Sources and method

What is listed

Lawsuits and enforcement actions involving tech, data and AI companies: copyright over training data and outputs, antitrust and competition cases, data protection decisions and fines, data breach class actions, securities class actions and SEC actions, patent, trade secret, employment and contract disputes, and fights over who controls companies. Courts and regulators in the US, the EU and its member states, the UK and Asia.

How new cases are found

The list grows on every run. Every company in the companies.fru.dev registry is enrolled, and each day the ones searched longest ago are looked up on CourtListener for new federal dockets that name them. Every feed in the sources table (FTC, SEC, DOJ, CFPB, the European Commission, the UK CMA, EU data protection authorities and more) is read for releases that name a tracked company and announce an action. Two registry companies’ latest annual reports (10-K Legal Proceedings, on SEC EDGAR) are read each day, and each dated federal filing they describe is matched to its docket. New finds are marked Unverified until a person reads them.

Growth, shown as "+N in the last 30 days", counts only cases the daily and weekly runs found after 2026-09-25. The hand-checked seed and the backfill loads that finished that day are the starting point, and later seed, research or backfill loads never count as growth.

How new sources are found

Each run also tries a few sources the site does not have yet (regulator feeds, sibling fru.dev sites) and adds the ones that answer; every week, registry companies that file with the SEC are added as annual-report sources. A source that stops answering is marked failing, then dropped, and never silently forgotten.

How a case is checked

A federal court case is checked against its docket on CourtListener: the court, the docket number or filing day, and a party’s name must match. A regulator action is checked on the regulator’s own release or decision, which must name the company. A case known only from press reports is shown as Unverified.

Court cases

US federal cases come from the public docket (PACER) through CourtListener, the Free Law Project’s free RECAP archive. Significant entries (opinions, judgments, orders granting or denying motions, settlements, appeals, hearings held) become dated rows in each case’s history, linked to the entry. The next date is the nearest future date a recent entry sets; courts move dates, so it is shown as last scheduled, and a moved date is logged as a change.

How often

Every day: discovery, the feeds, two annual reports, and every case with a hearing or ruling in the next 14 days. Every Tuesday every open court case is re-read. CourtListener’s free API is rate limited: calls are spaced out and a run stops reading dockets when it is told to slow down.

History

Nothing is overwritten silently. Each filing and ruling is a dated row; each change to a case’s status, dates, outcome or amount is kept in the Changes log with its source. Cases are never deleted.

Laws being tested

Where a case applies a law tracked on Regulations (regulations.fru.dev), the case links to it.

Not legal advice

Cases from public court dockets (through CourtListener), regulators’ own releases and decisions, and companies’ annual reports on SEC EDGAR, found by a daily agent; each is checked against its docket or official page, and unverified ones are marked. The list grows as new cases are filed and new sources are found. Not legal advice. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners. Anonymous usage stats via Google Analytics. Read the docket entry or decision linked. Use Suggest a correction on any case.