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By accepting these Terms, you represent and warrant that you have full legal authority to bind yourself and, if applicable, the organization on whose behalf you are accessing the Service ("Customer") to these Terms, including the confidentiality and competitive-use provisions in Sections 3.4 and 3.5. If you do not have such authority, you must not accept these Terms. Any individual who accepts these Terms on behalf of an organization represents that they are authorized to do so, and the organization shall be bound accordingly.
You acknowledge that you have had the opportunity to review these Terms and to seek independent legal counsel before accepting them. In consideration of your agreement to these Terms, we agree to provide you with access to the Service, including API access, technical documentation, and support as described on our website.
CourtRules.app provides a database of federal court rules, standing orders, individual judge procedures, and privacy enforcement intelligence. The Service includes:
courtrules.appapi.courtrules.appWe reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you.
Subject to these Terms, you may access and use the Service for lawful purposes. You may use information from the Service for legal research, case preparation, and integration into legal tools and products.
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Access to the API requires registration and may require payment. API access is subject to rate limits, usage quotas, and additional terms that may be specified in your API plan or agreement. We may change pricing, rate limits, or available tiers at any time.
You are responsible for keeping your API keys confidential. You are liable for all activity that occurs under your API key. Do not share API keys or create multiple accounts to circumvent rate limits.
API data may be used in commercial products (legal tech tools, practice management software, compliance systems, etc.). You may not resell raw court rules data as a standalone database product or create a substantially similar competing service.
Through your use of the Service, you may gain access to or become aware of non-public information relating to the Service's implementation ("Confidential Information"), specifically including: (i) the internal architecture and sequencing of our extraction pipeline; (ii) the algorithms, prompt-engineering techniques, and multi-stage processing methods used in our classification and extraction system; (iii) our proprietary taxonomy schema definitions, field structures, and normalization logic beyond what is described in our published API reference documentation; (iv) internal quality scores, confidence metrics, and validation heuristics not exposed through the API; (v) our court-coverage roadmap, prioritization criteria, and expansion methodology; (vi) non-public technical documentation shared through authenticated channels; and (vii) any information expressly designated as confidential in writing by us. You agree to:
Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) is or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a breach of these Terms or any other confidentiality obligation, provided that information does not become "publicly available" merely because individual elements are publicly accessible if the specific combination, arrangement, or compilation of such elements is not publicly available; (b) was rightfully in your possession before receiving it through the Service, as documented by contemporaneous written records; (c) is independently developed by you without reference to the Confidential Information, subject to the requirements of Section 3.5; or (d) is required to be disclosed by law, provided you give us prompt written notice and cooperate with any effort to obtain protective treatment.
For clarity, information contained in our published API reference documentation, public marketing materials, and generally observable Service behavior (such as response times and publicly listed coverage) does not constitute Confidential Information. However, analyzing API responses, error messages, or system behavior to infer non-public implementation details constitutes access to Confidential Information under this Section.
You agree that you will not, directly or indirectly, use any Confidential Information obtained through access to the Service to design, develop, build, launch, market, or assist any third party in creating a product or service whose primary function is to extract, classify, normalize, and distribute court rules, standing orders, or individual judge procedures through an API, database product, or similar data service, where such product or service utilizes our proprietary taxonomy structure, extraction pipeline architecture, or classification methodology as learned through access to the Service. This restriction applies for a period of thirty-six (36) months following the date you last accessed Confidential Information through the Service, except that obligations with respect to information that constitutes a trade secret under applicable law shall continue for so long as such information remains a trade secret.
For clarity, this Section does not restrict you from: (a) independently developing products or services without reference to Confidential Information, provided that such development is conducted by personnel who have not had access to Confidential Information obtained through the Service, and that you maintain reasonable information barriers between personnel who have accessed the Service and personnel engaged in competitive development; (b) consuming and displaying the Service's API outputs for their intended purpose within your own products, as permitted under Section 3.3, provided that such use does not include analyzing or deconstructing API outputs to replicate the Service's data processing, classification, or extraction capabilities; or (c) engaging in general competition in the legal technology market using your own independently developed technology. Products that process court rules data using independently developed methodologies are not restricted under this Section.
You acknowledge that any breach of this Section or Section 3.4 would cause irreparable harm to us that cannot be adequately compensated by monetary damages alone, and that we shall be entitled to seek injunctive and equitable relief without the necessity of proving actual damages or posting a bond. You waive any defense that a remedy at law would be adequate and any requirement for the posting of a bond or other security.
A breach of this Section shall constitute a material breach of these Terms, entitling us to immediate termination and revocation of all API access, in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.
If you are provided access to the Service for evaluation or trial purposes, such access is limited to internal evaluation only. All provisions of these Terms apply to evaluation access, including Sections 3.4 and 3.5. Upon expiration or termination of an evaluation period, you agree to promptly delete or destroy all copies of Confidential Information, including any notes, analyses, or derivative materials incorporating Confidential Information, and to certify such deletion upon request.
Important Legal Notice
Always verify rules with the original source document before filing. CourtRules.app is a research tool, not a substitute for reading actual standing orders. We provide links to source PDFs for verification.
THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, DATA, AND INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
We do not warrant that: (a) rules are accurate, complete, or current; (b) our extraction or analysis will capture every rule or detail; (c) the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; or (d) any defects will be corrected.
Federal court rules, standing orders, and individual judge procedures are public documents created by the federal judiciary. We do not claim ownership of the underlying court rules.
The Service, including its design, code, database structure, taxonomy, extraction pipeline, classification algorithms, data processing methodologies, API, user interface, and all original content, is our proprietary property and is protected by intellectual property laws, including trade secret law. Our trade secrets include, without limitation: our multi-stage extraction pipeline architecture and the specific sequencing and interaction of pipeline stages; our proprietary prompt-engineering techniques and their documented performance improvements over baseline approaches; our court-specific adaptation algorithms; our quality-assurance scoring and validation heuristics; our rule-change detection methodology; and our coverage expansion prioritization framework. Each of these has been developed through substantial investment of time and resources.
You acknowledge that the Service embodies valuable trade secrets and that access to the Service does not convey any ownership interest in, or license to, the underlying technology, methodologies, or processes. We maintain reasonable security measures to protect our trade secrets, including access controls on technical documentation, authentication requirements for API access, audit logging of API usage, and contractual confidentiality obligations. Your access to the Service is logged, and API responses may contain tracking identifiers.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service, nor may you reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, algorithms, or data models of the Service, except to the extent that such restriction is prohibited by mandatory applicable law that cannot be waived by contract.
For clarity, our claims under these Terms are based on contract, trade secret law, and unfair competition, and are not claims of copyright in factual data or public legal information. Nothing in these Terms restricts your right to access, process, or distribute public court rules using your own independently developed methods. These Terms restrict the use of our proprietary implementation methods, not access to public legal information.
Any feedback, suggestions, or ideas you provide about the Service become our property. We may use feedback for any purpose without obligation or compensation to you.
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You acknowledge that we may collect, use, and disclose information about your use of the Service, including usage data, analytics, device information, and other data as described in our Privacy Policy.
Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") in accordance with its Commercial Arbitration Rules. The arbitration shall be conducted in New York County, New York, before a single arbitrator. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to prevent actual or threatened breach of Sections 3.4, 3.5, or 5.2, or actual or threatened infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. For clarity, claims for breach of the confidentiality, competitive-use, or proprietary-rights provisions of these Terms are within the scope of this exception regardless of whether they are characterized as contract, trade-secret, or intellectual-property claims.
Either party may terminate these Terms at any time. You may terminate by ceasing all use of the Service and notifying us at legal@courtrules.app. We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, including but not limited to violation of these Terms. Upon termination:
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For international users: you acknowledge that these Terms are governed by New York law regardless of your location, and you waive any right to argue that the laws of your home jurisdiction should apply to disputes arising under these Terms, except as required by mandatory applicable law that cannot be waived by contract.
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