Lawsuit search API
Send a business name and state, and the response lists the lawsuits filed against the business in Miami-Dade County, Broward County and New York State courts, next to its Secretary of State record and UCC filings.
- Miami-Dade County, Broward County and New York State courts
- Court, case type, filing date, status and plaintiffs
- New cases sent to your system by webhook
Sample data. Business and party names are made up.
What each case includes
- Court
- The court and county the case was filed in.
- Case number
- The number the court gave the case, to find it on the court's own site.
- Case type
- The type of case, as the court lists it.
- Filing date
- When the case was filed.
- Status
- The case status, as the court lists it.
- Plaintiffs
- Who filed the case against the business.
Example request and response
POST /v1/lookups { "businessName": "Harbor Point Seafood LLC", "state": "FL" }
{
"status": "completed",
"courtCases": [
{
"court": "Supreme Court, Kings County",
"plaintiffs": ["MERIDIAN ROW CAPITAL LLC"],
"status": "Active"
}
],
"coverage": {
"browardCourts": { "status": "failed", "reason": "unavailable" }
}
}When a court can't answer in full
Every response says, for each court, whether it was searched. If a court's site is down, the court is marked unavailable instead of returning no cases, so a missing answer is never read as a clean record.
When a court lists more cases than could be read, the response says some may be missing. Broward, for example, shows at most 200 cases for a name.
New lawsuits after you fund
Watch a business through the API and choose how often to check it, from daily to every 30 days. New cases arrive by webhook, along with new UCC filings and changes to the state record. Read how business monitoring works.
Questions about the lawsuit search API
Which courts does the API search?
Miami-Dade County, Broward County and New York State courts. Cases filed in any other court, including federal and bankruptcy courts, are not included.
Can I search lawsuits without the rest of the report?
Court cases come back as part of a business lookup, together with the Secretary of State record and UCC filings, and the whole lookup counts once against your plan.
How do I hear about lawsuits filed later?
Watch the business. Each check flags cases that weren't there before and sends them to your system by webhook.
What happens when a source is unavailable?
The report marks that source as unavailable instead of showing an empty result, so a missing record is never mistaken for a clean one. Lookups where no source could be searched aren't charged.
Is the API included in every plan?
Yes. Every plan includes the API, and lookups made through it count against your plan the same way as lookups in the app.
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