August 06, 2020
A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday unanimously found the judiciary improperly spent almost $200 million in PACER system fees for unrelated court technology projects, affirming a 2018 D.C. federal district court ruling.
February 03, 2020
Two Federal Circuit judges hammered the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday for trying to halt a class action in which a lower court found the judiciary improperly spent almost $200 million in PACER system fees.
July 15, 2019
A certified class of PACER users has urged the Federal Circuit to find that the judiciary can review whether the government improperly spent more than $200 million it collected from fees, saying the government can't rebut their claims and has resorted to making a "novel" jurisdictional argument that has no weight.
April 18, 2019
The federal government urged the Federal Circuit on Thursday to vacate a district court judge's ruling in a certified class action that the judiciary has improperly spent more than $200 million in PACER system fees to fund other projects, in breach of federal law.
January 23, 2019
Seven retired federal judges, including ex-Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, told the Federal Circuit that the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system should be free, according to an amicus brief filed Wednesday in an appeal over a class action challenging the government's fees.