Court Rules is a free U.S. court rules search platform for legal teams and AI tools. Its core purpose is to find submission rules, judge orders, and deadlines at the federal and state judge level, and to organize these rules scattered across PDFs into searchable structured content.
Main capabilities include: searching judge rules, court rules, standing orders, and local rules; searching by judge, court, or rule topic, or directly asking the system about a judge's rules. Each rule links to its source official court document for verification before filing. The platform includes the individual practice rules of many judges known for detail, such as Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York, Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury of the Eastern District of New York, Judge Anne Hwang of the Central District of California, Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California, Judge Franklin L. Valderrama of the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Esther Salas of the District of New Jersey, and others.
The platform also supports comparing the same rule across courts and judges. Common topics include: page and word limits, copy requirements, pre-motion conference requirements, document formatting requirements, sealing and redaction procedures, and electronic filing rules. Federal courts are organized by circuit, covering the First through Eleventh Circuits and the District of Columbia; state courts cover Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and other states.
In terms of use, the website is free and requires no registration, and users can directly search rules and view court and judge pages. The platform provides deadline calculators, including a federal deadline calculator (based on federal rules and accounting for federal holidays) and a court-day calculator; provides recess calendars for federal and state courts; and also provides privacy enforcement data, collecting privacy fines and settlement events from agencies such as the FTC, HHS (HIPAA), and state attorneys general, including entity, fine amount, violation type, cited law, remedies, and links to official government sources.
For developers and AI tools, Court Rules provides an MCP server (mcp.courtrules.app) and a REST API (api.courtrules.app). MCP is compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Codex CLI. In Claude Code, it can be connected via the command claude mcp add --transport http court-rules https://mcp.courtrules.app/mcp and log in as prompted. Users can log in with Google or email at console.courtrules.app. When an AI tool connects for the first time, keep it logged in after opening that page; scripts and the REST API use the API key on the dashboard, and the key does not expire. The API can also be used to upload PDF files and specify a judge, automatically classify document type, count pages and words, and check the judge's applicable rules one by one, returning pass/fail/action-required results and specific limits.
Regarding limitations, the platform clearly states that it does not constitute legal advice, and users must verify with official court sources. Rule sources include federal district courts, judge procedure pages, state court resource pages, local trial court pages, and court holiday calendars. Federal judges' individual rules, standing orders, and filing requirements are all traced to the specific page and section of the source PDF. Privacy enforcement events usually appear within 24-48 hours after government announcements, and sources are checked daily. More details regarding fees, pricing, and similar matters are not provided in the materials.