WHAT'S NEW

Administrative Order No. 12-017 Regarding proposed amendments to Local Criminal Rules 9 and 49.10 and Local Civil Rule 5.7.

PACER Fee Increase to take effect April 1, 2012

An increase in the electronic public access (EPA) fee, from eight cents to 10 cents per page, will take effect on April 1, 2012.

In September 2011 the Judicial Conference of the United States authorized an increase in the federal judiciary's electronic public access fee in response to increasing costs for maintaining and enhancing the electronic public access system.

The change is needed to support and improve the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, and to develop and implement the next generation of the judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case Filing system.

The EPA fee has not been increased since 2005.  As mandated by Congress, the EPA program is funded entirely through user fees set by the Conference.

The Conference was mindful of the impact such an increase could have on other public entities and on public users accessing the system to obtain information on a particular case.  For this reason, local, state and federal government agencies will be exempted from the increase for three years.  Moreover, PACER users who do not accrue charges of more than $15 in a quarterly billing cycle would not be charged a fee.  (The current exemption is $10 per quarter.)  The expanded exemption means that 75 to 80 percent of all users will still pay no fee.

Procedures for Handling Motions for Sentencing Modifications Under 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(2) (Amendment 750)

Effective November 1, 2011, there is a new District Court Miscellaneous Fee Schedule.  Click here to see the new fee schedule.

Administrative Order No. 11-001 Regarding the revised Policy and Procedure re: Electronic Availability of Transcripts, effective January 3, 2011.

Preservation of Historic Cases.