A Harvard Law student, Sydney Nelson, wrote a good piece for Harvard's Access to Justice Lab on why court data should be set free. Court records are scattered across court websites, often riddled with errors, and cost money to get at. PACER overcharged people by more than $190 million over six years, and the Open Courts Act, which would have fixed a lot of this, never got a vote. a2jlab.org/a-princess-in-the… I'd add that some folks have been making a real dent. @mlissner and @freelawproject built CourtListener, a free archive of court opinions and filings, and RECAP, which makes PACER documents free once somebody has paid for them. They're at more than 250 million pages of court data. free.law/ It's good to see a law student taking this up. It would be even better to see Harvard's A2J folks and Free Law Project working the problem together. Open law, whether it's court records or the published works of legal professionals, is how people get to justice. Maybe they are and maybe they can use the secondary law from legal professions The Library at LexBlog has to breath life into primary law. I should be reaching out.