by billing by the number of bytes generated instead of by page count, and by overcounting the number of bytes. The case remains pending In April 2016, three non-profit organizations—the Alliance for Justice, the National Veterans Legal Services Program and the National Consumer Law Center—filed another class-action lawsuit, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the Administrative Office, alleging that the PACER fee structure did not conform to the E-Government Act of 2002, in that the fees were not only being used to maintain the system itself, but were being diverted to cover other costs of the federal courts, including courtroom audio systems and flat-screen televisions for jury use. In January 2017, judge Ellen Huvelle certified the class action. In March 2018, the judge ruled that the PACER fees were impermissibly used to cover unrelated costs; In August 2020, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment, remanding the case to the trial court to continue with the case.National Veterans Legal Services Program, et al. v. United States, nos. 2019-1081, 2019-1083, (Fed. Cir. Aug. 6, 2020). In November 2016, another putative class action relating to PACER was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiff there claims that PACER fails to provide its users with free access to "judicial opinions," in violation of PACER's contracts with its users as well as the E-Government Act of 2002. In September 2017, District Court Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. dismissed the case; the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal on June 15, 2020. Proposed fees reform legislation PACER reform proposals have been introduced in Congress since the 115th Congress. The 117th Congress saw the introduction of the Open Courts Act of 2021 (/), which would temporarily increase fees for entities who currently spend more than $25,000 a quarter on download fees in order to fund a transition to a system with free downloads. A Congressional Budget Office report estimated that the new system would cost about one-fifth the cost of PACER to operate, but their estimate for the total cost of setting up the system surprised at least one of the bill's sponsors. Previous unenacted bills include the Electronic Court Records Reform Act of 2018 (), introduced in the 115th Congress, and the Electronic Court Records Reform Act of 2019 (/) in the