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Remember that PACER is not intended as a site to research cases, which tends to be how many lawyers use it. It's meant as a site to organize electronically sub
by smackfu 14y ago
Remember that PACER is not intended as a site to research cases, which tends to be how many lawyers use it. It's meant as a site to organize electronically submitted court documents for the judges and the lawyers for a single case, instead of a paper file. The people involved in a case are going to be looking at all the documents for one case, and that is all nicely organized on one docket page. "Following a case from court to court" is not the intent of the system.
- sageikosa 14y agoCourt docket management software, not litigant case workflow. I would imagine each court has no incentive to play nice with other courts, since it would basically simplify the process for challenging their judgments. Also, a higher court can basically use the court-to-court impedance barrier as a low-level filter to reduce their workloads.