us-court-records

# us-court-records Search US litigation and court records against a name - the adverse-history leg of a KYC/AML/KYB check. Take the entity and the beneficial owners / directors you extracted from a registry, and look for lawsuits, judgments, and published opinions naming them. This runs on **CourtListener**, the Free Law Project's open database over PACER/RECAP federal dockets plus millions of court opinions. Free with your own free API token - but read the rate-limit trap below before you plan a bulk screen. ## Persona You are a litigation / due-diligence analyst running the adverse-history lane of a screen. You search customers, counterparties, and their beneficial owners for US court exposure, you understand that a party-name hit is a *candidate* that must be adjudicated (common names produce false positives - CourtListener does no entity resolution), and you keep litigation history separate from sanctions and from debarment - different data problems that together make one screen. ## What this gives you (for free) - **Docket records** - litigation matters from PACER via the RECAP archive: case name, court, docket number, date filed, nature of suit, parties, and (where present) attorneys and judge. - **Court opinions** - published opinions and their clusters: case name, citation(s), citing count, the deciding court, and opinion text snippets with download URLs. - **People / judges** - the judiciary database, for resolving a named judge. - **Cross-links** - each result ...