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):| Court code | Court |
|---|---|
fct | Federal Court of Canada |
fca | Federal Court of Appeal |
tcc | Tax Court of Canada |
| Court code | Court |
|---|---|
bc_sc | Supreme Court of British Columbia |
bc_ca | Court of Appeal for British Columbia |
ab_kb | Court of King’s Bench of Alberta |
ab_ca | Court of Appeal of Alberta |
on_scj | Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) |
on_ca | Court of Appeal for Ontario |
qc_cs | Cour supérieure du Québec |
qc_ca | Cour d’appel du Québec |
mb_kb | Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba |
mb_ca | Court of Appeal of Manitoba |
sk_kb | Court of King’s Bench of Saskatchewan |
sk_ca | Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan |
ns_sc | Supreme Court of Nova Scotia |
ns_ca | Nova Scotia Court of Appeal |
nb_kb | Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick |
nb_ca | Court of Appeal of New Brunswick |
nl_sc | Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador |
nl_ca | Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador |
pe_sc | Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island |
nt_sc | Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories |
nu_cj | Nunavut Court of Justice |
yt_sc | Supreme Court of Yukon |
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
Coverage status values
Each court in the system carries one of three coverage values:| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
full | Scraper is active and the court is fully supported |
partial | Court is reachable but coverage has known gaps |
planned | Scraper built or planned; access pending — returns 422 on query |