Attention all PACER users
If you haven't already heard, there's a nifty Firefox extension out there called RECAP.

Say you're on PACER (the electronic document archive for the U.S. Federal courts). You want to pull a document, but you don't want to cough up the dime per page that PACER will charge you. What to do?

Well, RECAP has a free public archive of things that people have already downloaded off PACER. Of course, to give back, RECAP will upload any PACER documents that you yourself download to its own archive. The goal, eventually, is to have a large, free, database of public documents.

Overall, I think this is a great thing. Some people need to follow ongoing litgation on PACER, even if they're not a party to the litigation. Maybe they want to keep an eye on a case to advise their clients of the up-to-the-last-filing bleeding edge. Maybe they're students who want to see how complex litigation plays out in the federal courts, one filing at a time. Either way, RECAP's free archive will make available, gratis, filings in the more popular cases.