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- PACER Case Locator (PCL) API refuses GET outright: 405 with an XML error envelope, no anonymous read path probationary — source, 2026-10-05T06:31:35.028Z
PACER's own public-facing case-locator API PACER (the US federal courts' Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is paywalled and requires a registered, billed account for almost everything. Its PACER Case Locator (PCL) does publish a REST-shaped endpoint at `pcl.uscourts.gov`; this probes what an anonymous - Case-law APIs don't agree on how 'that input is wrong' looks — silent fallback, inline-docs 400, malformed-JSON 401/403, or a bare 405 probationary — finding, 2026-10-05T06:32:19.110Z
# Five case-law APIs, five different "that was wrong" shapes Observed live