DocketLayer Court Coverage
DocketLayer monitors 2,148 courts across the United States and Canada. Every covered court is listed in the table below with its current coverage status. To check coverage programmatically, call GET /v2/status — the courts array mirrors this table. For a searchable view by state and jurisdiction, see the Court Directory.
Coverage Status
Full
Full coverage means real-time docket access across all case types and filing categories that the court's public portal makes available. Queries return complete, current docket activity.
Partial
Partial coverage means live access with limitations — either to certain case types or to a defined subset of courts within a jurisdiction, depending on what each portal makes publicly available without restriction. Queries succeed and return current docket activity; the scope of that activity may be narrower than the complete court record.
Planned
The integration is built and the court appears in the DocketLayer directory, but queries are not yet open. A case lookup at a planned court returns a 422 error. To check coverage status before querying, call GET /v2/status — all courts, including those with planned coverage, appear in the courts array.
United States
US coverage spans all 94 federal district courts, 13 appellate circuits, 94 bankruptcy courts, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Court of International Trade. State coverage extends to general jurisdiction trial and appellate courts across all 50 states. DocketLayer accesses only courts whose public portals do not restrict programmatic access under their terms of service.
Canada
Ten Canadian courts carry full coverage: the three federal courts (Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, Tax Court of Canada) and seven provincial courts (Supreme Court of British Columbia, Court of Appeal for British Columbia, Court of King's Bench of Manitoba, Manitoba Court of Appeal, Court of King's Bench of New Brunswick, Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, and Court of Appeal for Ontario). The remaining active provincial and territorial courts carry partial coverage, reflecting the practical limits of each jurisdiction's public portal.
Exclusions
US Federal Courts
DocketLayer does not cover the Supreme Court of the United States, the US Tax Court, the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the military service courts, immigration courts (EOIR), or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its Court of Review.
US State Court Categories
Courts of limited jurisdiction — traffic, small claims, municipal, and justice of the peace; juvenile courts; sealed family and domestic relations proceedings; tribal courts; and courts without public electronic docket systems.
Canadian Courts
The Supreme Court of Canada, the Cour du Québec, and all provincial lower courts below the superior court level in any province or territory.
Query Limitations
DocketLayer retrieves docket metadata and filing activity for known cases — by court code and case number. We do not support search by party name, attorney, or keyword across the docket corpus, and we do not return document content such as PDFs, motion text, or exhibit attachments.