A few points, as a frequent user of PACER: 1. If you charge $15.00 in a quarter, it's free. If you charge $15.10 you owe $15.10. In other words, you don't ge

A few points, as a frequent user of PACER: 1. If you charge $15.00 in a quarter, it's free. If you charge $15.10 you owe $15.10. In other words, you don't get a $15 credit if you go over $15. 2. It's actually potentially more than 150 pages, as PACER caps the cost per document at something like $3.00, I think. So one could download five 200 page documents for $15. 3. The PACER system has become a slush fund for the judiciary. It has run huge surpluses (on the order of tens of millions of dollars) for years, even as the cost per page has increased from $0.08 to $0.10. Keep in mind that participants in lawsuits pay non-trivial filing fees for the privilege and that electronic filing has drastically reduced the cost of shuffling paper in courts. 4. Some state courts do make their documents more free than PACER by a long shot. FL and WI are good examples. Some are far worse (UT, which charges $30/month just to search!). 5. The worst part of the PACER system is that it's heavily federated--searching across courts for documents containing particular keywords is essentially impossible. One has to consult a nightly index of cases assembled from each local court's database. The money isn't even being spent to improve the system.