8 ms·
Full Text Search of US Court records
- m348e912 1y agoI don't know how complete this database is. I couldn't find any hits on the Alec Balwin manslaughter case for shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Maybe it's not in the database because the case was dismissed by the presiding judge?
- boppo1 1y agoI feel like a rich, famous person probably has a lawyer/pr team to help scrub stuff.
- catlover76 1y agoWhere is this getting the docs from? It's a lot of work for FLP/Courtlistener to get stuff, and even they don't have 100% of records (not sure if this site is claiming to have 100%, it's unclear)
- TZubiri 1y agoProbably scraped and aggregated from the various state, municipal and federal courts directly.
- comex 1y agoAt least for federal courts, the records are available on PACER but they cost money. Who is paying?
- kopecs 1y agoProbably https://free.law/ https://free.law/ ETA: which is of course mentioned on the thread root. But RECAP users would be paying, in that case.
- ls612 1y agoAll court records are not copyrightable so once one person gets a document from PACER they are free to upload it to things like RECAP. Allegedly PACER is only allowed to charge enough to cover the infra costs of operating it, and has a pretty generous free tier nowadays so it’s mostly law firms that end up having to pay.
- qingcharles 1y agoThis. Each county pretty much has a unique system though, so it's a pain.
- ideashower 1y agoAssuming this is Federal Court and not States, right?
- wavemode 1y agoDoesn't seem to be Federal-only, or even only major crimes. Here is a result I found for misdemeanor failure to pay taxes in Alaska: https://www.judyrecords.com/record/1q894pg6bfe9 https://www.judyrecords.com/record/1q894pg6bfe9
- hammock 1y agoNo and it misses a lot like chancery court
- ww520 1y agoIncluding states and counties, I got my traffic ticket result at the county level.
- 6stringmerc 1y agoVery cool glad this site is still around after the fiasco with the company claiming a hack / breach when it was their own deployment revealing sealed case files.
- IG_Semmelweiss 1y agocan you elaborate ? how can sealed case files be exposed by a 3rd party index ?
- dreamcompiler 1y agoBecause they weren't sealed. There was no access control on the system. The vendor used obscure URLs claiming they made the system "secure." And we know how that story always plays out.
- IG_Semmelweiss 1y agothank you. That's shocking, and also, I feel almost dumb to ask. Its government contracting, and because you are right, that's how a story plays out.
- pvg 1y agoSome big Show HN threads a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150702
- kubb 1y ago4,577,166 cases for marijuana.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- morkalork 1y agoSmoking Marijuana can ruin your life. Why? Because the state will ruin it for you if they catch you with it!
- RKFADU_UOFCCLEL 1y agoWhat is your opinion about Addictive social media or porn? Sorry, had to.
- morkalork 1y agoYou don't need the government to ruin your life for you with those :)
- ranger_danger 1y agoThen why do you say it's necessary for smoking?
- morkalork 1y agoThe government doesn't go out of its way to throw people in prison for gooning or doom scrolling too much? But have one roach on you in the wrong state...
- cwmoore 1y agoReally is more about quality than quantity.
- hoten 1y agoI searched my name. It gave me a hit for someone (criminal trespass) in Texas, in a year I lived there, with my exact same height and ~same weight, and the arraignment date is my birthday. Wasn't me. Spooky!
- bfung 1y ago> Wasn’t me That’s what they all say XD j/k
- almosthere 1y agoWon't it be wonderful when some hiring SaaS integrates JudyRecords into their system!
- thelittleone 1y agoSleep walker per chance?
- m463 1y agoEntire search system is a long-con for a "clear your name" business.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- CobrastanJorji 1y agoIf that other guy is a from anywhere in Central or South America, I would not go back to Texas any time in the next four years.
- qingcharles 1y agoI just helped a guy get 14 crimes removed from his record that he didn't commit. Someone in Texas just continuously committed heinous crimes over a decade or more and they were all just added to this other guy's criminal record. They seemingly had the same first name/initial/last name (fairly common name). I'm assuming dude in Texas was allowed to commit a crime spree because every time he was pulled in front of the court it looked like he was a first time offender.
- TZubiri 1y agoVery nice. Can you do structured field queries? Like, all cases where defendant is X. And maybe where the cause is Y
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- breadchris 1y agowould love this even more if the search query ended up in the URL
- fancyswimtime 1y agothe search pattern implemented is strange; I'd guess to push certain users to using the api
- miltonlaxer 1y agoYeah we need to be able to pass query to share ?q=mysearch
- photonthug 1y agoI've searched for "sandwich murder" and did not find what I was looking for, but the way the elisions line up are sometimes pretty funny. I've also learned that Subway shops are among the most dangerous eateries and that bologna especially seems to make people irritable enough to open fire. A few highlights for your consideration, redacted to protect the innocent, guilty, or hungry bystanders - that the evidence that defendant fired the murder weapon during the sandwich - bologna sandwich found at the crime scene - presence in sandwich the morning of the murder - ways in which they could murder her mother. these included the sandwich ... sandwich incident could not be used - crime of capital murder. as a habitual offender, sentenced to life ... to the "bologna sandwich" constituted reversible error - coroner testified that victim had eaten a fish sandwich within 2 hours ... prior to his death - it was not first degree murder, and the court should have ... sandwich. he paid for the sandwich, but did not pay for the coffee - convicted of malice murder and possession of a ... sandwich - she was shot and that she had some change in one hand and a sandwich in the other ... sandwich in your hand kind of slow your progress down in getting a gun out of your ... sandwich
- xeromal 1y agoI grew up in a small town of 5000 in rural US and the first murder in the city that I remember was a guy who killed another guy in a subway. It was one of 2 that I remember in about 18 years
- frogpelt 1y agoThere are a lot of Subways and many times they are in strip malls and gas stations. That could be an explanation. Can’t explain the bologna part.
- sizzle 1y agoThe way they lay out their triangle cheese slices and skimp on toppings does it for me
- delichon 1y agoAs a free service, I wonder if the burden of complying with a right to be forgotten would be too much to sustain.
- _bin_ 1y agoAlmost certainly. Presumably why it’s not available to euros. Also would be a very strange to apply this so-called “right” when court records are essential to keeping organs of government accountable.
- carstenhag 1y agoRelatively sure this would be fine in some European countries. In Germany, afaik it's an ongoing question on whether there's a copyright on the records (especially from the lawyer texts). The names and so on are always censored anyhow, in some cases it's a bit obvious who did things though. If it's a lawsuit about a company and let's say it sells books online, maybe you can tell by 1-2 things what company it is. But for people, it's not so straight forward.
- miki123211 1y ago> The names and so on are always censored anyhow This is actually starting to become a problem because computers are getting too good at their job. Let's say a news site reports on a criminal trial of a John Smith, censored as John S. If John Smith was in any way famous before the trial and had an article written about him, that article is somewhat likely to appear in the "you may also like" sidebar when you're reading the censored one. Some news sites try to suppress this, but I'm not sure they're legally required to do so.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoim im EU and it is noy blocked here
- _bin_ 1y agoRight but it only covers American courts.
- the_arun 1y agoAre these not available in public search sites like Google?
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThey're nominally available on the PACER database for a fee that is waived for infrequent users. Queries from there can be archived by the RECAP extension to make the public records unencumbered.
- IG_Semmelweiss 1y agoCan you expand on this ? I searched the DB but it seems i couldnt get the actual docket unless i paid for a PACER sub. Is that right ? This is only an index, but to actually see the court docs, you have to pay someone ?
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoYou sign up with a CC. At the end of the month they will reverse any charges if you stay below some threshold for number of queries. You will get PDF links to the court filings related to each case.
- qingcharles 1y agoIf it's something you want, email me at my bio and I'll pull it from PACER. Otherwise, courtlistener has PACER docs that us users exfiltrate from PACER and upload for free.
- paustint 1y agoAll of the five searches I tried had Tennessee court documents as the top result, anyone else experience this?
- raegis 1y agoSame here. I lived there 30 years ago, and my one speeding ticket in TN shows up first. I've had 2 or 3 "rolling stop sign" tickets in CA and can not find them.
- ww520 1y agoSearch my name got the traffic infraction records, but none of the briefs and deposition I filed during discovery.
- nemobius 1y agoclassic
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- aaron695 1y ago[dead]
- IIAOPSW 1y agoI appreciate that "we both reached for the gun" and "he had it coming" both turn up more than a handful of hits. "and all that jazz".
- NoboruWataya 1y ago"I'd do it again" -> 740 million+ hits.
- cynicalpeace 1y agoI typed in my name and found my dad likes to drive around without a seat belt. He hates driving with a seat belt. Always has. I'm a Jr.
- almosthere 1y agoDidn't the guy that did this last time get in trouble
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- mikewarot 1y agoApparently it has Patent records as well... here's one of mine. https://www.judyrecords.com/record/qfwy5i5yb1e9 https://www.judyrecords.com/record/qfwy5i5yb1e9
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- jonsagara 1y agoSearching up family members is a dangerous game to play on a Friday night
- rightbyte 1y agoYe I don't think it is good that authority gossip get so accessable.
- legalthrow-999 1y ago[flagged]
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- dizhn 1y agoMy name is coming a bunch of times. They are all patents (?) citing something I wrote. What does this mean? Oh. article cited by patent applicant. I didn't know I inspired a bunch of Microsoft patents in the 2010s :D
- calderwoodra 1y agoWhat kind of database is this using and how is the search so performant?
- dygd 1y agoWas curious too and checked the API docs - it's Elasticsearch. The docs even show the index mapping. https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/26019452/2s93Y5PKmb#d8fb00a1-eeeb-412e-bc1b-b0839db63a03 https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/26019452/2s93Y5PKmb#d...
- rokob 1y agoI can’t find any of the times I’ve been in court. Not sure if good or bad.
- honestinquiryw 1y agoHow does one send a removal request if an EU citizen is listed in this directory?
- iancmceachern 1y agoI'm not am expert, but I don't think you can, these are public court records.
- victorbjorklund 1y agoYou cant be removed from the court case. But you can remove the website putting it online.
- iancmceachern 1y agoThe government puts it online, the website is just the search engine.
- RKFADU_UOFCCLEL 1y agoAh! But legal people think that all of the following are by and from and are the same person: - the domain - the owner of the website - the content displayed on the website
- iancmceachern 1y agoEven if the content is dynamically generated or regurgitated from elsewhere? And more to the point, to what end? If the info is public knowledge it's public knowledge, it's out there already.
- brudgers 1y agoIf it matters, ask your lawyer. If it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.
- herodotus 1y agoInteresting that it includes patents. (Found at least one of mine).
- sizzle 1y agoDon’t leave us hanging, what’s the nature of your patent??
- sizzle 1y agoCan someone help me with the filters? What’s the best way to search and filter/return only full case texts? I keep getting patents and stuff
- Minor49er 1y agoHow do I sort the listings? I want to sort by filing date but I don't see the option for sorting. I'm on Firefox Mobile