search_cases_by_business

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Cases with a COMPANY as a party — by business name. Use this, not `search_cases_by_party`, whenever the subject is an organization: an LLC, corporation, insurer, hospital, landlord, dealership or municipality. Party search requires a first AND last name, which a business does not have, so it cannot answer this at all. FAST — about 5-45 seconds. No CAPTCHA. Do not warn about a long wait. EVERY ROW NOW CARRIES `case_status`, with no `enrich` needed — so do not call `lookup_court_case` merely to find out whether a case is open or closed. The returned text is FINER-GRAINED than the four filter values: alongside "Pending" and "Disposed" you will see "Disposed - Voluntary Dismissal", "Disposed - Dismissal on Order of the Court", "Disposed - Clerk of Superior Court" — i.e. HOW it ended, not just that it did. So never test it with equality against the filter vocabulary (`status == "Disposed"` misses most disposed rows); match on a prefix, and quote the portal's own wording when you report it. TYPE THE NAME AS IT APPEARS, COMMA INCLUDED. The comma is significant and NARROWING: "FOOD LION, LLC" is a different, smaller search than "FOOD LION". Do not strip it, and do not replace it with a wildcard — advice to do that appears in the portal's help text but applies to a different search mode. WILDCARD: a trailing `*` is allowed and needs AT LEAST 4 characters before it. "WALM*" works; "WAL*" is rejected. Use it for a company whose exact registered name you do not know ("CAROLINA TOWING*"). THERE IS NO PARTY ROLE IN THIS RESULT, ON PURPOSE. The portal labels every row "Defendant" regardless of the truth — including cases the company FILED as plaintiff and criminal cases where it was the victim. NEVER say the business is the defendant. Read the side from `case_name` ("X VS Y" — the company's position in the caption is the real signal), or call `lookup_court_case` for the actual party list. THE 200-CASE CAP BITES IMMEDIATELY FOR ANY CHAIN OR INSURER. `results_truncated: true` means real matches are MISSING. Worse, `county` filters AFTER that cap, so a truncated county-filtered count is a LOWER BOUND, never a total — "11 cases in Wake" may be 11 of the 200 statewide the portal was willing to show. Only `case_status` and the file-date range narrow server-side. Say the list is incomplete instead of reporting a count as if it were complete. `matched_businesses` lists the distinct entity names actually hit. More than one means legally separate entities are mixed together ("FOOD LION, LLC" alongside "DELHAIZE AMERICA, LLC") — surface that rather than treating them as one company. Dates: ISO `YYYY-MM-DD` or `MM/DD/YYYY` — both accepted. These bound WHEN THE CASE WAS FILED, not when anything is scheduled. A year at a time is the most effective way to get a chain's cases under the 200-cap: 'FOOD LION' unfiltered caps out, but restricted to 2023 it returns 42 complete rows. Public record. Read-only. North Carolina (NC) only. Informational, not legal advice.