`federal_civil_search`

Pack: federal-civil · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/federal_civil_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

US federal civil court cases matching a keyword search, from the federal courts’ case data.

Tool description as the model sees it

Find US FEDERAL CIVIL LAWSUITS by party name. Searches federal district court civil dockets, no API key — contract disputes, civil rights, employment, product liability, ERISA, social security appeals and prisoner petitions. Returns case caption, docket number, district, filing and termination dates, assigned judge, and the nature-of-suit code where the court recorded one. Use for “is this company being sued in federal court” and litigation exposure checks. A party search also runs a live, token-less CourtListener search for anything filed after the snapshot_date the bulk data carries and merges it in, so a suit filed last week is found; those rows are marked coverage:“live” and carry the full party list, which catches a derivative suit captioned against officers rather than the company. A case REMOVED from state court carries a removed_from object giving the originating state court and its state docket number, so the state and federal records can be linked — a removal is otherwise invisible on a federal docket, whose cause code describes the federal statute invoked rather than where the case came from.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`party`	string	yes	Party name or a distinctive part of it, e.g. “Monsanto”.
`court`	string	no	Optional federal district id, e.g. “cand”, “nysd”, “ilnd”.
`filed_after`	string	no	Only cases filed on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`filed_before`	string	no	Only cases filed on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`limit`	number	no	Maximum dockets to return (1-50, default 10).
`check_removal`	boolean	no	Look up which state court each case was removed from (default true). Set false to skip one upstream request per call when you do not need it.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "party": "Monsanto",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-civil/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"federal_civil_search","arguments":{"party":"Monsanto","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('federal_civil_search', {
  "party": "Monsanto",
  "limit": 5
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the federal-civil pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-civil": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-civil/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

federal_civil_search