TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 17, 2021

The U.S. government has reached a tentative agreement to resolve a class action lawsuit brought by a group of nonprofits alleging the federal judiciary overcharged the public for access to court documents through its PACER system, Reuters reports. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, comes a little more than a year after the federal circuit upheld a ruling that the judiciary had improperly used PACER fees to cover some of its expenses.