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PacerPro: Now a Free Service to Search for Cases

The Paralegal Resource

PacerPro is an online interface for lawyers and legal professionals to search, save or share case documents and was launched in 2012. It has now been made a free service. PacerPro helps access the PACER system used in federal courts and then allows you to manage those documents. PACER is an acronym for Public Access to Court Electronic Records and allows its users to get docket and case details from the US district courts, bankruptcy courts and courts of appeals.

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The Apostrophe Fail

Paralegal Mentor

The Apostrophe Fail By Kathy Sieckman, PP, PLS, ACP I think the number one all time grammar fail is the apostrophe. It is not a punctuation mark for making words plural (more than one of something). Instead, it is a mark to show possession (ownership of something) or to show where letters are missing in a contraction (such as "don't"). There is a test that may make it a little easier to determine if something needs an apostrophe for possession: Look for the possible possessive phrase:– the man['

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House Approves Raising the Debt Limit

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In a development that would come as a relief for the Obama administration, the House of Representatives voted in favor of raising the government's borrowing limit unconditionally till March next year. The raising of the debt ceiling was a decision made by the speaker in what was a very close contest, with the result being 221-201. The victory came as a surprise in a house dominated by the Republicans.