Dockets for the following courts (previously removed) have been restored to the PACER system.

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Dockets for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California have not yet been restored. The PACER Web site indicates that "Work to restore access for the Central District of California Bankruptcy Court continues and electronic access should be available before the end of the year."

At the time of the dockets' removal, the AOC explained that the dockets were removed because the systems used by those courts were not compatible with the new NextGen system being implemented by PACER.

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"The Administrative Office is working to restore electronic access to these cases by converting the docket sheets in these cases to PDF format which will allow us to make them available in PACER. This process will be completed in the four appellate courts by the end of October.  We are also working to provide a similar solution for the dockets on the legacy system in the California Central bankruptcy court."

It's important to note that the statement refers only to restoring PDFs of the docket sheets for these courts/time frames and not the underlying documents from those cases. Addressing that issue in the same blog post, Sellers reportedly told the Washington Post that "the vast majority of the records consist of docket sheets rather than actual court documents."

On August 11, the AOC announced that select documents from five courts would no longer be available in the PACER Case Locator. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL),  Special Libraries Association (SLA) and individual law librarian bloggers have been vocal critics of the changes.

Previously, the Washington Post had reported that Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the  Judiciary Committee contacted the AOC, urging the courts to restore online access to the documents that had been removed.

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