# Court Delta Pro – Search NC Court Cases by Person Name

> Court Delta Pro – Search NC Court Cases by Person Name is a paid API for AI agents from mcp.courtdelta.com, paid per call via x402, $0.15/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches North Carolina court records for cases where a specific individual (by first and last name) is a party, returning case details and hearing dates via a live portal query.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp.courtdelta.com/x402/search-cases-by-party
- Price: $0.15/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/court-delta-pro-search-nc-court-cases-by-person-name-e780e5b5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_AO1I3C4io8tgkflBZZhch

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability court-delta-pro-search-nc-court-cases-by-person-name-e780e5b5
```

Example prompt: Can you look up court cases in North Carolina for John Michael Smith — search all counties and include both pending and disposed cases?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search NC court records for a specific individual identified by first and last name. Choose this over the business search endpoint when the subject is a natural person, not a company or LLC. Prefer this over the judgment index endpoint when you need full case listings and hearing dates rather than just money judgments or criminal sentences. Only applicable for North Carolina courts.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the name does not match any NC court record (not an error — genuinely no cases found)
- Timeout or slow response (15–50 seconds expected; do not retry aggressively)
- Returns nothing if queried for a company or organization name — use the business search endpoint instead
- Invalid or missing first/last name parameters cause request rejection
- County name typos may return no results or an error

## How this service works

Find North Carolina (NC) court cases and hearing dates for a PERSON by name. Both first and last are required. For a company, LLC, insurer or landlord use search-cases-by-business instead — person search cannot match an organisation and returns nothing rather than a worse answer. SLOW: a live portal query, 15-50s; allow a generous timeout and do not retry. Read-only, NC only.

## Output

Returns a list of matching court cases where the named individual is a party, including case numbers, case types (e.g. CR for criminal, CV for civil), file dates, current case status (Pending, Disposed, Closed, Reopened), and scheduled hearing dates. Results are sourced from a live NC court portal query and limited to North Carolina jurisdiction only.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "last",
      "first"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "last": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Last name. Required."
      },
      "first": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "First name. Required."
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 100,
       "description": "Max rows returned inline."
      },
      "county": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "NC county name, e.g. Wake. Omit to search all 100 counties."
      },
      "soundex": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "default": false,
       "description": "Fuzzy phonetic name matching."
      },
      "case_type": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Case-type filter, e.g. CR, CV, IF."
      },
      "case_status": {
       "enum": [
        "Pending",
        "Disposed",
        "Closed",
        "Reopened"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Case status filter."
      },
      "file_date_end": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Filed on/before. MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD."
      },
      "file_date_start": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Filed on/after. MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/court-delta-pro-search-nc-court-cases-by-person-name-e780e5b5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp.courtdelta.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp.courtdelta.com/llms.txt)