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If CourtListener or @free.law Free Law Project has helped you research, track a case, or build something awesome-now is the time to give back.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Today is GivingTuesday!
If CourtListener or Free Law Project has helped you research, track a case, or build something awesome — today’s the day to give back.
Give back & share your story in a single step.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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We are launching a Justice Initiatives Division within Free Law Project focused on turning open law into real-world impact.

Our goal is to fill the voids in the legal system that lead to gaps in fair justice.

This is a big one. 🧵 free.law/2025/12/01/j...
Announcing Free Law Project's Justice Initiatives Division
Free Law Project is launching a new division—Justice Initiatives—to bring together our advocacy, partnerships, and technology development under one mission: transforming how people experience the lega...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Enter for your chance to win a free ticket to #SOCAP25! 🍀 One lucky winner will receive a ticket to SOCAP’s flagship event from Oct. 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Already a SOCAP25 ticket holder? Spread the word for a chance to save $400! Find more details & enter here: socapglobal.com/event-socap-...
June 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I miss Joe Biden. I'm still mad at the people that did him dirty.
andrewjweinstein.com Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · Apr 11
This was three months ago.
April 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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i'm not a lawyer, is it considered good practice to include the ChatGPT "here you go! let me know if you need anything else!" paragraph in your brief that also has at least nine citations to cases that don't exist? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
93. Defendant’s inclusion of a prayer for relief in their answer, seeking dismissal and attorneys' fees, is not only procedurally improper but also an attempt to introduce matters that are not part of the defense. These requests should be struck from the answer because they were made without a counterclaim, and Defendant has not provided any legal basis for these demands. The Court should order Defendant to comply with the proper procedures for seeking relief. 94. This approach directly challenges the procedural flaws in their prayer for relief and argues for the proper course of action in response to the claims and defenses they have raised. Hopefully, this helps ensure that Defendant doesn’t get to throw out these extraneous and baseless requests in their answer. Let me know if you need any adjustments or further help! 95. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(f), a court may strike from any pleading any “redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.” A request for attorney’s fees is an affirmative defense and must be pleaded with sufficient factual detail to provide notice to the opposing
April 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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free.law
Vote for our #SOCAP25 session!
Rethinking Capital: How a Nonprofit Can Provide the Fuel for Tech Breakthroughs
#LegalTech needs funding before VC kicks in. What if nonprofits filled the gap? Join us to explore #CatalyticCapital, the game-changer for legal innovation.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Vote for our #SOCAP25 session
Leveraging Technology to Access the Hidden Justice Market & Improve Economic Mobility
Millions face court alone—evictions, debt, custody. Can tech bridge the #justice gap? Explore solutions that empower litigants & modernize courts. #A2J
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April 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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To start the weekend, we've got a brand new experience for case law on CourtListener. It has better typography, more features and metadata, five million scanned decisions from @harvardlil.bsky.social, and a lot more. Read all about it and let us know what you think: free.law/2025/03/21/c...
A Faster, Smarter, Unified Case Law Experience
A redesigned case law modernizes the reading experience with enhanced layout and typography, more advanced features, better speed, and more.
free.law
March 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
jeniferw.bsky.social
This is going to be a great session!
free.law Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · Apr 2
Vote for our #SOCAP25 session
Leveraging Technology to Access the Hidden Justice Market & Improve Economic Mobility
Millions face court alone—evictions, debt, custody. Can tech bridge the #justice gap? Explore solutions that empower litigants & modernize courts. #A2J
socapglobal.com/session-idea...
April 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
jeniferw.bsky.social
This is going to be a great session!
Please vote to move it forward to the next stage.
free.law Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · Apr 2
Vote for our #SOCAP25 session!
Rethinking Capital: How a Nonprofit Can Provide the Fuel for Tech Breakthroughs
#LegalTech needs funding before VC kicks in. What if nonprofits filled the gap? Join us to explore #CatalyticCapital, the game-changer for legal innovation.
socapglobal.com/session-idea...
April 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries.

The Trump administration has placed roughly 80% of the agency's staff on administrative leave.
Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts after Trump order
It’s a small federal agency few have heard of, but it has a large impact around the country. The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the largest source of federal funding for museums and…
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April 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Do you want one of these sweet D20s? If you attend #LITCon2025 you can have one. Join us in Boston on April 7, 2025 to talk about law, innovation, and technology. And yes there will be some role playing. Register here: suffolklitlab.org/events/lit-c...
An open cardboard box filled with numerous sets of 20-sided dice (D20s), each set individually packaged in clear plastic bags. The dice come in a wide variety of colors, including pink, blue, green, orange, purple, and more, with different finishes such as translucent, marbled, and solid. The numbers on the dice are painted in contrasting colors like gold or white, making them easy to read. The box is placed on a wooden floor, and the dice appear neatly arranged.
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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free.law
On Friday we launched a brand new interface for case law, making it faster and much more powerful. Read about it below and let us know what you think! We think it's a huge step forward.
free.law Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · Mar 21
To start the weekend, we've got a brand new experience for case law on CourtListener. It has better typography, more features and metadata, five million scanned decisions from @harvardlil.bsky.social, and a lot more. Read all about it and let us know what you think: free.law/2025/03/21/c...
A Faster, Smarter, Unified Case Law Experience
A redesigned case law modernizes the reading experience with enhanced layout and typography, more advanced features, better speed, and more.
free.law
March 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Just understanding what the judge and other attorneys are saying is only a small part of what creates the barrier to justice for millions of people. #A2J #SelfRepresentedLitigants www.tiktok.com/@odsandra/vi...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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this is one of the best things you can do for yourself and i honestly believe that the fact that so many fail at it is why were are where we are
mrose.ink Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · Mar 19
Moving through life, you're gonna get legitimate criticism, and illegitimate criticism, and bad faith criticism. Learn to distinguish, and allocate your fucks accordingly.
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Have a PACER doc you really want, but you used up your free $30 of the quarter? Feel like bestowing some free PACER docs on strangers? This is such a fun project.
free.law Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · Mar 4
Our new "PACER Pray and Pay Project" is launched! This project lets you "Pray" for PACER documents you want, and has a leader board where other people can "Pay" for the most-wanted items.

When your prayer is granted, we let you know! Details below and here: www.courtlistener.com/help/pray-an...
An email. Subject: "A document you requested is now on CourtListener" Body headline: "Your Wish Has Been Granted!" The remainder of the email then shows the details of the filing, including the name of the case, a link to the document, and closes with, "You requested it on March 3, 2025. 1 person was waiting for it. Somebody paid $0.20 to make it available to all of us."
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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This type of judicial research is another reason why we need to open PACER. Hidden biases must be rooted out and addressed, not buried in inaccessible data.
wcraft.bsky.social Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · Mar 6
@maanvisingh.bsky.social found the story of a man who was tortured in Turkey and still had his asylum case denied. We found that the judge had only ever granted a single asylum case, one of the lowest rates of over 800 judges we reviewed
He was tortured in Turkey. He faced an immigration judge who almost never grants asylum
Harrowing story of ‘ES’, fleeing persecution to seek safety in US, shines light on judges who grant claims at exceptionally low rates – or not at all
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Book Giveaway!!!!
Win a copy of "The Tech That Comes Next" by Amy Sample Ward and Afua Bruce, two leaders in equitable design and use of new technologies, invite you to join them in asking big questions & making change from wherever you are today.
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March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Most members of the public have little reason to be aware of 18F, or will understand what its loss signifies. So this post tries to capture that, by including the voices of those who worked there. First, from @waldo.net
Once, I was part of a team of four people at 18F that saved the Department of Defense $500 million with a single, three-day project. 18F projects saved many millions of dollars as a matter of course, while delivering better results for Americans. Another time I was part of a two-person team (our billing worked out to about half an FTE, as I recall) that partnered with a court for 18 months to help them build, from scratch, an open source case management system to drive the operations of the entire court. The whole thing cost them just a few million bucks, vastly less than they’d been spending on their old system, and today their cost of operating it is a rounding error compared to their old infrastructure costs. All the work 18F did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. In short, 18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it. 18F’s work is evidence that government works well, which undermines their message that it doesn’t. 18F’s parent agency, the U.S. General Services Administration, turns a profit as an agency. So it has to be destroyed too.
March 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Read more: free.law/2025/02/26/f...

Enter to win ITC25 Keynote Afua Bruce's book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵: donate.free.law/forms/book-g...
March 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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New paper using our data shows a correlation between case outcomes and judicial investment conflicts. "We find robust evidence that judges appear to rule more favorably and take longer when deciding over conflicted cases" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Using novel data on financial disclosures of judges and the civil case information of public firms across district courts in the United States between 2000 and 2021, we document multiple instances in which judges fail to recuse themselves in cases where they hold common stock. We find robust evidence that judges appear to rule more favorably and take longer when deciding over conflicted cases than when deciding over unconflicted ones. We also find that investors are positively surprised by these outcomes, as reflected by stock returns to case outcomes. Collectively, our results provide the first large-scale evidence of the relation between judges’ financial holdings and case outcomes.
January 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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CourtListener's daily web traffic is up about 2×, and our PDF traffic is up much more than that (see chart below). If you like what we're doing, we could surely use more support! donate.free.law/forms/donate
A chart showing our PDF downloads for the past three months. The X axis is omitted because the chart generator is wonky, but the trend is up and to the right!
February 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This is why every law firm that practices in any federal court should install the Recap extension on their browser.
free.law Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · Feb 13
We're proud to support this NYT article citing CourtListener over 100 times. This is how we do it folks, and if you're looking for a solid, well-organized list of all the Trump Administration lawsuits, this is a great list: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Administration Lawsuits Tracker: DOGE, Transgender Rights and More
Follow the lawsuits and rulings that are challenging President Trump's executive orders.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM