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Making legal documents free
Programmers from Princeton, Harvard and the Internet Archive have produced a Firefox plug-in designed to make millions of pages of legal documents free, says Wired . RECAP , “rides along as one usually uses PACER,” but automatically checks if the document is already in its own database,” says the story, continuing: “The plug-in’s tagline, ‘Turning PACER around,’ alludes to the fact that its name comes from spelling PACER backwards. RECAP’s database is being seeded with millions of bankruptcy and Federal District Court documents, which have been donated, bought or gotten for free by open-government advocate Carl Malamud and fellow travelers such as Justia .
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