Look up a case or citation (read-only, no side effects)

Future hearings only, sorted chronologically (soonest first).

Recently-elapsed hearings (already occurred), most-recent-first, capped at 10. Use to answer 'did I miss court?': upcomingHearings empty + pastHearings non-empty means a hearing has already passed — the opposite conclusion from a case with nothing scheduled.

Service of process on civil / special-proceeding / estate cases — the civil counterpart to bailRisk. NULL on criminal and traffic cases, where service of process does not apply (they proceed by citation or warrant); null there means NOT APPLICABLE, not 'not served'. Read status first — three values mean a missing return is EXPECTED and must never be reported as 'not served': 'served'/'unserved'/'mixed' (a return of service is docketed; 'mixed' = both outcomes, i.e. several defendants or the alias-and-pluries retry cycle), 'proven_other' (certificate/affidavit/acceptance of service instead of a formal return — still proof), 'appeared_service_moot' (defendant answered or appeared, waiving any service defect), 'not_required' (appeal or petition — no summons is issued), 'pending' (summons went out recently, nothing back YET — say service is outstanding, NOT that they weren't served), 'unknown' (summons issued, nothing returned, case not new). Also: summonsIssued, anyServed, anyUnserved, returns[] (full history — the retry cycle is often the story) and latestReturn ({date, outcome, party}). returns[].party is NULL about a third of the time because the docket records the outcome without naming who it applied to — never read a null party as 'nobody'. There is deliberately NO per-defendant served flag: one sampled case had a single docketed return against 41 defendants. legacyScan:true means the paper file was scanned as one bundle rather than itemised, so proof may sit inside that PDF where no docket-text rule can see it — a missing return is weak evidence there.

Claims pleaded — the civil counterpart to charges. Each item: cause (e.g. 'CV - Unfair Trade Practice'), filedOn (MM/DD/YYYY; can post-date the case when a claim is added later), remedy (e.g. 'Action'). On a civil / special-proceeding / estate case this is usually the ONLY statement of what the matter is about, since charges is criminal-only and empty there. EMPTY MEANS THE DOCKET DOES NOT ITEMISE CAUSES, not that no claims exist — do not imply the case is about nothing. Repeated boilerplate rows are collapsed; distinct filed dates are preserved because a cause added later is an amendment, not a duplicate. Capped at 25.

Eligibility signal (plain data): non-null only for open cases, where url is the case-alert subscribe link and eligible is true. Whether/when to surface it is governed by the tool description, not this field.

Register-of-actions party roster (public court record) — the authoritative source for entity resolution, especially on civil/SP cases where the caption and DOB are absent. Each item: name, roles[] (connection types, e.g. 'Defendant', 'Plaintiff', 'Fiduciary', 'Surety'), attorneys[] ({name, appointment} — appointment is how counsel came to the case; observed values are 'Retained', 'Court Appointed' and 'Public Defender', learned from the register rather than a closed enum, and null when unstated. 'Retained' means the party hired them, which reads very differently from appointed counsel), selfRepresented (bool), and counselWaived (bool). selfRepresented:true = no counsel of record (self-listed as own attorney OR a filtered counsel-absence sentinel, with no other attorney); by itself it does NOT distinguish an active pro-se appearance from a defaulted / served-by-publication defendant, EXCEPT where counselWaived is true. counselWaived is set by either Odyssey placeholder 'attorney' name, filtered out of attorneys[] rather than shown as counsel: 'WAIVED, WAIVED' (counsel affirmatively waived on the record — the docket does not record which waiver was taken, all assistance of counsel vs. court-appointed counsel only) or 'PRO SE' (the party asserted as their own representation). Either means the party declined counsel rather than merely lacking it, but the flag does not say which placeholder produced it, so it is not proof of a pro-se appearance. It is NOT a subset of selfRepresented and is NOT a claim that the party is unrepresented — it can be true while attorneys[] is non-empty (observed on 22CR702455-520: counselWaived true with both a Court Appointed and a Retained attorney, the docket showing appointed counsel then a Waiver of Counsel then retained counsel). Always read it alongside attorneys[], never instead of it. counselWaived:false means NOT OBSERVED (not 'did not waive'). A true value is predominantly a criminal-side artifact and is rare on civil rosters — treat it as unexpected but NOT impossible on a non-criminal caseCategory. A false unrepresented party is still any of defaulted / never-served / unappeared-entity / pro-se-without-a-docketed-marker — or simply TOO EARLY: on a recently-filed case that has not had a hearing yet, counsel is frequently not entered on the roster. This list reflects what is DOCKETED, not who is retained; check filedOn and an empty pastHearings before reading an empty attorneys[] as unrepresented ('not shown yet' is usually the better answer on a pending case that has not been to court). attorneys[] non-empty ⇒ represented ⇒ selfRepresented is false. Empty array when the case has no parties.

Court documents filed on the case, newest first (capped at 25). Each item: date (MM/DD/YYYY of the register entry), name (the register entry description — that IS the document's name, e.g. 'Bond Forfeiture Notice', 'Release Order Issued', 'Waiver of Counsel'), and url (a Tyler DocumentViewer link — durable, unlike portal_session_ref). Empty when nothing is scanned in; roughly 87% of criminal cases carry at least one. RETRIEVAL IS UNRELIABLE and that is the portal's behaviour: the same URL has returned 200, 403, 200 and an empty body across four attempts, and some documents answer HTTP 202 with no body while the portal prepares them. Offer these as links that may need a retry — never state that a document opens, and never claim to know its contents.

Per-charge disposition outcomes (from the Register of Actions DispositionEvents) — the 'what actually happened' behind a caseStatus of 'Disposed', which a bare status omits. Empty on pending/undisposed cases. Each item: offense (the charged offense), party (the defendant it applies to), plea (e.g. 'Guilty', 'Not Guilty', 'Responsible to Lesser', 'No Plea'), disposition (the outcome, e.g. 'Dismissed', 'VD-District Dismissals ... Per Plea Agreement', 'District Responsible - Judge'), sentence (e.g. 'Fine', 'Prayer for Judgment'; null when none entered), dispositionDate, judge, and documentUrls[] (judgment/disposition PDFs — same unreliable-retrieval caveat as documents; may 202/403 and need a retry, never promise one opens). A speeding charge pled down shows here as the reduced offense with plea 'Responsible to Lesser'.