Another Lawsuit Filed over PACER Fees

Another lawsuit has been filed over PACER fees. From the suit: “Despite this express statutory limitation, PACER fees have twice been increased since the Act’s passage. This prompted the Act’s sponsor to reproach the AO for continuing to charge fees ‘well higher than the cost of dissemination’—’against the requirement of the E-Government Act’—rather than doing what the Act demands: ‘create a payment system that is used only to recover the direct cost of distributing documents via PACER.’ Instead of complying with the law, the AO has used excess PACER fees to cover the costs of unrelated projects—ranging from audio systems to flat screens for jurors—at the expense of public access.”