courtlistener-research

Researches public US legal opinions, courts, and judicial people through CourtListener via the Crawlora API, returning clean JSON. Use when the user wants to search opinions, browse courts, or look up public judge/person records without scraping CourtListener pages.

Search CourtListener's public opinion index and browse its court and judicial person directories as normalized JSON.

When to use this skill

• Search public opinions by text.
• Discover courts and retrieve one court record.
• Browse or look up public judicial-person records.
• Build an initial legal-research shortlist before opening primary documents.

Setup

• Get a Crawlora API key at crawlora.net.
• Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY in the environment before running the helper.
• The helper reads CRAWLORA_API_KEY from the environment and sends requests to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1.

How it works

Use /courtlistener/search for opinion text search, /courtlistener/courts for court discovery/detail, and /courtlistener/people for public judicial person records. Treat results as research leads and verify legal conclusions against the underlying opinion and applicable jurisdiction.

Full endpoint list: reference/endpoints.md.