# Case Law

> Skill `case-law` on Faro. 4 sub-skills.

Searches publicly available US court decisions and legal case law. Look up cases by topic, citation, parties, judge, or court, and retrieve the full text of opinions, case-level records, and procedural dockets. Returns verifiable citations and links to the original source so you can confirm every result.

**Category:** Knowledge & Reference  
**Tags:** case-law, legal, court-opinions, dockets, jurisprudence  
**Use when:** You need verifiable US case law to ground a legal citation, read a ruling, or pull a case record instead of trusting a hallucinated cite.  
**Not for:** Legal advice, foreign or international law, statutes and regulations, citation formatting, live court-filing purchases, or confirming a case is still good law.  
**Returns:** information — Returns case results or a single record with the case name, citations, court, filing date, and a courtlistener.com link to verify, plus the full opinion text when an opinion is retrieved. Not a downloadable file.

## How to run
Skills run through one gateway with your Faro token. Hand it an `intent` in plain language; Faro routes to the right sub-skill, runs it, and bills per call. Raw tools are internal plumbing and are not directly callable.

```
POST https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/case-law/run
Authorization: Bearer faro_<your_key>
Content-Type: application/json

{"intent":{"prompt":"Find cases about employment discrimination in federal circuit courts"}}
```

Or from the CLI:

```bash
pip install askfaro-cli && askfaro auth login
askfaro run case-law "Find cases about employment discrimination in federal circuit courts"
```

Full run reference: https://askfaro.com/llms/run.md — Agent recipe: https://askfaro.com/llms/skill.md

## Example requests

- Find cases about employment discrimination in federal circuit courts
- Read the full text of the majority opinion in this case
- Get the citations and case record for decision ID 2812345
- What is the docket number for this case?

## Sub-skills

### Search case law

Finds US opinions, dockets, judges, or oral arguments by topic, court, judge, or date.

**Cost:** ~2 credits / search (up to 5) — A single search request; pulling further pages of results costs the same per page.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/case-law/search.md

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### Read opinion text

Returns the full text and metadata of a single court opinion.

**Cost:** ~1 credits / opinion (up to 3) — A single opinion lookup by identifier.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/case-law/opinion.md

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### Get case record

Returns a decision's case name, citations, judges, and its grouped opinions.

**Cost:** ~1 credits / case (up to 3) — A single case-record lookup by identifier.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/case-law/cluster.md

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### Get docket record

Returns the procedural docket for a case, with case name, court, docket number, and assigned judge.

**Cost:** ~1 credits / docket (up to 3) — A single docket lookup by identifier.

**Details:** https://askfaro.com/llms/skills/case-law/docket.md

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On the web: https://askfaro.com/search/case-law