How often do you go on Pacer?

[music12]

i go on about once a week. i originally got the pacer account because i wasn't sure my lawyer had filed everything and i was afraid to ask... well, he did

i won't look more than once a week; the fear of finding something is so paralyzing for me that i just can't handle it more often than that. so when i don't go on pacer, i don't really think about it (though obviously it's occupying my subconcious).

[RackingJ]

how do you check just the date of last filing

When I do the query and it give us our names & info at the top of the page right under it has 'Date of Last Filing: 7/15/09' (or something close to that). If nothing new has been filed, then I don't need to view any actual documents so I don't get charged.

[tinfoilhat]

I also go at least twice a day. I just check the "date of last filing" so I don't have to pay anything.

However, I did a query on the trustee this morning and was charged 30 dollars. I didn't even click on anything, just ran the query. Pacer has never charged me for a query before, and usually notifies me if I'm going to click on something that costs more than a couple of dollars.

I'm feeling a little freaked out to use pacer now.

Same thing happened to me, I was charged $18 for something of no use to me.
I think to prevent this from happening you need to always put in your case number. I made the mistake of running a docket report, well, for everyones docket reports because I didn't put my case number in when I switched pages.
I read below that the maximum charged for 30 pages would be $2.40, and I know at this point there are not 30 pages in my case. Thought I had nothing to worry about. But it was my mistake by searching without my case number.

The previous schedule placed a cap on the eight cents per page charge for Internet access to data obtained electronically from the public records of individual cases in the courts, with a maximum $2.40, the equivalent of 30 pages, for electronic access to any single document. The amendment extends this cap to all case documents, including docket sheets and case-specific reports. The cap does not apply to name searches, reports that are not case-specific and transcripts of federal court proceedings.

[aces67]

So how do they know when to discharge you anyway? does a clerk have a list of 60 day people or what?

[music12]

So how do they know when to discharge you anyway? does a clerk have a list of 60 day people or what?

they probably have some type of program/system that tells the clerk which cases are ripe for discharge. or maybe the clerk just goes over them every day - most cases filed the same day would be scheduled for discharge the same day (because the 341 is usually the same day) so it's not so hard manually as well.

[kenshirley]

So how do they know when to discharge you anyway? does a clerk have a list of 60 day people or what?

When I had not had my discharge after some 66 days and I knew I was a straight forward case I called the court at the suggestion of someone on the forum.
I was told that my case would be closed within 7-10 days so they must have a schedule based on something.

[aces67]

I'm trying to wait until this Friday before I call. It's hard though! We're so happy to be at the finish line!