Updated Supreme Court Case Dates and The First Release of Early SCOTUS Data...
A few years ago, the Library of Congress released a PDF that listed the exact dates that the early Supreme Court Cases were decided. Since the written record only contained the month and year of the...
View ArticleThe abolishment of the Emergency Court of Appeals (April 18, 1962)
One of the coming features at CourtListener is an API for the law. Part of that feature is going to be some basic information about the courts themselves, so I spent some time over the weekend...
View ArticleNew formats for dump files
As mentioned in a previous post, we are currently making some changes to our back end to allow better citation meta data and searching granularity. As part of these changes, we have made two small...
View ArticleA few small API changes
We’re updating our code in a number of ways today and that is resulting in a number of changes to the format of our data dumps. If you use them in an automated fashion, please note the following...
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Free Law Project Adds More than 1.5M Opinions to its Collection Thanks to...
For Immediate Release — Berkeley, CA After many years of collecting and curating data, today CourtListener crossed some incredible boundaries. Thanks to a generous data donation from Lawbox LLC, our...
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Free Law Project Unveils API for Court Opinions
Today marks another big day for the Free Law Project. We’re happy to share that we’ve created the first ever API for U.S. Legal Opinions. An API — or Application Programming Interface — is a way for...
View ArticleCourtListner’s REST API Featured on Programmable Web
Yesterday Mark Boyd published a great story about the CourtListener API on Programmable Web. Mark talked to several of the API’s early adopters and really learned what the issues are and how people are...
View ArticleAnnouncing Oral Arguments on CourtListener
We’re very excited to announce that CourtListener is currently in the process of rolling out support for Oral Argument audio. This is a feature that we’ve wanted for at least four years — our name is...
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CourtListener is Now Integrated with the Supreme Court Database
Earlier this week somebody on the Internet pinged us with some code and asked that we integrate the data from the Supreme Court Database (SCDB). Well, we’re happy to share that less than a week later...
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