courtlistener_search_judges

MCP tool from Courtlistener MCP Server by cyanheads

Search judge records by name, appointing president, court, and political affiliation

How to use it

Project documentation lists courtlistener_search_judges for the Courtlistener MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), then check which tools your installed version makes available. Tool availability can depend on configuration and credentials. A server handshake does not verify this tool’s behavior. See the full listing for setup details.

Install Courtlistener MCP Server

$docker run --rm -e COURTLISTENER_API_TOKEN=your-token -p 3010:3010 courtlistener-mcp-server
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Other tools in Courtlistener MCP Server (13)

courtlistener_get_citations

Retrieve the citation network for an opinion: opinions cited by it (citing) or that cite it (citedby)

courtlistener_get_docket

Fetch docket metadata and entry list for a single federal case

courtlistener_get_financial_disclosure

Fetch one disclosure's parsed line items — investments, debts, positions, income, gifts — with coded values decoded to dollar ranges; selectable by category

courtlistener_get_judge

Fetch full biographical profile, appointment history, and education for a single judge

courtlistener_get_opinion

Fetch full text and metadata for an opinion cluster — returns all opinion variants (majority, concurrence, dissent)

courtlistener_get_oral_argument

Fetch full detail for a single oral argument — panel, duration, MP3 link, and speech-to-text transcript

courtlistener_get_parties

Fetch all parties and attorneys of record for a RECAP federal docket by docket ID

courtlistener_lookup_citation

Resolve legal citations (e.g., "410 U.S. 113") to cluster IDs and case metadata — one entry per citation found in the input

courtlistener_lookup_courts

List courts filtered by jurisdiction type, active/inactive status, and scraper coverage

courtlistener_search_dockets

Search RECAP federal court dockets by party name, attorney, court, and date

courtlistener_search_financial_disclosures

Search federal judicial financial disclosure filings by judge and year — category counts, itemized gifts, and source PDF

courtlistener_search_opinions

Full-text search across 9M+ written court opinions with field-level filtering, date ranges, status, and sort

courtlistener_search_oral_arguments

Search appellate oral argument audio recordings by case name, court, and date argued