The Washington Times: Bipartisan duo in House introduce bill to abolish fees for accessing federal court filings

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Lawmakers rekindled a bipartisan effort Wednesday to stop the federal government from selling access to public court filings, potentially eliminating lucrative fees otherwise putting millions of dollars annually in the country's coffers.

Sponsored by Reps. Doug Collins, Georgia Republican and Mike Quigley, Illinois Democrat, the Electronic Court Records Reform Act would abolish the paywall currently imposed on federal filings hosted on the government's online database – the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system more commonly called "PACER" — in addition to ordering improvements meant to make the system both more secure and easier to access.