# Court Rules API

> Structured legal data feeds: court rules, filing compliance, judge requirements, document classification, and privacy enforcement intelligence

- [Introduction](https://docs.courtrules.app/introduction.md): Filing rules for federal and state courts, each with the court's own wording and a link to its source, plus privacy enforcement data. Available through a REST API and an MCP server.
- [Coverage](https://docs.courtrules.app/concepts/coverage-levels.md): What the API covers and how to check coverage for a court in code
- [Authentication](https://docs.courtrules.app/authentication.md): How to authenticate with the Court Rules API
- [Read a court's rules](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/read-court-rules.md): Find a court and a judge, then read their filing rules with the court's own wording and a link to the document
- [Quickstart](https://docs.courtrules.app/quickstart.md): Get compliance results in under a minute
- [Same document, different judge](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/same-document-different-judge.md): How the same filing gets different compliance results depending on the assigned judge
- [MCP: Court Rules](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/mcp-court-rules.md): Connect AI agents to judge-specific filing rules and compliance checks using the Model Context Protocol.
- [Check categories](https://docs.courtrules.app/concepts/check-categories.md): What the /check endpoint validates and when each check applies
- [Document structure](https://docs.courtrules.app/concepts/document-structure.md): What document metadata to provide and what checks it enables
- [Integration patterns](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/integration-patterns.md): How to integrate court rules and enforcement data into your application
- [Rulebooks](https://docs.courtrules.app/concepts/rulebooks.md): Read the official text of a court rulebook rule by rule, and the filing requirements we read from each rule
- [Enforcement data](https://docs.courtrules.app/concepts/enforcement-data.md): Privacy enforcement events from federal and state regulators, with the company, the fine, the violation types, the laws cited and a link to the official source.
- [MCP: enforcement data](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/mcp-enforcement.md): Connect AI agents to structured privacy enforcement data from federal and state regulators using the Model Context Protocol.
- [Building with AI agents](https://docs.courtrules.app/guides/building-with-ai-agents.md): How to use the Court Rules API and enforcement data with AI agents and LLMs
- [Overview](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/overview.md): API Reference for Court Rules and Enforcement Data
- [List courts](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/courts.md): Returns every court we map, with coverage status
- [Get court](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/get-court.md): Returns detailed information for a single court
- [Court holidays](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/holidays.md): Returns court holidays and closure dates
- [List judges](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/judges.md): Returns the current judges for a court, with name, type, bio, chambers address, and whether we hold their own rules
- [Get rules](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/rules.md): Returns every rule that applies to a judge, from the court-wide layer down to the judge's own standing orders
- [Search extracted rules](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/extracted-rules.md): Query validated extracted filing rules from active source documents, including state court e-filing, timing, service, fee, courtesy-copy, and courtroom rules
- [List rulebooks](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/rulebooks.md): Lists the official rulebooks you can read, such as the California Rules of Court
- [Get rulebook](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/get-rulebook.md): Returns one official rulebook with its rule count and when it was last checked
- [List rulebook rules](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/rulebook-rules.md): Lists the rules of one rulebook in book order, with search, status filters and paging
- [Get rulebook rule](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/get-rulebook-rule.md): Returns one rule of a rulebook with its official text as structured blocks and plain text
- [Check a document](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/check.md): Run deterministic compliance checks against a federal court filing, checking page limits, formatting, required sections, and judge-specific standing order rules
- [Classify a document](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/classify.md): Upload a PDF and receive document classification, extracted metadata, and a partial /check request body when supported
- [Rate limits](https://docs.courtrules.app/api-reference/rate-limits.md): Per-minute and daily limits, response headers, and retry guidance

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](/api-reference/openapi.json)


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