Mike from Free Law Project. PACER is run by the the federal judicial branch. FOIA doesn't apply to the judicial branch, so there's no opportunities there.
Mike here from Free Law Project. The rules are written by the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Courts, which is filled by a number of federal judges, who you'll note have lifetime appointments.
That said, we're working on legislation to fix this.
Mike from Free Law Project here. It's the terms that the judge grants the researcher. They could probably be violated and they might even be an illegal 1A restriction on speech, but none of that matters. No researcher in their right mind is going to violate the terms a judge grants them for their research.
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Mike from Free Law Project. PACER is run by the the federal judicial branch. FOIA doesn't apply to the judicial branch, so there's no opportunities there.
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Mike here from Free Law Project. The rules are written by the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Courts, which is filled by a number of federal judges, who you'll note have lifetime appointments. That said, we're working on legislation to fix this.
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Mike from Free Law Project here. It's the terms that the judge grants the researcher. They could probably be violated and they might even be an illegal 1A restriction on speech, but none of that matters. No researcher in their right mind is going to violate the terms a judge grants them for their research.