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Search RECAP/PACER dockets by full-text query, court, party, attorney, nature of suit and date
Price: 1 credit per 20 results
💡 AI Hint: Search federal court dockets from the RECAP archive (a free mirror of PACER) on CourtListener. Combine a full-text query with filters for court, case name, docket number, party name, attorney name, assigned or referred judge, nature of suit, cause of action, filing date range, document number, document-entry date range, and availability of free documents. Each result is a docket with case name, court, docket number, parties, attorneys, law firms, judges, nature of suit and matching docket documents.
Authorizations
API token from the dashboard
Headers
Body
Number of dockets to return
x >= 1Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds)
20 <= x <= 1500Full-text query over docket and document text
Court id(s) to filter by, space-separated
"cand"
Filter by case name
Filter by docket number
Filter by party name
Filter by attorney name
Filter by assigned judge name
Filter by referred judge name
Filter by nature of suit
Filter by cause of action
Only dockets filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Only dockets filed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Filter by a document number within the docket
"1"
Only dockets with a document entry filed on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Only dockets with a document entry filed on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Only cases with documents available for free download when true
Result ordering
score desc, dateFiled desc, dateFiled asc Response
Successful Response