OpenLaws Courts API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: OpenLaws API Documentation Courts API
  version: 1.0.4
  description: OpenLaws Legal Data API
  contact:
    name: OpenLaws PBC
    url: https://openlaws.us/api
    email: team@openlaws.us
  license:
    name: Commercial
    url: https://openlaws.us/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.openlaws.us
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Courts
  description: Courts issue Opinions and belong to a Jurisdiction.
paths:
  /api/v1/jurisdictions/{jurisdiction_key}/courts:
    get:
      summary: Get Courts by Jurisdiction
      description: Lists all the active and inactive courts for a Jurisdiction. Note that federal bankruptcy courts are separate from federal courts.
      tags:
      - Courts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/jurisdictionKeyParam'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List Courts by Jurisdiction
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Court'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFound'
      operationId: getCourtsByJurisdiction
  /api/v1/jurisdictions/{jurisdiction_key}/courts/{court_key}:
    get:
      summary: Get single Court
      description: Returns a single court identified by the court_key. Court key is also the unique identifier in the CourtListener data set.
      tags:
      - Courts
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/jurisdictionKeyParam'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/courtKeyParam'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Get one Court by courtKey
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Court'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/badRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFound'
      operationId: getCourt
components:
  responses:
    badRequest:
      description: 400 Bad Request. Please check your jurisdiction and citation format.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    notFound:
      description: 404 Not Found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    unauthorized:
      description: 401 Unauthorized. Please check your API Bearer token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    courtKeyParam:
      name: court_key
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        example: scotus
      description: Unique identifier for a Court. See the /jurisdictions/{jurisdiction_key}/courts endpoint for possible values.
    jurisdictionKeyParam:
      name: jurisdiction_key
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        example: FED
      description: Two to three letter Jurisdiction Key. `FED` for federal and generally, the postal abbreviation for most U.S. states and territories.
  schemas:
    NullableDate:
      description: Nullable ISO 8601 Date
      type:
      - string
      - 'null'
      format: date
      example: '1776-04-01'
    Error:
      description: RFC9457 Problem Details
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          example: 404
        title:
          type: string
        instance:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
        details:
          type: string
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      required:
      - status
      - title
    Court:
      description: Represents a single Court and closely aligns to CourtListener's data set. Courts contain Opinions.
      type: object
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
          example: scotus
          description: Unique identifier for the court
        jurisdiction_key:
          type: string
          example: FED
          description: Two to three letter Jurisdiction Key. `FED` for federal and generally, the postal abbreviation for most U.S. states and territories.
        parent_court_key:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: null
          description: Parent court key if applicable
        name:
          type: string
          example: Supreme Court of the United States
        short_name:
          type: string
          example: Supreme Court
        abbreviation:
          type: string
          example: SCOTUS
        start_date:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NullableDate'
          - example: '1789-09-24'
        end_date:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NullableDate'
          - example: null
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      description: Authenticate API requests via a bearer token
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
x-ext-urls: {}