Frequently Asked Questions
Justia District Court Filings & Dockets is a free searchable resource that contains information on recently filed US Federal District Court civil cases. The Federal District Court filings are categorized by State, Federal District Court and Legal Practice Area, and include the presiding judge and cause of action information for each case.
The database includes over 1,000,000 Federal District Court civil cases filed since January 1, 2004, and is updated multiple times each day. There are some selected, high profile cases in the database from before 2004.
Your name may be listed in the database if you have been a party in a federal civil law suit.
The database contains public documents. Removing a document would hinder both the integrity of and the usefulness of the database so we do not remove filings. If you believe there is an error in the database, please use the form below to contact us and explain the situation. Please include the court, case number, party names, and date of the filing. Our dockets team will investigate.
The fastest way to contact the Justia Federal District Court Filings & Dockets Team is to use the form below. If you need to contact us by phone, our phone number is 650-810-1994.