---
title: "Delete a document (owner-only) · 0 credits"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/v1/cases/{caseId}/documents/{docId}"
tags: ["Cases"]
---

# Delete a document (owner-only) · 0 credits

`DELETE /api/v1/cases/{caseId}/documents/{docId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://legal.nexusquantum.legal`
- URL: `https://legal.nexusquantum.legal/api/v1/cases/{caseId}/documents/{docId}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Deletes the Storage object + chunks + row. No `?confirm` (document granularity; reversible by re-uploading — friction proportional to the blast radius). The Bates numbering (doc_seq) of the rest is NOT renumbered.

## Path parameters

- `caseId` string, uuid, required
- `docId` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

{ ok: true, deleted: file_name }

## Other responses

- `403`: FORBIDDEN (not the owner)
- `404`: DOC_NOT_FOUND | CASE_NOT_FOUND

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/nexusquantum/apis/nexus-legal-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/nexusquantum/apis/nexus-legal-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/nexusquantum/apis/nexus-legal-api/revisions/4084d8d4eb0b?raw)