Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) Reviews 9

TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Company details

  1. Legal Services
  2. Notary Public
  3. Paralegal Services Provider

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The Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for fee-based, electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.


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2.1

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TrustScore 2 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

4hr delay on email verification code…

4hr delay on email verification code that expires after 15 min so I’ve been 3 days now trying to use the system and I can’t until the email is verified. You would think a government website would have a decent IT department that could easily fix this issue.

10 April 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

SCAM

I signed up for an account with CC only to be sent a message that my account was "invalid". Why!? Then was told to call the 1-800 #. After waiting on hold for over "120 mins" over 1 hour...they hung up! Done! I sent an email telling them to close my acct. SCAM! Do not get involved with this company!

6 November 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

For free access you pay a flat fee for…

For free access you pay a flat fee for any link you want to open. $5.50. I paid to view the docket for a case in which I was hoping to verify one of the parties and their identity related to another case. It literally showed the exact same information from the original case link only in plain text. You. Have to pay. For each link you want to open, so I stopped there because it obviously was just a. Rabbit hole of continuous links providing the same information. That’s straight up SCAM behavior!

23 October 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Money Grabbing SCAM

Waited for over an hour for a customer service representative. Call was disconnected with no explanation. Called back and was disconnected again after waiting 45 minutes.

11 August 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Antiquated! Just like most of our government.

I tried to log into PACER using the credentials I have used for years. I received a message explaining that my account was inactive and directing me to contact PACER. I called the phone number provided in the message and waited for 45 minutes. Then, I received a recorded message that PACER customer service was unavailable and the call was disconnected.

11 August 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Hung up

Like other users, my account was deactivated (which for some reason they do if it is not used for some time). You then need to call to reactivate it, and wait for 30 minutes to speak to a representative. After the 30 minute wait, the representative hangs up on you immediately.

7 April 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

$57 to refresh in 5 minutes

I signed up, searched for the docket for the case i wanted, it wasn't all there, refreshed 19 times trying to see entire docket, was charged $3 for each refresh. TOTAL of $57 to not get what i wanted in 5 minutes.

15 October 2021
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is the most evil and disgusting…

This is the most evil and disgusting company of any government entity in the world.
1) Pacer and their counterpart ECF/EM are run by the most incompetent human beings. All of them should be fired.
2) I waited over 30 minutes to talk to customer service and the cowards disconnected my call
3) It's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to understand this new Pacer website and logging in.
4) Again every single person at Pacer should be fired. They are incompetent, lazy, and utterly worthless.

5 August 2021
Unprompted review

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