Coverage

DocketLayer's federal coverage is built on PACER and the 184 court-hosted CM/ECF instances that sit behind it — 94 district courts, 90 bankruptcy courts, and 13 circuit courts of appeals. Each endpoint returns normalized docket data, party and counsel information, filing metadata, and document-level references. The API handles session management, court-specific HTML parsing, and the PACER fee model transparently.

Federal is the first system DocketLayer launched against. Live coverage begins with the highest-volume federal jurisdictions — the courts where securities, bankruptcy, patent, and major criminal matters concentrate — and expands systematically toward the full 184-court footprint. See federal coverage in detail for the current court list, data fields, and roadmap.

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More than 95% of US litigation is filed in state courts, where the technology landscape is extraordinarily fragmented. DocketLayer's state coverage is anchored by Tyler Technologies Odyssey — the case management platform deployed across more than 1,000 counties in over 30 states, covering roughly 55% of the US population. The API normalizes Odyssey data across jurisdictions so agents don't have to learn each state's schema individually.

State coverage rolls out in priority order, starting with the highest-volume Odyssey jurisdictions and expanding to additional states and to non-Odyssey state systems over time. See state coverage in detail for the current jurisdiction list and rollout sequence.

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International coverage spans four jurisdictions: CanLII for Canadian federal and provincial courts, UK Courts via HMCTS and its Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts, AustLII for Australia and New Zealand, and eLitigation for Singapore. All four share the characteristics that make agent-native monitoring viable — English-language proceedings, publicly accessible case data, and court structures that map cleanly onto DocketLayer's PACER-derived access model.

International rollout sequence follows demand signals and data accessibility. See international coverage in detail for jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction scope, and Jurisdictions for the broader framing of each legal system.

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Live coverage is where DocketLayer's service meets the court systems it connects to. Two things have to be working for a query to succeed: DocketLayer's own API has to be reachable, and the upstream court system — PACER, Tyler Odyssey, or any of the international platforms — has to be up and serving docket data.

Those two things are independent. DocketLayer can be healthy while PACER is offline for scheduled maintenance, which is a regular occurrence on weekends. The reverse is also possible. That's why the status endpoint shows both: DocketLayer's integration status for each jurisdiction, and the real-time reachability of the upstream systems behind them.

For developers building against the API, the status endpoint is the canonical source of truth. It's free, requires no authentication, and always reflects the live state — never a cached or scheduled view.

Current court list and API health: api.docketlayer.com/v1/status.