Sorry, CA2 changed their website. We're working to get RECAP fixed, but it's a major change on their side.

Things seem to be back up. It was a tough one, sorry for the downtime. The problem wasn't somebody sending a LOT of queries, it was somebody sending a few really nasty ones, which we've now blocked until we can optimize them.

Unfortunately, some are using these files to become legal data providers, making it harder for us to do all the things mentioned above.

Hopefully today's change will strike a better balance that can still spur innovation and research, but without us giving away everything quite so often. 6/6

This also supports free API data access that we give to more and more legal researchers, journalists, and startups every day.

Bulk data files are available to help legal researchers do empirical work, and to help legal orgs prototype new technology. 5/6

Data agreements with ethical organizations are a source of revenue for us when donations and grants are not enough.

This allows us to host our website with half a billion records and thousands of users, including academic researchers and journalists. Last year, we served over 800M downloads. 4/6

Few people used these visualizations and they've already been in maintenance mode for years.

We're launching a new version of CourtListener later this year, and rebuilding the visualizations on the new site would be a lot of work. It's a natural time to scale them back to API/embed only. 3/6

The visualizations will be removed from our website, but are still available via our API and as embeds. If you find them useful, you can make new vis's via API and put them on your website, just not ours anymore. 2/6

To be clear, we’re thrilled they’ve overhauled PACER in these circuits. They actually did it twice, but didn’t like the technical approach the first time. That’s courts being agile!

AI is making it very hard to maintain CourtListener as an open website without blowing our budget. Vibe coders are using our APIs poorly and very powerful scrapers are running wild. We'll of course stay the course, but it's difficult. Sorry again.

That said, we do have ideas for making this smoother. The catch is that it will take time we could spend on other things... ⚖️

It actually works well. Lots of people appreciate what we do, recognize that the extension brings them value, and contribute, despite this being a nuisance.

We don’t make you log into the extension, so without this or something similar, we have very few ways to reach people.