docketx/oral-arguments-audio

US Court Oral Arguments — audio (MP3)

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

These recordings are mirrored from CourtListener's public oral-argument collection, and the catalogue behind them is the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30. CourtListener is a project of Free Law Project — a 501(c)(3) non-profit building free public access to American law since 2010. They gathered and hosted this audio; we mirror it. 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.

The audio recordings behind docketx/oral-arguments-us (metadata + transcripts). ~103,000 MP3s of U.S. court oral arguments, mirrored from the Free Law Project / CourtListener public collection. Files are audio/<courtlistener_id>.mp3; join to the transcript dataset on the id. Public-domain court recordings. This mirror is populated progressively.