Principles

These rules govern everything Repleader publishes. Most of them are enforced by code before a page can go live.

Every fact has a source

Every case fact, quote, citation, dollar figure and date on Repleader links to the court record, agency release or filing it came from. If we cannot source a fact, we do not publish it. Pages that do not carry enough sourced facts are not published at all.

Allegations are attributed

Complaints make allegations. We report them as allegations: "the complaint alleges", "plaintiffs claim". We report what public court records and official actions say, and we do not state or imply that anyone is liable or guilty unless a court has found so. When a case is dismissed, settled or reversed, the page says so.

Summaries

Summaries are drafted by software and checked by automated rules against the linked source. A summary is published only if every number and date in it appears in the source, every allegation is attributed, and every legal citation it contains is confirmed by a citation check. If a summary fails any check, the page shows the sourced facts alone.

Modeled numbers are labeled

Some numbers, such as the inertia score, are computed by Repleader rather than copied from a record. They are always labeled modeled and link to the method that produced them, with its version.

Not legal advice

Repleader informs. It does not represent anyone or give legal advice, and it does not answer questions about what a reader should do in their own situation. Talk to a lawyer about your own case.

Privacy

• No pages about private individuals. Judges are the only people with their own pages.
• In personal injury and product liability cases, an individual plaintiff is shown as "Individual plaintiff".
• Criminal, prisoner, family and immigration cases are out of scope and never collected.
• Sealed and restricted records are excluded, and we remove records that are later sealed or expunged.
• Social Security numbers, birth dates and individual plaintiff names are removed before any text is processed by software.

News is linked, not copied

For news coverage we show the headline, publisher, date and a link. We never copy or summarize an article we have not been permitted to read and reuse.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it and add a dated note to the page. Report an error or request a takedown.