What this page is
This is an external provider — a service that can help discover sources — listed in a pinned inventory of candidates. It is not a Source Record: no Counterpedia source identity, capture, or admission is attached to it, and nothing it returns becomes a source, evidence, or support by being returned.
State at a glance
- Provider
- CourtListener
courtlistener - Inventory status
- Candidate
- Adapter
- Adapter landed
An adapter for this provider is merged into the integration codebase, as of the pinned snapshot. Implemented code only: it is not a statement about what Counterpedia has admitted, or about what public Search reaches.
- Operational verification
- Documentation pinned — not live-probed
Operational facts were pinned to the provider's own published documentation on the recorded date. They were not confirmed by a live call. Recorded 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z.
- Corpus closure
- Not evaluated
No corpus-closure ruling exists for this provider. This is neither a finding that its universe is incomplete nor that any corpus is closed over it.
- Origin class / temporal semantics
- Index · Unknown
What it can discover
As declared in the pinned inventory. These describe what the service claims to expose, not what Counterpedia holds or has verified.
- Source families
- Law
- Court records
- Provider kinds
- Search
- Index
- Capabilities
- Search
- Metadata lookup
- Evidentiary classes the service may expose
- Court record
- Court docket metadata
- Counterpedia seams
- Search provider — Discovery by query.
- Research federation — Governed research-federation reads.
Seams are engineering fit only; none grants source status, standing, identity, support, or admission.
What this does not establish
- That the provider's universe has been admitted to Counterpedia. A landed adapter shows that code exists; it does not show that any of the provider's records were acquired, verified, or admitted, or that public Search reaches the provider.
- That the documented operational facts were confirmed by a live call. They were pinned to documentation, not probed.
- Whether the provider's universe is complete, or that any Counterpedia corpus is closed over it. No closure ruling exists.
- That anything this provider returns is a Counterpedia Source Record, retained bytes, or an identity.
- That a result from this provider supports any claim, or carries standing or admission.
- That listing this provider, counting it, or building an adapter for it widens Counterpedia's corpus or measures corpus closure.
- Origin class is provenance topology, not a quality grade, and says nothing about independence from sources already used for a claim.
Operational facts (provider documentation)
- Authentication
- Token/API key recommended (Authorization: Token <key>); also cookie and HTTP Basic; open by default, token for programmatic use.
- Rate limits
- Authenticated default 5/min, 50/hour, 125/day (concurrent rolling windows, most restrictive wins); higher limits via Free Law Project membership/commercial agreement.
- Rights
- Bulk data is free of known copyright restrictions and carries the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 — a MARK indicating no known copyright, not a CC0-style dedication/waiver.
- Access modes
- Interactive API, Bulk dump
Independence and scope notes
Verbatim from the producer inventory.
- Independence
- UNVERIFIED — origin independence against live claim families has not been established.
- Scope and capability
- UNVERIFIED — positive and negative scope must be pinned to provider evidence before adapter selection.
Relationship to Counterpedia
- Listed under “Connectors implemented” in Search coverage (Corpus)
A listing in Search coverage states reach and indexing only. It does not admit the provider's records, create a Source Record, or verify anything.
- Network composition shell, Scene 1 (experimental demonstration)
A projection adapter over a selected-capture receipt exists; the scene shows a receipt only when one is configured. It is not a live CourtListener connection and does not admit anything.
Source Atlas: this directory attaches no Source Record to this provider. Source Records keep their own capture and admission posture, and are never linked to a provider by name or host.
Provenance of this row
- Provider
- courtlistener
- Inventory schema
- si.source_service_inventory.v0.1
- Inventory sha256
- sha256:c55d8d36b83a8b83cc8cddcab58bdb8ee08b11c341c531f4d55a25995edd2977
- This row (canonical sha256)
- sha256:aabce1f6333702b91edd896b9ed2c95a0536b1c280a9e62e3f7cee06c49b669b
A pinned snapshot, not a live read: it is regenerated deterministically from the producer inventory whose digest is shown above and can lag the producer. Implementation coordinates that the pinned record keeps for adapters (repository, file, and change references) are held in Counterpedia’s internal provenance record and are not shown on this public page.