PlainSite


PlainSite is a US based website dedicated to legal data transparency advocacy developed in conjunction by Think Computer Corporation and the charitable organization Think Computer Foundation, all of which is owned and operated by Aaron Greenspan. PlainSite provides both free and paid access to legal documents and information about the US legal system on a variety of subjects and caselaw. The website previously collected legal documents via the Free Law Project's RECAP archive until the archive adopted a fee-based approach.

History and controversies

PlainSite archives extensive documentation of and has its own controversial involvements with litigious matters concerning Facebook, Tesla, and Elon Musk specifically. In particular, the site's republishing of unsealed documents regarding Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity was noted by multiple publications, as well as a published email exchange between Elon Musk and Greenspan regarding Randeep Hothi. Greenspan has disclosed his ownership of put options against Tesla's stock.
In 2012, PlainSite published a list of 2,000 suspected patent trolls assembled from records available via the United States Patent and Trademark Office's patents database. Later, a man convicted in 2013 of conspiring to commit mortgage fraud unsuccessfully attempted to delist PlainSite along with other legal as well government-controlled websites from Google's index for housing legal documents pertaining to him.

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