In general, we follow the court's lead on sealed records. If they ask us to take something down, we do. But when an *order* applies to the entire public (with us included), that's unconstitutional and we fight to protect our rights.
Another use case for the CourtListener MCP (@free.law crushed it here) - paste into Claude a passage from a court case, it finds, verifies, and hyperlinks the citations.
We just heard from a journalist that had their house broken into after their address appeared in a court filing.
Journalists: Create a search alert for your address in CourtListener. We'll send you an email as soon as we get data that matches the query: www.courtlistener.com/help/alerts/
We're proud to support this article further highlighting the many gifts that some federal judges receive: www.al.com/news/2026/06...
PACER is an insecure and illegally expensive disaster that’s been hacked numerous times. We and others have been working on the new bill below to finally fix it. This will make it free and modern. Let’s go!
PACER absolutely should be free. There’s no legitimate reason why members of the press and public should be charged for access to public records they themselves look up online.
The Sen. Kennedy + @wyden.senate.gov Open Courts Act now has a bill number: S. 4667.
Text here www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/_cach... + Fix the Court reaction (we like it!) here: fixthecourt.com/2026/06/fix-...
We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record.
With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won.
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Re-upping this for journalists working on political cases. Our system can help keep you safe.