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457c3f75c1108cb2 | opinion | us | Bob's Big Boy Family Restaurants, a Division of Marriott Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board |
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
This petition seeks review of a National Labor Relations Board (Board) refusal to apply its “contract-bar” rule. It requires us to determine the scope of the Board’s discretion in applying its own rules. Finding that the Board failed to justify its departure from prior announcemen... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380204 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-07-28T00:00:00 | {
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f2f90217cf7413db | opinion | us | Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. Cecil D. Andrus | 625 F.2d 861
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND, INC., a nonprofit New York Corporation, Sierra Club, Society for California Archaeology, Environmental Traveling Companions, Friends of the River and Californians for Preservation Action, Plaintiff/Appellants, v. Cecil D. ANDRUS, Secretary of the Interior of the Unite... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380206 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-07-31T00:00:00 | {
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00145f43a3261b1e | opinion | us | H. Mucugia Mwasi v. Immigration & Naturalization Service |
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge:
Humphrey Mucugia Mwasi, a native and citizen of Kenya who came to the United States in 1963 as a nonimmigrant student, appeals the denial of his application for suspension of deportation. We affirm.
We have withheld disposition of this case pending decision by the court in ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380210 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-15T00:00:00 | {
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8b7147c57671ea03 | opinion | us | State of Idaho v. Freeman, III | 625 F.2d 886
The STATE OF IDAHO et al., Appellees, and Claude L. Oliver, etc. et al., Appellees, v. Rear Admiral Rowland G. FREEMAN, III Administrator of General Services Administration, Appellee, and National Organization for Women et al., Applicant for Intervention-Appellant.
No. 79-4844.
Unite... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380211 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-15T00:00:00 | {
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f3980fc0e4f53f63 | opinion | us | United States v. Patrick Kevin Gibson |
RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge:
Appellant was convicted of the crime of interstate kidnapping. The evidence of guilt, including the testimony of the two victims, appellant’s confession, incriminating objects of physical evidence found in appellant’s possession, together with the testimony of two codefe... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380212 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-18T00:00:00 | {
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a1305134f9caab72 | opinion | us | United States v. Jesus Ramon Lopez |
WYATT, District Judge:
This is an appeal by Jesus Ramon Lopez (Ramon) from a judgment of conviction, entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, on one count of an indictment charging him and six others with conspiracy in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846 . The object ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380213 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-19T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
9a428d29e7882cb4 | opinion | us | Steve Mohn v. Marla Marie, Inc. |
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
The only substantial issue in this personal injury case is whether the failure of the trial judge to give a requested instruction was reversible error.
Steven Mohn was a fisherman whose duties required him to pilot a speedboat used in circling around schools of fish prelimi... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380214 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-20T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
87f2fe704cec6c7a | opinion | us | Jacques Louis Bachelier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service |
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
Jacques Louis Bachelier appeals from a final order of deportation. He also seeks review of the rescission in 1974 of his permanent resident status, one result of which was the deportation order presently before us.
1
Bachelier, a native and citizen of France, ente... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380215 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-08-20T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
23d6af524648ca08 | opinion | us | Weir v. United States | 625 F.2d 1012
Weir v. U. S.
78-3825
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Fifth Circuit
8/15/80
1
S.D.Miss.
2
AFFIRMED IN PART; VACATED IN PART AND REMANDED ***
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/380225 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca5 | 1980-08-15T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
7010770b03fc8a49 | opinion | us | Pattern Makers' Association of Detroit and Vicinity, Pattern Makers' League of North America, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board |
HARRY PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case is before the court on the petition of the Pattern Makers’ Association of Detroit and Vicinity (the Union) to review an order of the National Labor Relations Board issued against the Union on November 14, 1977, and reported at 233 N.L.R.B.
*268
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/378279 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca6 | 1980-06-05T00:00:00 | {
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5bd1fe256b171d4d | opinion | us | James C. Berry and Carlydia Berry v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
ORDER
In 1972 taxpayer was in the business of operating parking facilities at airports throughout the country. In 1968 he had entered into an agreement with the Jefferson County Airport, serving Beaumont, Texas, to operate a pay parking facility there. In the agreement, taxpayer’s company agreed to pay t... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/378280 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca6 | 1980-06-16T00:00:00 | {
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fe35ba870f3632ca | opinion | us | EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MASSEY-FERGUSON, INC., Defendant-Appellee |
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
This action arose from charges of employment discrimination filed by Ronald Leal and Raymond Vidales with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the “Commission”) in 1970. The charges alleged that defendant, Massey-Ferguson, Inc. (the “Company”), had failed to hire each charg... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/378281 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca7 | 1980-05-13T00:00:00 | {
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} | |
a15e0971a94374c5 | opinion | us | Sheryn Kautz Fietzer and Oward Kautz v. Ford Motor Company |
SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Ford Motor Company (Ford) appeals from a jury verdict finding the defendant eighty-five percent comparatively negligent for the injuries suffered by plaintiff Sheryn Kautz Fietzer when the Ford Mercury Comet which she was driving was struck from behind by an automobile d... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/378282 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca7 | 1980-05-13T00:00:00 | {
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"opinion_type": "010combined",
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"source_label": "courtlistener"
} | |
79854407b1290c2c | opinion | us | United States v. David John Sinn |
RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge.
Appellant was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute ( 21 U.S.C. § 841 (a)(1)) and of knowingly importing cocaine ( 21 U.S.C. §§ 952 (a) and 960(a)(1)).
Appellant was apprehended at the Los Angeles airport following a flight from Ecuador and ... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/378306 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca9 | 1980-02-19T00:00:00 | {
"cl_opinion_id": "378306",
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"text_kind": "html_with_citations",
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} | |
ca54bbb5a6beb86c | opinion | us | Roger v. Division of Adult Services | 636 F.2d 1214
Roger v. Division of Adult Services
80-6660
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Fourth Circuit
11/7/80
1
E.D.Va.
AFFIRMED
| cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/385404 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca4 | 1980-11-07T00:00:00 | {
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6da5a7230ba5b751 | opinion | us | Smith v. Farris | FILED
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
... | cl-bulk://2026-06-30/opinions/4104485 | public-domain-edict-of-government | 2026-06-30T00:00:00 | fed-appellate-ca10 | 2016-12-05T00:00:00 | {
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U.S. Courts of Appeals (all circuits + historical) Case Law
Code & tools: github.com/docketx — legal-scrambler pseudonymises a case file on your own hardware before a frontier model sees it; claude-for-legal is the Claude Code plugin (
docketx-open-law) that loads these datasets and checks citations against them.
Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
Every opinion in this dataset comes from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30 (10,798,347 opinions). CourtListener gathered, cleaned, deduplicated and published that record; Free Law Project — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We sliced and reformatted; they did the hard part. Go to the source: https://www.courtlistener.com.
Free Law Project is a non-profit, and it is worth supporting: https://free.law/donate/. If this data is useful to you, credit Free Law Project and CourtListener too, and consider going straight to the source: CourtListener runs its own API and MCP server.
Full text of 1,510,937 U.S. Courts of Appeals (all circuits + historical) appellate opinion documents from the public record, sliced from the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
Court coverage (126 court ids, explicit allowlist — never prefix-matched):
ca1, ca10, ca11, ca2, ca3, ca4, ca5, ca6, ca7, ca8, ca9, caca, cadc, cafc, circtcapefearnc, circtdal, circtdalb, circtdalbanyny, circtdar, circtdca, circtdco, circtdct, circtddc, circtdedenton, circtdel, circtdga, circtdia, circtdid, circtdil, circtdin, circtdks, circtdky, circtdla, circtdma, circtdmd, circtdme, circtdmi, circtdmn, circtdmo, circtdms, circtdmt, circtdnd, circtdne, circtdnewbern, circtdnh, circtdnj, circtdnv, circtdoh, circtdor, circtdpa, circtdpamptico, circtdri, circtdsc, circtdsd, circtdterrar, circtdtx, circtdut, circtdva, circtdvt, circtdwa, circtdwi, circtdwilm, circtdwv, circtdwy, circtedar, circtedil, circtedky, circtedla, circtedmi, circtedmo, circtednc, circtedny, circtedok, circtedpa, circtedsc, circtedtn, circtedtx, circtedva, circtedwa, circtedwi, circtmdal, circtmdpa, circtmdtn, circtmissterr, circtnc, circtndal, circtndca, circtndfl, circtndga, circtndil, circtndms, circtndny, circtndoh, circtndtx, circtndwv, circtnia, circtny, circtsdal, circtsdca, circtsdfl, circtsdga, circtsdia, circtsdil, circtsdms, circtsdny, circtsdoh, circtsdtex, circtsdwv, circttenn, circtwdar, circtwdky, circtwdla, circtwdmi, circtwdmo, circtwdnc, circtwdny, circtwdok, circtwdpa, circtwdtex, circtwdtn, circtwdva, circtwdwa, circtwdwi, ctappindterr, indcirct, uscirct.
Lead opinions and separate opinions; documents under 1 characters excluded.
Slice sha256 c38c4e3be54558605a6f8a20ec5608edd5bc191daa9e605b8dbaeeff20c5b0f0 (also in slice.manifest.json).
Composition
Measured on this exact slice: 1,127,314 documents (74.6%) carry 2,000+
characters of text, 308,617 (20.4%) carry 200-1,999, and 75,006
(5.0%) are under 200 characters. The short ones are real records, not errors: procedural
orders and one-line judgment entries. They are kept deliberately (min_chars = 1) so this is the
complete public record rather than a filtered subset. Filter on len(text) if you want only
substantive opinions.
Format
Rows follow docketx record v1 (one opinion per line): id, doc_type, jurisdiction, title,
text, source, license, retrieved_at, plus citation, court, date, and extra
(CourtListener opinion/cluster ids, opinion type). The same format is used across every
docketx dataset.
Provenance and license
Judicial opinions are edicts of government: uncopyrightable works of the public domain (Banks v. Manchester, 128 U.S. 244 (1888); Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 590 U.S. 255 (2020)). This packaging is released under CC0 1.0. Source: CourtListener bulk export (2026-06-30), Free Law Project — https://free.law. This dataset redistributes public-domain court text; it adds no annotation and asserts no rights.
Load it
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("docketx/us-caselaw-fed-appellate")
Part of the DocketRouter legal corpora: https://huggingface.co/docketx
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