NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Extremist: Pacer should not charge user fees. It should be free and likely only needs tax funding. The fact that currently Pacer uses a Russian Roulette fee structure dependent on how many hits and therefore pages you pay for is insane. What if somebody searched USA v. ?

However, the paper also mentioned that “revenues generated from electronic public access fees” could fund the ECF. No legal justification for that idea was provided. In 1998 the AO changed PACER fees to $0.07 per page, raising significantly more revenue than was required to fund the program and using the excess to fund ECF and later other programs.

From 2010 to 2016 PACER fees have funded courtroom technology, web-based jury services, a state of Mississippi study, sending notices to creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and sending notices to law enforcement agencies under the Violent Crime Control Act. That’s clearly not what the original PACER law intended.

PACER fees collected by the judiciary went from $102.5 million in 2010 to $146.4 million in 2016, according to recent court filings. PACER revenue was under $20 million in 2001 (the first year PACER was available online) and has steadily increased each year despite the fact that data storage has become significantly cheaper over that time, from $65.37 in 1998 to store 1 GB of data to $0.028 in 2016 – a decrease of more than 99.9 percent! https://fixthecourt.com/freepacer/