courtlistener-mcp-server

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Tools

14 tools: 14 read-only, 0 change data, 0 high risk (delete, pay, send or run code).

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changes data

Creates, edits or sends something. Worth a person's approval the first time.

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Can delete, pay, send on your behalf or run code. Hard or impossible to undo.

Connecting costs an agent about 25,012 tokens of tool definitions and a 305 ms handshake.

• read-onlycourtlistener_search_opinionsFull-text search across 9M+ written US court opinions with field-level filtering. Returns opinion cluster summaries with case metadata, citations, matched text snippets, and the individual opinion variants filed in each case. Supports CourtListener field syntax (caseName:"roe v wade", court_id:sc...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_opinionFetch the full text and metadata for a single opinion cluster by cluster ID. A cluster groups all opinions filed in a case - majority, concurrence, dissent, and per curiam. Returns the cluster metadata (case name, court, citations, dates) plus every opinion variant with HTML and plain text. When ...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_citationsRetrieve the citation network for an opinion cluster. Supports two directions: "cited_by" (opinions that cite this one - measures precedential influence) and "citing" (opinions this one cites - reveals the authority chain relied on). This is the primary tool for tracing legal precedent chains. No...
• read-onlycourtlistener_lookup_citationResolve legal citations (e.g., "410 U.S. 113", "93 S. Ct. 705") to opinion cluster IDs and case metadata. Enables workflows that start from a known citation rather than a search query. CourtListener extracts every citation it finds in the submitted text, so passing a passage returns one entry per...
• read-onlycourtlistener_search_docketsSearch RECAP federal court dockets. Query terms match case name, docket number, party, and attorney names; filters narrow by party name, court, and filing date. RECAP is a crowd-sourced mirror of PACER (the federal court filing system) - coverage varies by court and date. Returns docket metadata ...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_docketFetch full docket metadata and entry list for a single federal case by docket ID. Returns all available docket entries with document availability status. Documents with is_available=true have a RECAP-stored copy; others require a PACER account. Obtain docket IDs from courtlistener_search_dockets ...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_partiesFetch all parties and attorneys of record for a RECAP federal docket by docket ID. Returns each party's name, role (Plaintiff, Defendant, Petitioner, Respondent, etc.), and their attorneys with contact information, scoped to this docket. Costs two upstream requests per call (parties + attorney lo...
• read-onlycourtlistener_search_judgesSearch judge/person records by name, appointing president, court, political affiliation, or demographic. Returns biographical data, current position, and appointment summary. Use courtlistener_get_judge for full appointment history and education records.
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_judgeFetch full biographical profile for a single judge: positions on record - judicial appointments across all courts plus non-judicial roles - education, political affiliations, and ABA ratings. The position list is paginated upstream and walked under a page bound; the response reports whether it wa...
• read-onlycourtlistener_lookup_courtsList courts with optional filtering by jurisdiction type, active/inactive status, and scraper coverage. Primarily used to discover court IDs for use in search and filter parameters across all other courtlistener tools. Defaults to the active bench - the courts CourtListener still scrapes; pass st...
• read-onlycourtlistener_search_oral_argumentsSearch appellate oral argument audio recordings - the largest public collection of oral argument audio. Returns recording metadata with two direct MP3 links per result (download_url at the originating court, local_path for CourtListener's durable copy), panel judge IDs, and transcript snippets wh...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_oral_argumentFetch the full detail record for a single oral argument audio recording by its ID (the audio_id from courtlistener_search_oral_arguments). Returns the case name, panel judge IDs, duration, MP3 download URL, linked docket, and the speech-to-text transcript when transcription has completed. A long ...
• read-onlycourtlistener_search_financial_disclosuresSearch federal judicial financial disclosure filings - the annual reports judges file on investments, gifts, debts, outside positions, and income. Filter by judge (person ID from courtlistener_search_judges) and/or filing year; the year filter is applied to the fetched page only (CourtListener ha...
• read-onlycourtlistener_get_financial_disclosureFetch a single judicial financial disclosure by ID with its parsed line-item rows - investments, debts, positions, reimbursements, non-investment and spouse income, agreements, and gifts. This is the itemized companion to courtlistener_search_financial_disclosures (which returns only category cou...

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