federal_appeal_search

Pack: federal-appeals · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-appeals/mcp

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 termination dates. Use for “has this case been appealed”, “what is on appeal in the Ninth Circuit”, and appellate history checks. For the resulting written OPINION and its full text, use the court-listener pack.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
partystringyesParty name or a distinctive part of it, e.g. “Oracle”.
courtstringnoOptional circuit id, e.g. “ca9”, “ca2”, “cafc”, “scotus”.
filed_afterstringnoOnly cases filed on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
filed_beforestringnoOnly cases filed on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
limitnumbernoMaximum dockets to return (1-50, default 10).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "party": "Oracle",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-appeals/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"federal_appeal_search","arguments":{"party":"Oracle","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('federal_appeal_search', {
  "party": "Oracle",
  "limit": 5
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-appeals": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-appeals/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

Regenerated from source · build August 9, 2026