Ambrogi – Law Sites
Free Law Project’s CourtListener has launched RECAP Search Alerts, a new feature that allows users to monitor federal court filings for specific keywords, people, or topics, and receive alerts when there is a match. The service, which went live this week, represents what the organization calls “Google Alerts for federal courts, but much better.”
RECAP Search Alerts builds upon CourtListener’s existing RECAP archive, which contains the largest open collection of federal court docket data on the internet. The archive includes nearly every federal case, hundreds of millions of docket entries, and tens of millions of legal documents. What makes this new feature significant, the organization says, is that it transforms this static repository into an active monitoring system.
The alerts work based on a user’s saved search queries. Whenever new PACER filings match those saved searches, the user is notified. While CourtListener already had a docket-alerts feature, it only monitored specific cases for updates. With search alerts, users can cast a much wider net to catch new cases or filings that mention particular terms, people, organizations or topics.
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