Whois & Analysis for pacermonitor.com

PACER (acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic public access service of United States federal court documents.

It allows users to obtain case and docket information from the United States district courts, United States courts of appeals, and United States bankruptcy courts.

The system is managed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in accordance with the policies of the Judicial Conference, headed by the Chief Justice of the United States.

As of 2013, it holds more than 500 million documents.

The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three co-equal branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.

Article III of the Constitution requires the establishment of a Supreme Court and permits the Congress to create other federal courts, and place limitations on their jurisdiction.

Article III federal judges are appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate to serve until they resign, are impeached and convicted, retire, or die.

A federal district is a type of administrative division of a federation, usually under the direct control of a federal government and organized with a single municipal body, much like city-states.

Federal districts often include capital districts, and they exist in states and countries worldwide.

United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution.

They function as units of the district courts and have subject-matter jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases.

The federal district courts have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all cases arising under the bankruptcy code, (see), and bankruptcy cases cannot be filed in state court.

Each of the 94 federal judicial districts handles bankruptcy matters.

The current system of bankruptcy courts was created by United States Congress in 1978, effective April 1, 1984.

A docket in the United States is the official summary of proceedings in a court of law.

In the United Kingdom in modern times it is an official document relating to delivery of something, with similar meanings to these two elsewhere.

In the late nineteenth century the term referred to the large folio books in which clerks recorded all filings and court proceedings for each case, although use has been documented since 1485.