Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)

E389986

electronic public access system federal judiciary information system online legal information service

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an online service of the U.S. federal judiciary that provides electronic public access to federal court case and docket information nationwide.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Disambiguation Statements Elicitation Referenced by

All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Public Access to Court Electronic Records	4
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) canonical	2
Public Access to Court Electronic Records system	1
https://pacer.uscourts.gov	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3806317 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
Context triple: [Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, usesSystem, Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)]

A. Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
B. LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
C. Hague eFiling
Hague eFiling is the online filing system that allows users to submit international design applications electronically under the Hague Agreement.
D. EDGAR
EDGAR is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s electronic filing system that provides public access to corporate financial and disclosure documents.
E. Federal Judicial Center
The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency of the U.S. federal courts, responsible for developing training programs and conducting studies to improve judicial administration.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
Target entity description: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an online service of the U.S. federal judiciary that provides electronic public access to federal court case and docket information nationwide.

A. Westlaw
Westlaw is a comprehensive online legal research service and database widely used by lawyers, judges, and scholars to access case law, statutes, regulations, and secondary legal materials.
B. LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a major legal research and information services provider offering extensive databases of case law, statutes, news, and business information to legal and professional users worldwide.
C. Hague eFiling
Hague eFiling is the online filing system that allows users to submit international design applications electronically under the Hague Agreement.
D. EDGAR
EDGAR is the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s electronic filing system that provides public access to corporate financial and disclosure documents.
E. Federal Judicial Center
The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency of the U.S. federal courts, responsible for developing training programs and conducting studies to improve judicial administration.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	electronic public access system ⓘ federal judiciary information system ⓘ online legal information service ⓘ
abbreviation	CM/ECF ⓘ PACER ⓘ
accessMode	electronic ⓘ online ⓘ web-based interface ⓘ
accessPolicy	public access with registration ⓘ
billingUnit	per page of data accessed ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
coversCourtType	U.S. Court of Federal Claims ⓘ linked to: United States Court of Federal Claims U.S. bankruptcy courts ⓘ U.S. courts of appeals ⓘ linked to: United States courts of appeals U.S. district courts ⓘ
dataType	appellate case records ⓘ bankruptcy case records ⓘ civil case records ⓘ criminal case records ⓘ
digitalTransformation	transition from dial-up to web-based system ⓘ
fullName	Public Access to Court Electronic Records ⓘ linked to: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
fundingModel	user fees ⓘ
governingBody	Judicial Conference of the United States ⓘ
hasAlternativeAccessProgram	PACER fee exemption for certain users ⓘ public access terminals in courthouses ⓘ
hasCriticism	barriers to public access ⓘ high user fees ⓘ limited free access ⓘ outdated user interface ⓘ
hasFeature	billing by usage ⓘ centralized authentication for multiple courts ⓘ download court documents ⓘ electronic payment system ⓘ search by case number ⓘ search by court ⓘ search by party name ⓘ view docket reports ⓘ
jurisdiction	federal courts of the United States ⓘ
launchDate	late 1980s ⓘ
operator	Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ⓘ linked to: Administrative Office of the United States Courts
partOf	United States federal judiciary ⓘ linked to: federal judiciary of the United States
providesAccessTo	documents filed in federal court cases ⓘ federal court case information ⓘ federal court docket information ⓘ
purpose	to facilitate remote access to court information ⓘ to improve transparency of the federal judiciary ⓘ to provide electronic public access to federal court records ⓘ
relatedTo	Case Management/Electronic Case Files ⓘ
requires	user registration ⓘ
subjectArea	judicial administration ⓘ law ⓘ public records ⓘ
usesDataFrom	Case Management/Electronic Case Files ⓘ
website	https://pacer.uscourts.gov ⓘ linked to: Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit → usesSystem → Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) ⓘ

Case Management/Electronic Case Files → integratedWith → Public Access to Court Electronic Records ⓘ