Mailing List Archive: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

sean at donelan

Aug 26, 2022, 11:07 AM

Post #1 of 8 (346 views)

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.

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

amitchell at isipp

Aug 26, 2022, 11:34 AM

Post #2 of 8 (346 views)

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.

> On Aug 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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.

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

niels=nanog at bakker

Aug 26, 2022, 11:41 AM

Post #3 of 8 (346 views)

* 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.

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

sean at donelan

Aug 26, 2022, 12:49 PM

Post #4 of 8 (346 views)

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 :-)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, Anne Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
>
>> On Aug 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

richey.goldberg at gmail

Aug 26, 2022, 1:05 PM

Post #5 of 8 (346 views)

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

-richey.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 2:34 PM Anne Mitchell <amitchell@isipp.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> > On Aug 26, 2022, at 12:07 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

jeff at ocjtech

Aug 26, 2022, 7:45 PM

Post #6 of 8 (345 views)

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

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:07 PM Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>

--
Jeff Ollie
The majestik møøse is one of the mäni interesting furry animals in Sweden.

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

Aug 27, 2022, 4:24 AM

Post #7 of 8 (345 views)

> 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 ????

Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest [ In reply to ]

Aug 27, 2022, 7:38 PM

Post #8 of 8 (345 views)

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: https://free.law/recap

R's,
John