Product··8 min read
We Found 12,000+ Filing Rules Hiding Across 27 State Courts
27 trial courts, 2,000+ judges, and 12,000+ filing rules. Court Rules has reached 10,000+ litigators, paralegals, and legal-tech builders since February.
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The Court Rules Blog
Practical guides on court rules, enforcement trends, filing compliance, and legal data infrastructure.
Developer Guide··6 min read
Two Frontier Models Got the Page Limit Right. One Invented the Rule It Came From.
We asked GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3.1 Pro the same real court filing question. Both got the page limit right. One of them cited a section number and a verbatim quote that doesn't exist.
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Court Technology··6 min read
PACER Still Isn't an API in 2026 (And Someone Just Won $125 Million Proving It)
PACER still charges $0.10 a page in 2026, a federal court just settled a $125 million overcharge suit, and real replacement is years away. Here's what that means if you're building on top of it.
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Legal Industry Analysis··7 min read
We Mapped Five Legal Data APIs by What They Actually Know. Only One Knows Your Margins.
PACER, CourtListener, UniCourt, and Trellis all get called a 'legal data API.' They answer completely different questions. A real comparison of what each one actually returns.
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Legal Industry Analysis··6 min read
CourtListener Just Opened Its Full API to Every Member. Here's the One Question It Still Can't Answer.
Free Law Project's CourtListener API now gives every member full access to dockets, opinions, judges, and financial disclosures. It's real infrastructure. It still has no field for what a judge requires you to file.
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Product··4 min read
Ask a Judge's Rules and Get the Answer With Its Source
Judge pages are 57 percent of what people read here. Now you can ask a question on any of them and get a plain-English answer, the rule quoted word for word, and a link to the page it came from.
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Enforcement Data··7 min read
Privacy Enforcement Is Becoming Product Data
We track 1,338 enforcement actions across 14 jurisdictions. The recent feed shows why legal teams need structured records, not more regulatory alerts.
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State Courts··5 min read
Four State Courts, One Big Lesson: The Rule Is Never in Just One Place
Our first state-court pilot covered Los Angeles, Cook, DuPage, and Kane. It taught us why state procedure needs layers, not one more pile of PDFs.
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Deadline Tools··4 min read
Court Deadline Calculator for Business Days, Court Days, and Holidays
A deadline calculator is only useful if it knows when the court is closed. Here is how to count business days, calendar days, and court days with federal and state holiday calendars.
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California Courts··4 min read
Los Angeles Superior Court Deadline Calculator: 2026 Court Days and Holidays
Los Angeles Superior Court deadlines can move when Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, or another court holiday falls in the count. Here is how to check the date.
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Court Rules Deep Dive··6 min read
The Judge Who Banned Comic Sans (And 8 Other Font Feuds in Federal Court)
Judges care about fonts more than you think. Century Schoolbook loyalists, Garamond rebels, and the standing order that specifies your footnote size to the tenth of a point.
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Team Dispatches··7 min read
We Read 600 Standing Orders So You Don't Have To
Our team spent months crawling, parsing, and structuring individual judge practices across 20 federal districts. Here's what we found, by the numbers.
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Court Culture··5 min read
Courtroom Dress Codes in 2026: Yes, Someone Wore Crocs to Federal Court
Federal judges put dress code rules in their standing orders. Flip-flops, shorts, visible tattoos: we found the provisions that say what you can and cannot wear.
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Court Technology··5 min read
Which Federal Courts Still Require Fax Machines in 2026?
CD-ROMs, fax cover sheets, physical courtesy copies on colored paper. We catalogued the most analog requirements still hiding in federal court rules.
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Filing Pitfalls··5 min read
The Lunch Recess That Blew a Filing Deadline
E-filing cutoffs, time zone traps, and the difference between midnight in New York and midnight in Los Angeles. How the clock works against you in federal court.
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Court Culture··6 min read
Standing Orders That Read Like Passive-Aggressive Roommate Notes
Federal judges are polite professionals. Except in their standing orders, where decades of frustration with attorneys leaks into the prose. We collected the best ones.
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Developer Guide··6 min read
Your AI Agent Doesn't Know Court Rules. Now It Can.
We built an MCP server that gives AI agents access to structured court rules and enforcement data. Here is what it does and how to set it up.
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Legal Product Strategy··6 min read
Between Draft and File, Nobody's Checking
Every legal tech stack has a drafting tool and a filing tool. Between them is a gap where documents meet a judge's rules for the first time. We analyzed federal docket data to measure what that gap actually costs.
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Legal Industry Analysis··9 min read
The 2026 Legal Docketing Market Map
Most docketing software doesn't maintain its own rules. It licenses them. Here's who actually produces the rules behind your deadlines, where errors originate, and what's shifting in 2026.
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Court Procedures··5 min read
14 Days Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Calendar days, business days, court days. Federal deadline math is full of traps. Here's what FRCP 6(a) actually says, where judges override it, and how to stop guessing.
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Legal Industry Analysis··4 min read
Rule 83 and the Tower of Babel: How Individual Judge Procedures Create Chaos in Federal Litigation
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were supposed to create one system for every federal court. Rule 83 quietly undid that promise, and 670+ judges have been writing their own procedural playbooks ever since.
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Court Rules Deep Dive··5 min read
7 Federal Court Rules That Get Filings Killed
Spiral-binding mandates. Banned footnotes in affidavits. A 3-page limit you didn't know existed. These are the rules that trip up even experienced litigators.
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Court Procedures··4 min read
The Magistrate Maze: Why Your District Judge's Rules Don't Apply to Discovery Disputes
Discovery goes to the Magistrate. Dispositive motions go to the District Judge. Mix them up and your 25-page brief gets rejected.
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Developer Guide··4 min read
Deadline Calculation in Federal Court is Harder Than You Think
14 days after service. Calendar days or business days? What if day 14 is a Saturday? Here's how to turn unstructured PDF rules into deterministic dates.
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Law Firm Economics··4 min read
Why Researching Federal Court Rules Still Feels Like 1998
Every federal judge has their own procedures. Finding them, reading them, and making sure they haven't changed is a quiet tax on every litigation practice in the country.
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We write about court rules, enforcement intelligence, filing compliance, and the data infrastructure behind legal operations.