Designing CourtListener
Over the past week, I’ve been working to create scrapers for each of the 13 federal appeals courts. Last night I finally finished the last of them, so today I’m moving on to the design of the site....
View ArticleSite refresh and new features now live!
After many months of works and about 100 revisions to the code, today we’ve rolled out the latest version of the site. This version comes with some great enhancements: We rolled this out to our Twitter...
View ArticleOur Biggest Change Ever is Live!
After three months of hard development, I’m pleased to announce that the new version of CourtListener is going live at this very moment. In this version, we’ve completely rewritten vast swaths of the...
View ArticleOur New Jurisdiction Picker
Note: This is a technical post exploring and documenting the work that was done in order to build our new jurisdiction picker. If you’re not technically-inclined (or at least curious), you may want to...
View ArticleWant to Merge Millions of Legal Opinions? It Won’t Be Easy.
Note: This is the third in the series of posts explaining the work that we did to release the data donation from Lawbox LLC. This is a very technical post exploring and documenting the process we use...
View ArticleDetecting Judicial Corrections
One of the goals of the CourtListener platform is to enable others to analyze judicial opinions. To that end we provide all of our data as bulk downloads and try to archive any opinion that a court...
View ArticleNew Homepage and a CourtListener Revamp
We’re happy to share today that we’ve completed a revamp of the CourtListener website to make it more polished, easier to use and easier to learn. There are a handful of changes we’re really happy...
View ArticleUsing PACER: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
If you only watch one video about using the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system, make it this video by Free Law Project’s Brian Carver: “Using PACER: What Could Possibly Go...
View ArticleCheck Out CourtListener’s New Paint and Features
It’s really hard to overstate the incredible nature of the open source community, but if you head over to CourtListener, you’ll find that between yesterday and today the entire website has been...
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