# CourtListener integration

> Free legal research API for U.S. federal and state court opinions, dockets, judges, oral arguments, and PACER data, run by the Free Law Project.

- Authentication: apiKey

## Tools (18)

- **Citation Lookup**: Resolve plain-text or structured citations to their canonical CourtListener cases — verifies citations and combats AI hallucinations.
- **Create Alert**: Create a search alert that fires when new content matches a saved CourtListener search query.
- **Delete Alert**: Delete a saved search alert by ID.
- **Get Docket**: Retrieve a single docket by ID with full case metadata and links to clusters, audio, and PACER entries.
- **Get Opinion**: Retrieve a single court opinion by ID, including its full text and citation graph.
- **Get Opinion Cluster**: Retrieve a single opinion cluster (case) by ID, with case name, citations, panel, and links to sub-opinions.
- **Get Person (Judge)**: Retrieve a single person record (judge) by ID, with biographical fields and URLs to positions, education, affiliations.
- **List Alerts**: List the search alerts on the connected account — saved queries that email/webhook when new matches are indexed.
- **List Courts**: List the 3,300+ courts CourtListener covers, with jurisdiction, abbreviation, and ID for filtering other endpoints.
- **List Docket Entries**: List the chronological docket entries (filings, orders, motions) for a given case, sourced from PACER via RECAP.
- **List Dockets**: List dockets (case file metadata) for federal and state courts, including PACER-sourced cases via RECAP.
- **List Judge Positions**: List judicial and other professional positions a person has held — court, title, appointment dates, and confirmation details.
- **List Opinion Clusters**: List opinion clusters — the case-level metadata (citations, judges, panel, syllabus) that groups related opinions together.
- **List Opinions**: List court opinion documents (the actual decision text), with full Django-style filtering and ordering.
- **List Oral Argument Audio**: List oral argument audio recordings — the largest internet collection — with download URLs and case metadata.
- **List People (Judges)**: List judges and other legal figures with biographical data, education, and political affiliations.
- **List RECAP Documents**: List PACER filings (motions, briefs, orders, exhibits) archived in the RECAP collection.
- **Search**: Run a free-text legal search across opinions, dockets, RECAP filings, judges, or oral arguments — same query language as the CourtListener website.

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Connect CourtListener in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/courtlistener