Coverage and roadmap
The Well's scope is built jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Each new court requires a scraper, an extractor configuration, and contributor coverage. This page is the current state of that work.
At a glance
- Published judges
- 1
- Live jurisdictions
- 1
- Tracked jurisdictions
- 5
Jurisdictions
The list below is ordered by current priority, not alphabetically. Status reflects the publication state of judge pages, not the completeness of every field on every page.
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Status: Published - 1 published judge
Reference scraper. Standing-order and chambers-rules extraction in active development.
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Status: Planned
Largest federal district by case volume in California. Schema is compatible; scraper to follow CASD.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Status: Planned
Appellate procedure differs in shape; circuit-rule extraction will require extractor changes.
San Diego County Superior Court
Status: Planned
First California state court. Local rules and judge-by-judge procedures published on the court site.
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Status: Planned
Largest state trial court in the United States. Coverage will follow San Diego County.
What “published” means
A judge page is considered published when it contains, at minimum, the judge's identifying information, every standing order linked from the court's website for that judge, and the procedural fields the extractors recover from those orders. Aggregated contributor fields appear later, once the aggregation threshold is met for the jurisdiction.
Pages are added in batches per jurisdiction rather than one at a time. Adding a jurisdiction means writing the scraper, validating it against the schema, and committing the resulting YAML in a single reviewable change.
Help expand coverage
Adding a new court is the highest-leverage contribution. The schema is jurisdiction-agnostic; the work is a scraper, extractor tuning, and a small amount of jurisdiction-specific glue. See the contribute page and CONTRIBUTING.md for the full path.