Score one point for the government in the ongoing battle over how the federal judiciary charges users to access electronic court records.
The U.S. Department of Justice this week successfully knocked out one of three lawsuits challenging fees charged by the Public Access to Court Electronic Records, or PACER, system. Washington state resident Bryndon Fisher filed two lawsuits this year claiming that a computer glitch caused PACER to overcharge users. A federal district judge in Washington state dismissed one of those cases on Wednesday. The Justice Department filed papers the same day asking the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to dismiss Fisher’s other case.
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