CourtListener from the command line
US court opinions, dockets, judges and citations.
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US court opinions, dockets, judges and citations. GBrain gives CourtListener, and every other application you connect, a command line.
One price for one person: CourtListener and every other application GBrain connects, from a terminal or any AI. Cancel any time.
CourtListener is connected on its own sign-in page, in the browser. A key or a sign-in never passes through the terminal.
# AI agents: read gbrain.io/llms.txt curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash gbrainio terminal connect
The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.
# Every CourtListener command, once CourtListener is connected gbrainio tool help courtlistener
CourtListener is the Free Law Project’s legal research site, a nonprofit archive of millions of US court opinions, PACER dockets, judge profiles and oral arguments. Connected to a workspace, GBrain can answer “has the Ninth Circuit ruled on this question since 2020?” or check every citation in a draft brief against the record.
It can also set and remove alerts, so a team hears when a docket it follows moves.
Each terminal reaches CourtListener at the level set for it in the browser: Off, or On, which is every command CourtListener's server lists. A terminal reads its level and never raises it.
Each of CourtListener's commands stops at 1,000 actions a day on the account it reaches, whichever terminal or AI asks, and starts again at midnight UTC. Only that command stops.
Each command a terminal runs on CourtListener is a row on GBrain's activity log: which terminal, which account, what it did and whether it was allowed, refusals included. gbrainio activity ls --tool courtlistener reads it back.
CourtListener's own server lists its commands only to a terminal that has connected it, so they are not on this page. Once CourtListener is connected, gbrainio tool help courtlistener says what each of them does, and gbrainio tool ls lists them with everything else the terminal can run. Claude Code and Codex run the same commands, at the same level, on the same record.
GBrain reaches CourtListener at its own server, mcp.courtlistener.com. On CourtListener's own pages: its website, how the connection works, its terms of service and its privacy policy.
The GBrain Tools command line works with every other application GBrain connects, each with a page like this one.
Personal is $49 a month for one person. Connect CourtListener in the browser, and say how far each terminal and each AI may go with it. Change any of it, or take all of it back, whenever you want.