What we promise, and what we do not

By creating an account or using the service you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you are using it on behalf of a firm, you confirm you are authorised to accept them for that firm.

You tell us a case number, a department and a hearing date. From five court days before that hearing we read the county's published tentative-ruling calendar every three minutes between 8am and 6pm Pacific, seven days a week. When a ruling for your hearing appears, we email you its text, the department, the judge where the county publishes one, and the contest deadline we compute for that hearing. We keep checking after the first alert, because departments revise tentatives.

Specifically, and without hedging:

• We can only read what a court publishes. A court that posts late, posts nothing, posts somewhere we do not look, or changes the shape of its website is a case we cannot report on. We tell you when we could not read a court rather than reporting silence as “no ruling”.
• A tentative ruling is not a final order. It may be argued and it may change.
• The deadline we show is computed, not quoted. We calculate it from Code of Civil Procedure §135 and California Rules of Court 3.1308(a). Departments set their own cutoffs by local rule. Confirm it against the court's own posting.
• The one-word outcome is keyword matching, not comprehension. That is why the court's full text travels with every alert. Read the ruling, not our label.
• Delivery depends on email. Mail can be delayed, filtered or rejected by systems neither of us controls.
• Nothing here is legal advice, and using the service creates no attorney–client relationship.

• The accuracy of what you enter. A mistyped case number, the wrong department or the wrong date means we watch the wrong thing. We warn you when a published calendar does not contain your case, but we cannot catch every error.
• Keeping your own record of your hearings and deadlines. Treat our alerts as an extra pair of eyes, not the only pair.
• Your account credentials, and anything done through your account.
• Having the right to send case information to any additional address you nominate for copies.

One account per person. Keep your email address current — it is how alerts reach you. You can close your account at any time from Settings, which deletes everything we hold about you.

The service is currently free. There is no paid plan, no card on file and no billing of any kind.

We intend to charge for it in future. We will not begin charging you without telling you in advance and asking you to agree to the price and the terms first — and if you would rather not, your account carries on until you close it or we stop offering the free tier, whichever comes first.

Do not resell the service, use it to build a competing dataset, attempt to access another user's data, or automate it in ways that place load on the courts' websites beyond your own matters. We read public court pages politely and identify ourselves when we do; anything that jeopardises that access harms every user at once.

You can stop at any time by closing your account. We may suspend or end an account that breaches section 7, or if we stop offering the service — in which case we will give you reasonable notice so you can make other arrangements for any hearing you are relying on us for.

The service is provided as it is. We work hard to make it accurate and we say plainly when it fails, but we do not warrant that every ruling will be found, that every alert will arrive, or that a court will be readable when it matters.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including for fraud or wilful misconduct.

If these terms change materially we will update the date at the top and email account holders before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, and the state and federal courts located in California have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.