No uploads for 5th Circuit since 2017?

[jgrisham]

(cross-posted from freelawproject/recap#299)

I've noticed that RECAP (Edge, Chrome, nor Firefox) has not been uploading dockets or case documents that I have purchased from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

• When searching the 'RECAP Archive' for that appeals jurisdiction at CourtListener, only 4 dockets appear for that entire jurisdiction for all of 2021 YTD!:
  • https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20desc&court=ca5#
• Limiting the search to 'only PDFs', the newest document is from 2017:
  • https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20desc&available_only=on&court=ca5
• In fact, this seems true for the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th circuits as well
  • https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20desc&available_only=on&court=ca2%20ca4%20ca5%20ca6%20ca8
• The 9th circuit doesn't show a new document for over a year
  • https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=&type=r&order_by=dateFiled%20desc&available_only=on&court=ca9

This issue is especially notable for 5th circuit docket 21-50949, United States v. Texas, as it is in the popular news right now:

• https://ecf.ca5.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servlet/TransportRoom?servlet=CaseSummary.jsp&caseNum=21-50949&incOrigDkt=Y&incDktEntries=Y
  All searches of the main CourtListener site to find that docket have failed.

Because there's nothing recent in the archive, I'm assuming there's nothing wrong with my specific configuration.

Is this a problem with:

1. the CourtListener database,
2. with RECAP itself or a change in the host web browsers,
3. the PACER redesign that happened a while back, or
4. something else?

If there is a hole in RECAP collection is more than a temporary (few days?) outage, we should probably add that to the docs somewhere, right?

• Jim