Docket Search

Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER archive.

Overview

Search US federal court dockets — civil and criminal — from the RECAP/PACER archive. Full-text q (case name, party, e.g. "United States v. Bankman-Fried"), optional court (CourtListener court id like "cand", "nysd", "ca9"), filedAfter/filedBefore (YYYY-MM-DD), page. Or pass docketNumber (+ court) for exact lookup. Each docket: id, case name, court, docket number, date filed/terminated, nature of suit, assigned judge, public docket URL. Criminal-case research, litigation monitoring, KYC/due-diligence. Sibling endpoints: /api/law/case-search (opinions full-text), /api/law/opinion (full opinion text).

Endpoint

Method	Endpoint	Price	Description
GET	/v1/marketplace/api/docket-search	$0.00552	Invoke Docket Search (Search) and return the upstream response.

How to call it

Requests are paid per call over the x402 protocol. Call the endpoint, receive a 402 Payment Required quote, then repeat the request with the signed payment header. The SDKs do both steps for you.

# 1. Ask for a quote
curl -i https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/docket-search

# 2. Pay it (the SDK signs and retries for you)
curl -H "X-PAYMENT: <signed-payload>" https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/docket-search

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