Court Rules
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About
Court Rules is a free reference for U.S. federal court practice: the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, district local rules, individual judge standing orders and court holidays, organized by court. The deadline calculator counts calendar, business and court days and applies each district’s holidays. A public API and an MCP server at courtrules.app/mcp serve the same data to legal-tech tools.
The case
Who it is for
Solo practitioners and small‑firm paralegals who need to locate judge filing rules quickly
What is broken today
Before CourtRules.app, locating a judge’s standing order required searching court websites, PDFs, and agency press releases. The process was time‑consuming, inconsistent, and error‑prone, leading to rejected filings or missed compliance risks.
What it does about it
CourtRules.app scrapes court and agency websites, parses PDFs into structured fields, and indexes them in a searchable database. Users can query by judge, court, rule topic, or enforcement action, and retrieve the original source with page references.
Why not the obvious alternative
Unlike generic search engines or paid legal research platforms, CourtRules.app provides a dedicated, structured index of judge‑specific filing rules and privacy enforcement actions, with direct links to original documents and automated freshness checks, eliminating manual PDF parsing.
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Questions
- Is CourtRules.app free?
- Yes. CourtRules.app is free to use for individual legal professionals, with no login or subscription required.
- Does CourtRules.app offer an API?
- Yes. The platform offers a commercial API and MCP server for legal technology companies that want to integrate court rules and enforcement data into their products.
- How often is the data updated?
- CourtRules.app continuously checks court websites and agency sites for updates to standing orders and enforcement actions, ensuring that users always see the latest version.
- What courts and judges are covered?
- The service covers federal courts by circuit, state courts by state, and individual judges who publish standing orders, with coverage expanding as new documents are added.
- Can I see the original source document?
- Yes. Every rule and enforcement action links back to the original court or agency document and includes the specific page number for verification.
Court Rules TeamMaker18d
We built CourtRules.app to give legal professionals instant access to judge filing rules, court holidays, and privacy enforcement actions. All data is sourced directly from court PDFs and agency press releases, and we keep it up‑to‑date with automated checks. We want the platform to stay free for everyone.