Does the RECAP extension violate the PACER policies and procedures?

The PACER "policies and procedures" prohibit "any attempt to collect data from PACER in a manner which avoids billing."

That is absolutely not what RECAP does. PACER charges users for the documents they download from PACER. RECAP users pay for every document they download from PACER, just like any other user.

RECAP simply gives users a second option to easily share documents directly with one another, as they're permitted to do under copyright law.

When a user downloads a RECAP document, the document comes directly from our server; the process imposes no additional load on PACER's web servers.