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## Court and case-law APIs: access posture is set per host, not per "court"

- CourtListener v4 splits its own surface: `/search/` and `/courts/` are keyless, `/opinions/`, `/dockets/`, `/recap-documents/` are 401, search is cursor-only, and `v3` search is 403 for anonymous callers — while the bare API root is itself a keyless, self-describing index of every resource including the ones that then refuse [obj_01M3RG5N92FN38YNZYJMXXYMVT, obj_01M4V8S7A8T9YVB690XRVK8MD2]. PACER's Case Locator refuses GET outright with a 405 XML envelope, with no anonymous read path at all [obj_01M45C5DH6ACN6YVC2CZ8ZW8XF]. GovInfo's USCOURTS collection accepts the shared `DEMO_KEY` at 10 requests/hour [obj_01M45C4ZDHSS8NRM7T6YWZVPHQ].
- Case-law APIs collectively disagree on bad-input shape (silent fallback, inline-docs 400, malformed-JSON 401/403, or a bare 405) [obj_01M45C6RN54604GFNF7ZRQA7ZW] and are increasingly gated behind managed challenges that arrive under four different status codes [obj_01M45C6PXRJC7YRDYV8DJR9M44]. Across legal/registry identifiers generally, "not found" is spelled six different ways: UK 400, EUR-Lex Cellar 404 text, GLEIF 404 HTML vs. 200-empty, CourtListener 401/403 depending on version, Australia 400 text/text, Canada 404 HTML [obj_01M3RG6Z6FV6TC57XAA259WQHD].

## Statute and legislation text: point-in-time is never simple

- legislation.gov.uk selects format by path suffix or `Accept` header, silently clamps point-in-time dates forward, 404s before commencement, and gives HTTP 400 (not 404) for a nonexistent act [obj_01M3RG4ZZTR7V7K96H0HD0QXJF]; its own "revised" version carries a standing disclosure that some changes aren't yet applied [obj_01M4RZDYASC39J360EK8FQDDHE]. The Online Safety Act 2023 alone commenced across at least 17 separate dates over nearly three years, per that same site's own commencement data [obj_01M4RZE0E20MKFMZEQHFVXK981].
- legislation.gov.au's human page is an Angular shell; the real point-in-time text lives in a separate plain-GET EPUB document [obj_01M4V8SH3VEBBNRS9W5PE5KYKG]. legislation.govt.nz answers every path — API, XML, or human page — with an HTTP 202 AWS WAF challenge and an empty body, regardless of User-Agent [obj_01M45MXXB1CQ621GPFRWPTZVQ0]. Among five US state statute sites checked live, three distinct postures appear for the identical job: plain-GET text (Massachusetts), a UA-inverted WAF challenge, and a moved/dead legacy path [obj_01M4V8TH5VPMCG2K6T4RYK37TD]. A dedicated procedure record walks through how to retrieve the text of a law as it stood on a past date [obj_01M4RZ1TSYWXWTEX581TDS1WBD].

## Federal regulation: one shared gateway, disagreeing currency

- eCFR's "current" text and GovInfo's official CFR annual edition disagree on what's in force today for titles 7 and 42 [obj_01M4RZD9ZF55MHQA7H47GDKXM4]. A synthesis of seven live observations finds three independent structural reasons "is this provision in force today" has no single US-federal answer: the annual edition is staggered and was, on 2026-10-12, already 11 days overdue for the October-1 title group; eCFR's `latest_amended_on` postdates the GovInfo edition for the same titles; and even eCFR's own metadata splits "last issued" from "last amended" [obj_01M4RZFW5WTQBRBZMYG00DN62V], a staleness that shows up directly in the GovInfo edition record itself [obj_01M4RZD6MMDPQGP2CGJCRD4A1K].
- regulations.gov, Congress.gov, and GovInfo all accept the same undocumented `DEMO_KEY`, each capped at `x-ratelimit-limit: 10` on the shared api-umbrella gateway [obj_01M4V8TAAQXZ71AD5QM9BX30ZT]; GovInfo's own keyless case is 401, not api-umbrella's documented 403 [obj_01M3RAJBKMTMCFF5DYE52GYEK2].

## Disagreements and open questions

- api-umbrella's own developer manual names exactly 8 error codes as the fixed contract any member agency "may return," each pinned to one HTTP status — but this corpus's own prior cross-agency observation already shows the identical `API_KEY_MISSING` code arriving as 403 on four agencies and 401 on GovInfo, a status the manual never lists for that code, with USPTO's ODP not even using the contract's vocabulary [obj_01M45QS43N8Z6RDQE9HQ1F5D5G]. Whether this is intentional per-agency override or an unflagged bug in the shared gateway is not resolved by the record.

## Possibly stale

- obj_01M4RZD6MMDPQGP2CGJCRD4A1K documents that, on 2026-10-12, titles 42/49/50 of the CFR annual edition were still on the 2025-10-01 edition, 11 days past their own nominal cutoff with no 2026-10-01 package yet published — a gap that may already be closed by the time this digest is read. Records range from 2026-09-30 to 2026-10-12, all within the last month.

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