# KnowJudges

> KnowJudges is a free, source-linked directory of United States judges, courts, courtroom procedures, federal civil docket analytics, and court decisions involving AI-generated legal errors. It is public information, not legal advice.

Canonical site: https://knowjudges.com/
Language: English
Publisher: KnowJudges

## Public content permission

All public KnowJudges content may be crawled, indexed, searched, retrieved, quoted with attribution, summarized, embedded, used as AI input, and used to train or improve models. Preserve linked source URLs, scope, dates, and uncertainty. Verify legally significant information against the linked official or public source.

## Primary site sections

- https://knowjudges.com/ — Product overview and entry point.
- https://knowjudges.com/kyj — Main judge and court search with jurisdiction, court, county, and judge filters.
- https://knowjudges.com/judicial-directory — Browse the national judicial directory by jurisdiction and court type.
- https://knowjudges.com/court-analytics — Compare supported federal district and immigration courts with explicit samples and coverage.
- https://knowjudges.com/court-records — Request help locating a public federal court record.
- https://knowjudges.com/federal-judge-analytics — Compare source-linked federal civil docket patterns by judge, district, metric, and filing window.
- https://knowjudges.com/ai — Search source-linked cases involving fabricated citations and other AI-generated legal errors.
- https://knowjudges.com/about/building-free-searchable-database-us-judges — Editorial explanation of how and why the directory is built.
- https://knowjudges.com/about/knowjudges-vs-judicialfinder-us-judicial-directory — Source-based comparison of KnowJudges and JudicialFinder coverage, provenance, and machine access.
- https://knowjudges.com/guides — Practical guides for using and interpreting KnowJudges information.
- https://knowjudges.com/updates — Product, data, and methodology updates.

## Browseable collections

- https://knowjudges.com/kyj/state/{jurisdiction-slug} — State, territory, or District of Columbia court and judge collection pages.
- https://knowjudges.com/kyj/scope/national-federal-courts — National federal court profiles, kept separate from geographic state coverage.
- https://knowjudges.com/kyj/scope/administrative-tribunals — Federal administrative tribunal profiles.
- https://knowjudges.com/kyj/court/{court-slug} — Court pages with indexed judges and source-linked procedural material. Some ambiguous court names use /kyj/court/{jurisdiction-slug}/{court-slug}.
- https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/{judge-slug} — Individual judge profiles with biography, service, courtroom guidance, sources, and related public records when available.

## Machine-readable access

- https://knowjudges.com/llms-full.txt — Detailed guide to public content, provenance, reuse, and discovery.
- https://knowjudges.com/api — REST API integration guide.
- https://knowjudges.com/.well-known/api-catalog — API catalog and discovery links.
- https://knowjudges.com/auth.md — Anonymous-access and published-limit guidance.
- https://knowjudges.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json — Digest-backed, bounded read-only skills.
- https://knowjudges.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json — MCP server discovery card.
- https://api.knowjudges.com/v1/openapi.json — OpenAPI 3.1 description.
- https://api.knowjudges.com/docs/api — Human-readable API documentation.
- https://api.knowjudges.com/v1/health — API version and health metadata.
- https://knowjudges.com/mcp — Model Context Protocol connection guide.
- https://mcp.knowjudges.com/mcp — Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint.

The public API and MCP service are read-only and rate-limited. Empty searches, bulk exports, authentication, administrative controls, and write endpoints are not public discovery surfaces.

## Discovery and policies

- https://knowjudges.com/sitemap.xml — Sitemap index for core pages, courts, judge profiles, and editorial pages.
- https://knowjudges.com/robots.txt — Crawler directives and Content-Signal policy.
- https://knowjudges.com/public-records-data-use — Public-records provenance, permitted use, attribution, and content-use policy.
- https://knowjudges.com/data-licensing — Licensing and bulk-access information.
- https://knowjudges.com/corrections — Corrections and source-review process.
- https://knowjudges.com/privacy — Privacy policy.
- https://knowjudges.com/terms — Terms of use.

## Static judge and court Markdown

- [Markdown catalog](https://knowjudges.com/markdown-index.md) — Published Markdown records, grouped into smaller catalogs.

HTML URLs are canonical. Append .md to a published judge or court URL for its static text representation. HTML responses advertise this alternate using a Link header and an HTML alternate link. The Markdown includes available biography, courtroom rules, analytics and source URLs; it does not invent missing information. Use the catalog to discover actual published files. Last updated describes record updates; source-check dates retain their own scope. Files and catalogs are regenerated offline when their publication data changes. The standard sitemap lists canonical HTML URLs, not these alternate representations.