PACER Case Locator (PCL) API

The PACER Case Locator (PCL) API is a REST API providing programmatic access to a nationwide index of federal court cases across all Federal Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy courts. Supports both immediate searches (returning up to 5,400 items per search) and batch searches (up to 108,000 items). Case searches return groups of cases; party searches return parties associated with cases. Supports JSON and XML encoding. Requires PACER authentication token. Separate QA and Production environments are available for development and testing.