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PACER Docket
PACER federal court docket
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is the US federal courts' electronic filing system. Users can download case dockets as HTML pages, listing every filing, ruling, and order in chronological order. Paralegals, journalists, and legal researchers routinely scrape PACER dockets to build case timelines.
How to open a PACER Docket file
PACER itself (paid per-page); after download, any browser opens the HTML. Convert to CSV for spreadsheet analysis or merging multiple dockets.
Primary use
Legal research; case timeline analysis.
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