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Google actually offered about 10 years ago not only to do that, but to pay the judiciary for the cost to get us the data, and to publish easily accessible conti
by DannyBee 8y ago
Google actually offered about 10 years ago not only to do that, but to pay the judiciary for the cost to get us the data, and to publish easily accessible continuously updated complete data dumps (IE so you download the xml for it all) .
PACER turned it down.
Mainly because they make hundreds of millions on it, and this would stop them from doing that.
(and since people seem to have crazy views - no, google did not expect to make any money by doing this)
- sthu11182 8y agoThat is unfortunate. It would have driven legal costs down on legal search costs. WestLaw/LexisNexis have their place with their headers, but most of the time I am looking for a nuanced fact pattern in unpublished cases.