What it returns
Search US case law and federal court dockets from CourtListener, the Free Law Project's open legal archive.
Common uses
Litigation monitoring, legal research, due diligence on companies, and lead generation for legal services. Pay per case.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-court-cases/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
queries | list of strings | Keywords, phrases in quotes, or fielded queries like caseName:(apple) or party:"Tesla". |
searchType | string: opinions, dockets, newLawsuits | Opinions are written decisions; dockets are federal case filings. "New lawsuits" treats each query as a company or party name and returns newly filed federal cases (default: last 7 days). Default: "opinions". |
natureOfSuit | list of strings | Optional nature-of-suit codes or text, e.g. 850 (Securities/Commodities), 410 (Antitrust), 830 (Patent), 190 (Contract), Securities. Works without a query. |
courts | list of strings | CourtListener court IDs, e.g. scotus, ca9, cand, nysd, del. |
filedAfter | string | YYYY-MM-DD. |
filedBefore | string | YYYY-MM-DD. |
precedentialOnly | boolean | Only published (precedential) opinions. Default: false. |
sort | string: relevance, newest, oldest, cited | Order of results. Default: "relevance". |
maxResultsPerQuery | integer | Results to return for each query. Default: 100. |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/us-court-cases/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"queries": ["\"data breach\" class action"], "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.80 per 1,000 cases. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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