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CourtListener (US case law)

US court opinions, dockets, citations, judges and oral arguments from the Free Law Project.

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About this source

Search opinions and dockets across federal and state courts, look up and resolve citations, and read opinion text. The largest free US case-law corpus.

Questions you can ask CourtListener

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Find the legislation and case law on a legal question, citing official identifiers.

What comes back: Acts and judgments with their official identifiers.

What the assistant can do with it

The 14 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • courtlistener_search_opinions

    Full-text search across 9M+ written US court opinions with field-level filtering.

  • courtlistener_get_opinion

    Fetch the full text and metadata for a single opinion cluster by cluster ID.

  • courtlistener_get_citations

    Retrieve the citation network for an opinion cluster.

  • courtlistener_lookup_citation

    Resolve legal citations (e.g., "410 U.S.

  • courtlistener_search_dockets

    Search RECAP federal court dockets.

  • courtlistener_get_docket

    Fetch full docket metadata and entry list for a single federal case by docket ID.

  • courtlistener_get_parties

    Fetch all parties and attorneys of record for a RECAP federal docket by docket ID.

  • courtlistener_search_judges

    Search judge/person records by name, appointing president, court, political affiliation, or demographic.

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  • courtlistener_get_judge

    Fetch full biographical profile for a single judge: positions on record - judicial appointments across all courts plus non-judicial roles - education, political affiliations, an...

  • courtlistener_lookup_courts

    List courts with optional filtering by jurisdiction type, active/inactive status, and scraper coverage.

  • courtlistener_search_oral_arguments

    Search appellate oral argument audio recordings - the largest public collection of oral argument audio.

  • courtlistener_get_oral_argument

    Fetch the full detail record for a single oral argument audio recording by its ID (the audio_id from courtlistener_search_oral_arguments).

  • courtlistener_search_financial_disclosures

    Search federal judicial financial disclosure filings - the annual reports judges file on investments, gifts, debts, outside positions, and income.

  • courtlistener_get_financial_disclosure

    Fetch a single judicial financial disclosure by ID with its parsed line-item rows - investments, debts, positions, reimbursements, non-investment and spouse income, agreements,...

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to CourtListener.

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