@pipeworx/federal-appeals

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-appeals/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 2

Federal appellate dockets — the thirteen circuits, the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. 2.2 million dockets. This is the case on appeal; the written opinion that results is in the court-listener pack.

No API key.

What this is, and what it is not

Docket metadata: that a case exists, its parties, court, docket number, filing and termination dates, and assigned judge. It contains no filings — no complaints, motions, briefs or orders. Those are RECAP, a separate corpus that is not keyless.

An agent with this data knows a case was brought. It does not know what anyone argued.

Tools

Caveats

• Quarterly snapshot. Every response carries snapshot_date.
• date_terminated is 78.3% filled, so a missing date means not recorded, never still open. Responses say which.
• nature_of_suit is sparse — 14.8% corpus-wide, 30.5% in district courts. This can tell you a company is in federal court; it often cannot tell you what for.
• Party search matches a substring of the case caption, so a distinctive party name works better than a full caption.

Attribution

Data is CourtListener / Free Law Project, published under the Public Domain Mark. Free Law Project funds and maintains the corpus. If this pack is useful to you, https://free.law/donate/ is where that goes.

Tools

• federal_appeal_search — Find US FEDERAL APPEALS by party name. Searches 2.2 million federal appellate dockets — the circuit courts and the Supreme Court — no API key. Returns case caption, docket number, court, filing and te
• federal_appeal_recent — List recent US federal appellate dockets, newest first, optionally limited to one circuit. No API key, no rate limit.