Current coverage
DocketLayer v2.0.0 launches with coverage of 2,150 courts across three jurisdictions.US federal courts
All US federal courts carryfull coverage. Most are accessed via CM/ECF (through PACER); the 2nd and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals use ACMS.
- All 94 US district courts
- All 94 US bankruptcy courts
- All 13 circuit courts of appeals (CM/ECF appellate; ACMS for the 2nd and 9th Circuits)
- Court of Federal Claims (
uscfc) - Court of International Trade (
cit)
US state courts
All 50 US states are covered via a combination of dedicated state scrapers. Coverage depth varies by state — courts with dedicated scrapers return richer data than courts using more limited public portals. Individual court coverage status (full, partial, or planned) is available in real time at no charge:
planned status pending commercial access approval from the Texas Office of Court Administration. Texas courts appear in /v2/status but return 422 on docket queries until the agreement is in place.
Canadian courts
Federal (3 courts):
Provincial and territorial superior courts (22 courts):
Ten courts carry
full coverage: the three federal courts (fct, fca, tcc) and seven provincial courts (bc_sc, bc_ca, mb_kb, mb_ca, nb_kb, nb_ca, on_ca). The remaining 13 active courts carry partial coverage. Two Quebec courts — qc_cs and qc_ca — carry planned status pending a SOQUIJ commercial agreement and are not available for paid queries.
What is not covered
The following are outside DocketLayer’s scope by design:- US Supreme Court — SCOTUS dockets are public but do not map to the case-level normalized structure DocketLayer uses
- US Tax Court — not on PACER; separate access arrangement required
- Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces — not on PACER
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — not publicly accessible
- Document delivery — DocketLayer returns docket metadata and entry descriptions; it does not retrieve or serve the underlying court documents
- Party-centric queries — the API is case-centric; there is no endpoint to search by party name across cases
- Cross-case search — no full-text or keyword search across the docket corpus
- Non-public state courts — state courts whose records are not accessible via a public portal are not covered