August 19, 2009 One way to promote broader public access to the public record is to use RECAP to share documents with others. A complimentary approach is to tell the U.S. Courts directly what should change. Recently, Stanford Law Librarian Erika Wayne launched a petition to “Improve PACER,” which suggested several changes: Provide document authentication...
Michael Lissner January 31, 2013 I mentioned in my last post that we’ve added some new courts to the site. Today we’ve added the historical data for these courts that was available on their website. This amounts to about 1,500 new cases on CourtListener: 112 from November 2003 to today at the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. 764 from January 2000 to...
Michael Lissner February 28, 2013 We’re excited to announce today that we’ve added five new courts to our list that we support. Today we add the Supreme Courts for California Indiana West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming These are the first State courts that we support and over the next few days we’ll be adding more as the Juriscraper library supports...
Michael Lissner October 9, 2013 A goal of the Free Law Project is to make legal research easier and faster. One way we do that is to scrape court websites, downloading any opinions that they have, making them searchable and finding the citations relationships among them. For many jurisdictions, we download all the opinions they host, while at others we simply start...
Michael Lissner August 12, 2014 In 2010, we wrote our first scraper. It was a nasty affair that could do nothing more than download PDFs from a webpage — any webpage. Since that point, we’ve come a long way and today we’re extremely excited to announce that the Juriscraper library now supports every state court of last resort. In most states this is...
WASHINGTON, DC – Climate Leadership Council CEO Greg Bertelsen issued the following statement regarding Supreme Court’s decision on the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority: “Today’s Supreme Court decision limiting EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is a further reminder that Congress is decades late in charting a...
Michael Lissner February 20, 2017 Recently, as part of our routine business practices, we discovered what we believe is a major vulnerability in the PACER system of websites that we believe affects both the electronic case filing and public access portals. At this time, as part of a responsible disclosure process, we have notified the appropriate parties at The...