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From the courts' own feeds

Federal civil cases that just moved

District courts publish a public feed of new docket activity. CaseMagic reads those feeds directly and these are the civil cases that have appeared in them most recently — the case number, the caption as the court wrote it, and when the court reported it. Nothing here is summarised or inferred.

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Civil cases only. Criminal dockets are not published here: the people named in them are not who this is for, and an indexable page carrying their name would do harm for no reason.

What this list is not

It is not every case, and it is not every filing. Fifty-five of the ninety-four federal district courts publish a complete feed of new docket activity, twenty-six publish only certain kinds of entry, and thirteen publish none at all — so a case can move without appearing here. Every district, and what each one publishes.

It is also not a docket. A feed item carries the court's one-line label for what was filed and never the filing itself. To see the caption, the judge, the status and the entries with their real text, check the case.

Is one of these yours?

A case page shows the docket as of the last read. Watch keeps reading it on a schedule and emails you when a new entry appears, so the order, the motion or the deadline reaches you without another trip to PACER.

The 120 cases above moved in 43 districts within the last fortnight, the most recent on October 20, and each one moved without a word to anyone outside the service list. If yours is among them, Watch is the notice you were never sent.

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Questions people ask before they start

How do I check the status of a federal court case for free?

Type the case number from your papers into the check above. It reads the real docket from the court and shows the caption, the judge, the status and the entries with their real text, free, with no account and no PACER login. The list on this page is only the civil cases whose court reported new activity most recently.

Why is my case not in this list?

The list holds only the civil cases that appeared in the district courts’ own activity feeds most recently. Fifty-five of the ninety-four district courts publish a complete feed, twenty-six publish only certain kinds of entry, and thirteen publish none, so a case can move without appearing here. Criminal cases are never listed. The check above reads any case by its number regardless.

How do I get told when something is filed in my case?

Watch, on the Individual plan, reads the docket on a schedule and emails you when a new entry appears: the order, the motion or the deadline reaches you without another trip to PACER. Open the case from the check above and start watching it there.

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