📣 The Wait is Over! Semantic search is now available on CourtListener. Already live in our API, you can now search case law using natural language directly on the website. Click the & / ? toggle to switch between keyword and natural language search.

Learn more here!

Getting Help on CourtListener

The following help articles are currently available:

  1. Help with search and docket alerts

  2. Help with Pray and Pay project

  3. Help with @recap.email

  4. Help with advanced search parameters

  5. How search results are ranked

  6. Help with relative date queries

  7. Learn how to tag dockets and save notes

  8. Learn about RSS feeds

  9. Learn about our Podcasts

  10. Help formatting with Markdown

  11. Help with your donations

  12. Help deleting your account

About our Data

We've built some of the biggest open datasets in the world. Learn more about them:

  1. Coverage Homepage

  2. PACER Data Coverage

  3. Case Law Coverage

  4. Financial Disclosure Coverage

  5. Judge Coverage

  6. Oral Argument Recording Coverage

Developer Documentation

Our developer documentation — including REST APIs, bulk data, webhooks, MCP, and replication — has moved to our wiki.

Developer Documentation on the Wiki

Removing Content

We will not remove content from our systems absent a valid court order, but we will usually remove content from public search engines like Google, upon request.

Read our removal policy to learn more

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