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Obtaining Copies of Documents

There are several ways to obtain copies of documents:

  1.   Register for a PACER account (Public Access to Court Electronic Records). PACER allows registered users to obtain electronic case information from federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts. * 

  2.   Visit the clerk's office in Madison or Eau Claire:

    • Sit down at the secure public PACER computers and print out the documents. There is a charge per page printed.

    • Request the Clerk to search and print out the documents. There is a search fee and a charge per page printed.

  3.   Send a written request to the clerk's office to have the requested documents printed. There is a search fee and a charge per page printed.

Reproduction and search fees can be found on the Fee Schedule.

Payment methods for fees and other court costs are available here.  

For copies of documents in a case closed through 2003 (Eau Claire) or 2009 (Madison), refer to Archived Case Information.

* Effective with the implementation of Bankruptcy CM/ECF Release 4.1, and pursuant to a Privacy Policy amendment approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States, there is a restriction on PACER public access to certain documents. In any bankruptcy case that was filed prior to December 1, 2003, and which has been closed for more than one year, documents are no longer available to the general public via PACER.