# TheBotWire Court Opinions Feed

> TheBotWire Court Opinions Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves new US federal court opinions from Supreme Court, Second Circuit, Ninth Circuit, and Federal Circuit for legal and compliance agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/court/opinions
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-court-opinions-feed-e29228d5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fouNV7291iM5YeCmuHUSx

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 thebotwire-court-opinions-feed-e29228d5
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit opinions from the past 24 hours — up to 20 results — so I can review any new rulings relevant to our IP compliance work.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, real-time access to new US federal court opinions specifically from the Supreme Court, Second Circuit, Ninth Circuit, or Federal Circuit. It is purpose-built for legal and compliance agents that need to monitor judicial output on a schedule or search recent rulings by topic. Prefer it over general web search for reliable, structured opinion data from these specific courts.

## Known failure modes

- No opinions found in the specified freshness window returns an empty result set
- Invalid court type enum value returns a validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 returns a schema validation error
- Network or upstream court data source unavailability may return a 5xx error
- Malformed 'since' duration string may cause a parsing error

## How this service works

New US federal court opinions for legal and compliance agents: Supreme Court, Second Circuit, Ninth Circuit, Federal Circuit.

## Output

A list of recent federal court opinions including case names, court identifiers (scotus, ca2, ca9, cafc, govinfo), publication dates, and opinion content or summaries, filtered by court type, search terms, and freshness window as specified.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-court-opinions-feed-e29228d5/health.json
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