Some recent reviews of the RECAP extension are incredibly kind — thank you! If you haven't tried RECAP and you know what PACER is, give it a shot. It takes 1 minute to install, literally, and then you'll save money while helping others. free.law/recap/

Our membership promo ends on Thursday. If you haven’t tried our AI connector yet, we really think you’ll like it! Start here and give it a minute, even (especially) if you’re an AI skeptic: free.law/2026/07/07/d...

For 30 Days, We're Doubling Free and Member Access to Our AI Connector

The law belongs to everyone, and our mission is to help people understand it. For 30 days, we're doubling the power of CourtListener's AI legal research tools for members and non-members alike, so mor...

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The court’s ECF is forthcoming and will be free according to the judge so free pacer is possible. Next hearing will decide whether they can continue to detain the defendant (or respondent in this case) while proceedings continue. That hearing is not set but will likely happen sometime next week

Just got out of the first hearing for the alien terrorist removal court. A few quick takeaways: They’re clearly building the court as the go. DOJ, defense, and judge were thumbing through statute to answer basic questions like discovery and detention 1/2

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There are ten days left in our memberships promo. If you haven't seen what happens when you combine Claude with CourtListener, it's worth giving a try. It is changing the way folks do law: free.law/2026/07/07/d...

For 30 Days, We're Doubling Free and Member Access to Our AI Connector

The law belongs to everyone, and our mission is to help people understand it. For 30 days, we're doubling the power of CourtListener's AI legal research tools for members and non-members alike, so mor...

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A court is born.

Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · last wk.

“For this piece, we spoke with half a dozen legal experts and attorneys, reviewed far too many academic journals and law briefs, and almost convinced a judge on the court to talk to us about process.” Our Sunday deep dive on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

We've updated CourtListener's privacy policy to make it more detailed and to provide a bit of a tune up. The new version is now live on our wiki: wiki.free.law/c/terms/cour...

We’re continuing to work this story. Some additional details we’ve received about the nature of the court. A thread. 🧵

Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · 3w ago

A 30 year old court just got its first case. A Friday night scoop on the Alien Terrorist Removal Court’s only docket. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

We continue to be advocates for bringing FOIA to the federal judiciary, and we're thrilled to support @schiff.senate.gov's push to make that happen. 1/2 www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-r...

Woah.

Seamus Hughes@seamushughes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

At Court Watch, we're objectively very good at finding the seemingly unfindable in the U.S. Court system. Today we're introducing The Research Desk. A one-stop shop for training, monitoring of dockets, and customized research on federal court cases www.courtwatch.news/p/introducin...

Introducing ‘The Research Desk’

A one-stop shop for training, monitoring of dockets, and customized research on federal court cases.

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The power of APIs! Browse the law.

Mike Lissner@michaeljaylissner.com · 3w ago

Somebody made a tool for mounting a CourtListener case as a folder in Windows: github.com/garycal/cour...

Re-upping this from yesterday. If you haven't tried connecting Claude to CourtListener it's really an incredible combination.

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 4w ago

We're in awe of the incredible impact our new AI connector is making for regular people with regular legal needs. To encourage more people to check it out, we're doubling access to it for the next 30 days. Whoever you are, this tool makes legal research easier than ever. free.law/2026/07/07/d...

We're in awe of the incredible impact our new AI connector is making for regular people with regular legal needs. To encourage more people to check it out, we're doubling access to it for the next 30 days. Whoever you are, this tool makes legal research easier than ever. free.law/2026/07/07/d...

For 30 Days, We're Doubling Free and Member Access to Our AI Connector

The law belongs to everyone, and our mission is to help people understand it. For 30 days, we're doubling the power of CourtListener's AI legal research tools for members and non-members alike, so mor...

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Our co-founder and director, @michaeljaylissner.com and our AI developer, Nathan Dahlberg sat down with @bobambrogi.bsky.social for his podcast. They talked about the effort to bring good, solid legal research to everyone — not just lawyers. Everyone: www.lawnext.com/2026/07/on-l...

On LawNext: Legal Research for Everyone: Inside the CourtListener-Claude Partnership

Last month, when Anthropic, developer of the popular AI assistant Claude, announced a major push into legal, much of the coverage in the media and the buzz on social media focused on what the announce...

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Thank you.

Paul Alan Levy@paulalanlevy.bsky.social · last mo.

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS. Thank you @joepatrice.bsky.social for this great piece. abovethelaw.com/2026/06/thos...

Those 'WL' Citations Are An Open Invitation To AI Hallucinations - Above the Law

Those proprietary citations carry risks for the publishers.

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The Supreme Court’s “mushrooming” police force is reason ten zillion why we need J-FOIA. Right now, there’s no FOIA for the judiciary, so we have almost no idea what’s going on inside the branch.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW in @politico.com Magazine: It's often said that the Supreme Court lacks its own army. Well, that may be changing. The force protecting #SCOTUS is mushrooming. Now, some in Congress are demanding justices testify-for 1st time in 7 years-on where the $ goes www.politico.com/news/magazin...

In contrast, 18F built the US Tax Court a case management system for about $1.5m/year bsky.app/profile/rand...

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · last mo.

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

Court records belong to the public. PACER's paywall puts a price on public access. The Open Courts Act would modernize federal court records and eliminate PACER fees. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Court Records Should Be Free

Court records belong to the public. Yet anyone seeking access to federal court filings through PACER, a government software system that stands for Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is

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Here’s the way to price this: a scrum team of ~8 people is $2 million a year, at federal contracting rates. So that’s 62 scrum teams per year. As anybody from the software development world knows, that is absurd.

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · last mo.

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

CourtListener memberships are now free for Legal Services Organizations. This brings our new and wildly powerful AI integration and our best-in-class alert systems to those who need them most: free.law/2026/06/23/l...

Free Law Project Now Offers Free Group Memberships for Legal Services Organizations

Legal aid attorneys deserve the same powerful research tools as the most well-resourced firms in the country. Free Law Project is making that possible with a new free group membership tier for nonprof...

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We're proud to endorse the Open Meetings Act introduced today by @hankjohnson.house.gov and @hirono.senate.gov. It will finally make judicial policymaking open to the public. Transparency is a keystone to legitimacy. Let's open the doors. hankjohnson.house.gov/media-center...

Congressman Johnson, Sen. Hirono Push Judiciary To Be More Open, Accountable

Courts Subcommittee Ranking Member Introduces Open Meetings Act to Bring More Transparency to Judicial Conference WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-04), Ranking Member of the House Judic...

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OK, who wants to be the archivist for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco? They're hiring and they have truly huge and interesting archives! Let's get a free law person in there! ca9-employment.breezy.hr/p/a164d6f4c5b1

Branch Librarian and Archives Coordinator at U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

$89,488 - $145,507 (CL 28) San Francisco, CA Position Overview The Ninth Circuit Court Libraries are currently accepting applications for the position of Branch Librarian and Archives Coordinator at o...

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We’re a proud signatory to this letter. Make PACER free and secure.

Fix the Court@fixthecourt.com · 2mo ago

NEW: Two dozen good-government groups urge Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley & Ranking Member @durbin.senate.gov to mark up the Kennedy / @wyden.senate.gov "free PACER" bill before August recess, as they did 2 Congresses ago fixthecourt.com/wp-content/u....

@lawfaremedia.org has a fantastic new tool for legal research that builds on the CourtListener database. You start with a keyword search, then you ask a question about the result set using AI to filter the results further. It's really neat and quite powerful! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/intr...

Introducing RAGtime

A Lawfare research platform now available in beta

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Why does this matter? Well, legislatures make laws, and case law is how you understand them. Until this finishes, there's no way to understand the laws we live by. So we are scanning millions of pages and putting them all online.

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 2mo ago

Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned. From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...

Update on our case law scanning project: 606 volumes and 655,631 pages are scanned. From here they go through our redaction system and get digitized for inclusion in CourtListener. Earlier blog post: free.law/2026/04/16/s...

Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law

Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so...

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