Federal District

We recently made a change to the schema for both Class Action cases and involving Patent Invalidity. Previously, in Class Action cases, the API for a given case returned only the general class action finding, such as “Class Certification: Deny,” and not the specific findings associated with the overall decision of whether to deny or grant class certification. Consequently, the schema was modified so that Class Action cases now return the following specific findings if relevant:

Now that there are three different ways to query the Lex Machina API, knowing what aspects can be queried in each of the three is becoming a more complex task. This post is an attempt to put a lot of data on screen quickly with no real discussion. To see in depth discussions of each, look at the documentation in the developer portal for querying district cases, state and appeals.