I tried looking up the case number in PACER (http://www.pacer.gov/) but when I went to register I saw that they charge 8 cents for every page returned, that is every page of a document clicked on as well as every page linked to in a search result. Transparency comes with a price tag these days I guess.

They're public documents, too.

But this is why the RECAP project exists - to jail-break the PACER documents you pay for: https://www.recapthelaw.org/

If it was prohibitively expensive for you to view (as it is for me), it's not really transparent, is it?

The Judicial Conference waives fees if they amount to less than $10 in a quarter, I believe. So you get 125 pages free. Be aware that search results do count as a page, though.