Court Rules

The Court Rules Blog

Practical guides on court rules, enforcement trends, filing compliance, and legal data infrastructure.

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

State Court Rules Are Now Live for California and Illinois

CourtRules.app now includes state trial court rules and filing guidance for Los Angeles Superior Court, Cook County, DuPage County, and Kane County.

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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.