SoapBox Law · the public legal record

Caselaw, statutes, regulations, judges, and lawyer records — keyless, public-domain, source-linked. One front door over the law. Start with a case or a citation:

Looking for a statute? Parse a U.S.C. citation or search the CFR →

Browse by court

Find Supreme Court and Appellate/Circuit opinions by court. District (trial) courts are searchable through docket search →.

⚖ Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States — recent opinions (SCOTUS).

Circuit Courts of Appeals

1st Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

2nd Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

3rd Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

4th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

5th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

6th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

7th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

8th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

9th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

10th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit

11th Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

D.C. Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

Fed. Cir.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit

District (trial) courts are many — find them through docket search.

Cases

Search U.S. court opinions, or resolve a reporter citation like “347 U.S. 483” to the case record.

Dockets

Case filings & proceedings (PACER/RECAP) — the docket record, à la Justia dockets.

Statutes & Code

Parse a U.S.C. citation (“18 U.S.C. § 2261A”) to its official text, or search the Code of Federal Regulations.

Regulations

Recent rules, proposed rules, and notices from the Federal Register, by agency.

Privacy law — federal vs. Texas

Click a privacy topic to see the federal law, where Texas replaces or supplements it, and the cases interpreting each — a plain-language map.

Appeals & extraordinary writs

A pro-se ladder: appeal → reconsideration → post-conviction → cert → federal habeas → mandamus. Gated so you don’t burn a step, with deadlines and required fields.

Judges

Federal judge profiles — seats, appointments, opinion counts, and disclosure pointers.

Lawyers

Public attorney bar facts — license status, admission, discipline. No ratings, by design.

File a complaint

Where to go for legal aid, a bar referral, or to file a complaint with the right agency.

How this connects

Case files and judges are linked: a case record links the judge who can be looked up here, and a judge profile links straight to a search of the opinions they authored. The whole surface is jurisdiction-namespaced — the United States is jurisdiction #1, and paths can later take a /us/… prefix as other jurisdictions are added.

Frequently asked questions

Is SoapBox Law free to use?

Yes. SoapBox Law is keyless and free — no account, no paywall. It surfaces U.S. caselaw, statutes, regulations, judge records and lawyer bar facts from official public sources.

Where does the case law come from?

Court opinions come from CourtListener (Free Law Project) and the Caselaw Access Project (Harvard Law School Library); statutes from the OLRC U.S. Code and Cornell LII; regulations from the eCFR and the Federal Register. U.S. caselaw and federal statute are public domain.

Can I cite pages from SoapBox Law?

Yes. Every record links its official source of record, and each page carries a citation block. For legal authority, cite the source of record (the reporter citation, U.S.C. section, or Federal Register document) that the page links to.

Does SoapBox Law give legal advice?

No. SoapBox Law states the public record — case names, citations, statuses and official-source links — and never a holding-summary, a "good law / bad law" judgment, or legal advice. For advice, show this to your attorney.