PACER Case Locator API
Governmental nationwide federal-case and party-search API returning JSON or XML case data, including bankruptcy filing date, chapter, discharge date, and open/closed case status.
Questions this answers
2 · best fit firstPACER's nationwide federal party search returns bankruptcy court case fields including filing date, chapter, open/closed status, disposition, and discharge or dismissal dates where applicable. It does not cover non-federal insolvency regimes and the cited schema does not guarantee organisation registration identifier, complete authority/case matching, record vintage, or search timestamp.
PACER's nationwide federal party search accepts person names and returns bankruptcy filing date, chapter, open/closed case status, disposition, and discharge or dismissal dates where applicable. The API supplies the core case-date pins, but name-match basis and record/search as-of time must be captured separately and federal coverage excludes other insolvency proceedings.
Fields it delivers
5 fieldsThe PACER Case Locator covers federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts throughout the United States; it is limited to federal cases.
PACER states that registered users may be charged based on search-result pages and documents, including party-name searches. Fee waivers and the quarterly low-usage waiver are alternatives, but the standing business route is fee-based and therefore paid.
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