Pro Se Cases on Pacer

[UpsideDownMI]

Does anyone know of a good way to find pro se cases on pacer?

[justbroke]

The best way is to look at the Court Calendar (calendar). On the calendar, you can usually see who the debtor's attorney is, and that will usually read "Pro Se". There is no way in PACER to figure this out. Once you find the cases on the calendar, then you can look them up in PACER.

My question to you is... why look at pro se cases? I only looked at attorney filed cases and I concentrated on the "best" attorney(s) in the area!

[UpsideDownMI]

Thanks. I just wanted to find confirmed pro se cases in my district. Just curious.

[forgotten]

There actually is an obscure way, but i'm relectant to post it because unless you are at a court house that has free pacer access you are going to be charged a boatload.

It will return every pro se case *ever* filed in your district (at 8 cents per page, no page limit, and no warning of the number of pages). If you are going to make a trip somewhere has that has free pacer i'll PM it to you. Otherwise, do what justbroke suggested.

[UpsideDownMI]

Please let me know your obscure way of searching. I usually am at the court once a week and have free pacer access there.

[Dewey]

I'd like to know, too!

[forgotten]

fair enough... this works in my district, hopefully its the same everywhere.

Query - Use the "Type" dropdown and select "Attorney". For Last name enter "Se", First name "Pro". Also just try "Pro Se" under last name, leaving first name blank.

Once agian... it returns every filing every made by that attorney (or pro se in this case), with no date range. 8 cents per page, with no limit if you are not somewhere with free pacer.

[UpsideDownMI]

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn't work for my district.