available? |
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Unfortunately, nearly everything in PACER costs money. We get a lot of documents from the sources listed in our coverage document, but if we can't get an item via one of the ways listed there, we don't have any way to get a particular document. There are upwards of 100k documents/day in federal courts alone, each of which costs around a dollar to buy, so if we wanted everything to be available, it'd probably cost around $100,000/day! Nobody has that kind of money. Eventually, we'd like to make it possible to buy these items from our website and to go get them on your behalf from PACER, but we haven't had the resources to build that feature just yet. |
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Unfortunately, nearly everything in PACER costs money. We get a lot of documents from the sources listed in our coverage document, but if we can't get an item via one of the ways listed there, we don't have any way to get a particular document. There are upwards of 100k documents/day in federal courts alone, each of which costs around a dollar to buy, so if we wanted everything to be available, it'd probably cost around $100,000/day! Nobody has that kind of money.
Eventually, we'd like to make it possible to buy these items from our website and to go get them on your behalf from PACER, but we haven't had the resources to build that feature just yet.