search_court_filings

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Search the TEXT of US federal court filings — complaints, motions, briefs, orders and exhibits from PACER as archived in RECAP, roughly 9.7 million documents. Use this to find what was actually argued or ordered in litigation ("trade secret misappropriation", a company named as a defendant, a specific contract term), as opposed to the appellate opinions that search_case_law covers. Returns the filing description as the clerk wrote it, the filing date, a matching text excerpt, a PDF link where the document is held, and the docket_id to read the rest of that case with list_docket_filings. Quote a phrase to search it exactly.