A recap.email user reported that a document added by recap.email was marked as sealed, although it is not sealed in PACER.
One condition for marking a document as sealed when adding it from recap.email is if the free-look document download fails when the pacer_magic_num is available.
In this case, the download failed because the URL https://ecf.mdb.uscourts.gov/doc1/0920?caseid=783601 required the de_seq_num and caseid parameters to work correctly, resulting in the required URL: https://ecf.mdb.uscourts.gov/doc1/0920?de_seq_num=57&caseid=783601.
So the solution is to pass the de_seq_num to the FreeOpinionReportdownload_pdf method when downloading using the pacer_magic_num and possibly for regular downloads as well (not magic number).
A recap.email user reported that a document added by recap.email was marked as sealed, although it is not sealed in PACER.
One condition for marking a document as sealed when adding it from recap.email is if the free-look document download fails when the
pacer_magic_num
is available.In this case, the download failed because the URL
https://ecf.mdb.uscourts.gov/doc1/0920?caseid=783601
required thede_seq_num
andcaseid
parameters to work correctly, resulting in the required URL:https://ecf.mdb.uscourts.gov/doc1/0920?de_seq_num=57&caseid=783601
.So the solution is to pass the
de_seq_num
to theFreeOpinionReport
download_pdf
method when downloading using thepacer_magic_num
and possibly for regular downloads as well (not magic number).