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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Find Free Federal Court Documents Using Recap

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | August 17, 2009 - 16:46

Recap is a free Firefox extension which:

  • Automatically uploads federal court documents you pull from PACER to a free public archive (PACER charges 8 cents a page to view documents, which can add up.)
  • When you are on PACER, identifies which documents in a particular docket are contained in the free archive. You may pull up the document from the free archive directly from the docket.
  • Creates more useful file names to the pdf documents from PACER. The file names identify the court, case and docket entry number.

The Recap website has a 2 minute movie that illustrates Recap's features.

The documents donated to the Pacer Recycling Center, available in giant files on their website, will be integrated into Recap, along with Pacer dockets from Justia's site.

There is no searchable free archive of documents on Recap, at least not yet. Recap explains that this is due to privacy concerns.

Recap is new and in its Beta phase, so you may experience some glitches. When I tried it, it appeared to take a while before the R icon appeared in the docket next to a document I pulled up. It is well worth trying and Recap encourages comments and suggestions.

For free dockets (but not documents), see our prior post regarding FreeCourtDockets.com.


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SBA Locker & Book Sale

Jessica Mathewson-Library Media Technical Asst.-jessica.mathewson@law.csuohio.edu | August 17, 2009 - 15:01

The SBA is holding its annual Locker & Book sale this week and next in the Student Organization offices in room 62.

Dates and times for this week are...

Wednesday, August 19th & Thursday, August 20th
Noon - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm

And next week...

Monday, August 24th & Tuesday, August 25th

Noon - 2pm and 4pm - 6pm

In addition to locker rentals and used books, check out the C-M Law gear...t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, hoodies and more.


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