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More details…The oral argument audio in CourtListener has been collected from court websites by Free Law Project, a non-profit devoted to high-quality legal data. We began collecting these oral arguments after hearing that many courts were simply deleting them, claiming that they were too expensive to keep.
These audio files are an important part of the historical record, and we are delighted to collect them for students, historians, researchers, journalists, attorneys, and the public.
This work has been possible thanks to a grant from Columbia University Library, and a ton of volunteer support. If you find this work valuable, please donate or become a member so that it may continue and thrive.
We collect oral argument audio from the Supreme Court and all of the Federal Circuit courts that provide it. On the state side, we are slowly adding support for additional courts, and we are looking for support to add more. You can see all of the courts that we support on an ongoing basis on our coverage page.
Our collection of SCOTUS recordings goes back to 2013. Before that, we recommend the wonderful Oyez Project, which goes back to 1955.
For every jurisdiction that we support, we provide Podcasts automatically, so you can listen to the latest arguments from that court. It is also possible to create a Podcast from any search that you make, allowing you to make custom Podcasts with only the information you want to hear.
We enhance every audio file that we download so that if you download it from CourtListener it'll have great audio quality, metadata, and album art.
You can download our enhanced audio files from the sidebar of any oral argument webpage. If you want the original file, it's there too.
