One of our top requests lately is to develop an MCP server. This will allow you to seamlessly access our APIs from tools like ChatGPT and Claude. We're working on it and eager to hear your input: www.courtlistener.com/help/mcp/

Our director was on the Organized Money podcast talking about monopoly powers in the legal space. It's a great, wonky conversation about why legal research is so expensive, the barriers to fixing it — And how we're working to break them down! prospect.org/2026/01/30/o...

We’re experiencing extremely high pressure on our search engine. We’re working to find the cause.

We're rolling out a couple of changes today that should help support our mission without impacting many of our users. 1. In 2016, we launched a tool to make SCOTUS visualizations. We're deprecating it today. 2. We're making bulk data available quarterly instead of monthly. 1/6

The second and ninth circuits overhauled their websites again, so RECAP is not working there. We’re working on a fix, but reverse engineering takes time. Hopefully this week.

Our x-ray tool is featured on the Real Python podcast!

In September we shared that our new API had served one hundred million requests in about a year. Just hit 250 million. free.law/2025/09/29/o...

Apologies for the downtime we just experienced. We're still evaluating what happened, but first look seems to be that traffic to CourtListener doubled in a matter of seconds and overwhelmed our DB. Likely cause: Scrapers.

In case you missed it, our director's annual letter came out during the holidays. It's a good read and shows just how impactful your contributions can be. We're building a better legal system, one day at a time, and your support really helps! free.law/fundraiser/2...

This is such a great conference, a must attend for those working in access to justice tech. It's chock full of all the people who care, who are doing the things, and who want to collaborate and build a better legal system. Propose a session (due tomorrow) or plan to attend in October!

Anyone else have any connections at NASA to speak about that library being disposed of and if the internet archive can help find a home?

To usher in the new year, two of our main servers failed and did not get automatically replaced. We were down for about two hours, but we're back now. Apologies for the trouble and downtime. We're investigating the root cause.

HNY! We just released a new version of our high-performance, scalable cache for Django. Details here: www.reddit.com/r/freelawpro...

I do a lot with legal data, so as you can imagine I love this nonprofit! They can add to this list reporting for @nbcnews.com-owned stations. If anyone has a good tutorial for their new API, please send it, as I have yet use it much. Fantastic resource if you are interested in federal court data.

Reposting this for those that missed it last week. We hope you’ll check out what we accomplished and consider supporting our work.

NEW: One brought a gun home. One moved. Others improved home security. Life as a federal judge in the age of Trump: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Our annual director’s letter is out, and, well, it has been an incredible year. Please give it a read to learn about our growth, what we’ve accomplished, and what we hope to do next year. Thank you to all our supporters, big and small. free.law/fundraiser/2...

We’re making the legal system better with software, advocacy, and data. If you like that kind of thing, please consider a donation. It helps. free.law/donate

Again: As noted in my next skeet, The Free Law Project (which is also home to RECAP, Courtlistener, etc.) is one of a handful of tech nonprofits that have low-key become super important *in general* over the years, and perhaps especially this year.

Some of the stats in our director's letter are simply astounding. It'll be out early next week.

I've been following a pair of odd FOIA cases in D.D.C. brought by America First Legal. The cases argue that the Government Accountability Office (which is part of Congress) and the Judicial Conference and Administrative Office for the Courts (which are in the Judicial Branch) are subject to FOIA.

The judiciary's motion to dismiss America First Legal's FOIA case against the Judicial Conf. is GRANTED. Our take: yes, parts of the judiciary should absolutely be subject to FOIA. But this suit isn't the way to do it & Judge McFadden thankfully agreed: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We're proud to share that our data is now being used by HeinOnline in their incredible platform. 🎉 free.law/2025/12/10/h...

We’re proud this year to become a major source for many investigative journalists. Today’s example is a six-byline article in the NYT that references FLP as a major source. Data ➡️ Information ➡️ Reporting ➡️ Knowledge ➡️ Change. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

We put our founding date as our BlueSky birthday and got locked out of BlueSky last week during the heart of fundraising season. Our budget for next year is looking tight and we’re trimming our agenda. If you can help us with a donation, we will put it to truly good use! free.law/donate/

Our mostly-monthly newsletter just went out and it's a doozy: - Launch of Justice Initiatives - Three awards - Semantic search API is live - A podcast with @jessicafrank.bsky.social - An amicus brief we led - Fast keyword alerts for PACER Wowza. Sign up here: donate.free.law/np/clients/f...

Thrilled doesn't cover it: our new Justice Initiatives division just won an AWS Imagine Grant. I'm so excited to see the Litigant Portal come to life. Building on 30+ years of #legalaid and #court #a2jtech with cutting edge gen AI + @free.law's open data to help self-represented litigants.

Big week over here: Our new Justice Initiatives division has won an AWS Imagine Grant. This will help fund the creation of the Litigant Portal we're building, so that the justice system is more accessible to people without lawyers. 🎆 free.law/2025/12/03/a...

Remember the big class action about PACER fees being too high? Well, things take time and the appellate oral argument is now scheduled for January 7th: www.courtlistener.com/docket/68504...

Today is GivingTuesday! If CourtListener or Free Law Project has helped you research, track a case, or build something awesome — today’s the day to give back. Give back & share your story in a single step. donate.free.law/forms/giving... Your support keeps the law free, open & accessible Thank you

MuckRock doesn’t answer to advertisers or political interests. We don’t even have a paywall. Today is Giving Tuesday, the start of our most important fundraising season. If you believe in a more open, accountable democracy, we’re asking you to stand with us. www.muckrock.com/donate/

This is a massive step forward for us and a big expansion of our goals and mission. We’ve been studying these issues for years and now it’s time to execute. We’ve hired a team and built partnerships. It’s go time.

We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact. Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice. This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...

Fix the Court is 1 of the only, if not the only, org. working on: — Free PACER legislation — A judicial gift ban — Workplace conduct reform — Exposing *all* A3 judges' conflicts — Increasing court security funds If you appreciate our work, plz consider a Giving Tuesday gift fixthecourt.com/donate.

Looking for a Giving Tuesday non-profit? You can now support @suffolklitlab.org with individual donations. Please consider backing the work we do helping folks navigate the legal system¹ by making a small gift here: www.givecampus.com/campaigns/70... ____ ¹ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're looking for kind words from folks that like what we do. If that's you, please let us know your thoughts! donate.free.law/forms/cltest...

If you monitor case law for new decisions that may affect you, CourtListener's alert system just got a few minutes faster. Have a great day. www.courtlistener.com/help/alerts/...

The time before last, when PACER was hacked, it was because of a vulnerability in a product called SolarWinds. I guess they get a free pass for some reason. 🤷

We're happy to be contributing to open source with this library.

Proud to be a source for this one. hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

Lawyers working Uber to pay debts. Drug dealers being released without trial. Lawyers refusing cases. Indefinite detainment. Judges writing to Congress to beg for relief. The shutdown has ended, but your right to a fair trial remains in shambles. fortune.com/2025/11/15/c...

We launched a new API today for PACER data. You use the API to flag PACER documents you want. If we ever get those documents, we let you know via webhook or email. www.courtlistener.com/help/api/res...

If you haven't been following this closely, it's easy to miss. Court-appointed defense lawyers haven't been paid since JULY. It's gotten so bad that they're refusing new clients, leading to people being held in detention and 👇

The first benchmark of our new semantic search model is in, and we did quite well. Gemma gives us a run for our money at 3× our model size, but otherwise, the models beating ours are closed (which will cost a fortune at this scale), or huge (Qwen 8B is 80× bigger). www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The RECAP Archive now has basic metadata about every federal district and bankruptcy case in PACER, and will gather every new case within about five minutes. Search it all here: www.courtlistener.com/recap/

A thread by our Director about AI hallucinations.

We're experiencing some downtime that seems to be related to our search engine. We're investigating and will post to this thread as we learn more.

Today we're launching semantic search as an API. The legal technology space is booming, and this is one of the top requests we've heard from innovators. With this launch, new systems can provide powerful legal research without reinventing the search engine itself. 1/ free.law/2025/11/05/s...

We have a new page listing all our presentations and press. Let us know if you want us to speak! Some topics include: court modernization; legal tech, data, and AI; open courts, research, and court data; access to justice; journalism; and PACER reform! free.law/presentations

We're planning the first Free Law Projec retreat, and we're looking for a facilitator that can join and guide us in Mexico City. Want to be that person? Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1MbI3...