U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web sites getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)...

its nice to see government web sites still get overloaded several decades later.

"PACER Service Under Fire After Trump Affidavit Crash Reports"

PACER is the electronic document system used by the U.S. Court System.

For anyone wanting the document and unable to get it through Pacer, we have it locally and I'm happy to make it available, just let me know.

* amitchell@isipp.com (Anne Mitchell) [Fri 26 Aug 2022, 20:36 CEST]:

For anyone wanting the document and unable to get it through Pacer, we have it locally and I'm happy to make it available, just let me know.

By now it's so widely available that even DuckDuckGo can find it for you.

Not readers of The Guardian, though; the newspaper posted a brief update on their website that read "The affidavit is now out. It is here." and linked to https://file///Users/Shared/Internet%20Downloads/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.102.1_1.pdf . (It's still there as I write this.)

  -- Niels.

PACER Gave me something to do, while waiting on hold for Disney Reservations making family vacation plans for next year, listening to Disney music on a loop :slight_smile:

You can reproduce the document by taking a blank sheet of paper and a fat sharpie and coloring it black. :).

-richey.

and linked to https://file///Users/Shared/Internet%20Downloads/gov.uscourts.flsd.617854.102.1_1.pdf . (It's still there as I write this.)

Doubt that link is going to work for anyone :crazy_face:

Anyone that regularly uses PACER should absolutely be using https://www.courtlistener.com/.

It appears that Jeffrey Ollie <jeff@ocjtech.us> said:

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Anyone that regularly uses PACER should absolutely be using
https://www.courtlistener.com/.

And the RECAP browser plugin, which both looks in courtlistener
for you, and uploads copies to it when you do a PACER download.
(The actual documents are public, only the downloading costs money.)

Start here: RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009 | Free Law Project | Making the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

R's,
John