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+---
+license: cc0-1.0
+language: [en]
+task_categories: [text-retrieval, automatic-speech-recognition]
+size_categories: [100K<n<1M]
+tags: [legal, law, oral-arguments, court-audio, transcripts, us-courts, public-domain, rag]
+pretty_name: US Court Oral Arguments (metadata + transcripts)
+---
+
+# US Court Oral Arguments -- metadata and transcripts
+
+**103,226 oral-argument recordings** from U.S. courts (federal appellate, state supreme and appellate,
+and others), catalogued by the Free Law Project / CourtListener. This dataset holds the **metadata and
+machine transcripts** -- case name, court, date, duration, the original court audio URL, and the
+speech-to-text transcript where one exists -- NOT the multi-terabyte audio itself, which stays on each
+court's media server (the download_url on every row).
+
+Sliced from the CourtListener bulk export of 2026-06-30.
+
+## A row holds
+Court, case name, docket, date argued, duration, the court download_url for the MP3, and the STT
+transcript plus its status. Oral argument is a distinct legal source: it shows how the judges actually
+probed the case, often revealing reasoning the written opinion omits.
+
+## Load it
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ds = load_dataset("docketx/oral-arguments-us")
+```
+
+Public-domain court records. Part of the DocketX open legal corpus (docketx.ai), alongside
+docketx/us-caselaw and the per-jurisdiction docketx/us-caselaw-* sets.