Docket Nexus — Federal court records.
Party

US

Federal civil lawsuits naming US.

In this index, 14,721 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as US, most often as a plaintiff (13,764 of 14,721). These may be different parties who share the name; records here are grouped by name only. These cases are most often Contract and Real Property matters, filed between 1990 and 2017, most frequently in District Court, N.D. California.

14,721
Lawsuits
957
As Defendant
13,764
As Plaintiff
0
Open
14,721
Terminated
1990–2017
Span
4 mo
Median Duration
10,793 of these cases (73%) are Contract filings — large waves of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation (MDL) proceedings. The totals and the year chart reflect that concentration, not typical caseload.
526 cases/yrNamed as plaintiff in 93% of cases73% ContractNo filings since 2017

Cases by State

AL — 139 casesAZ — 161 casesAR — 398 casesCA — 8,141 casesCO — 46 casesCT — 1 casesDE — 0 casesDC — 4 casesFL — 96 casesGA — 67 casesID — 126 casesIL — 1,444 casesIN — 51 casesIA — 404 casesKS — 238 casesKY — 29 casesLA — 1 casesME — 4 casesMD — 3 casesMA — 176 casesMI — 24 casesMN — 75 casesMS — 14 casesMO — 341 casesMT — 97 casesNE — 76 casesNV — 52 casesNH — 0 casesNJ — 13 casesNM — 345 casesNY — 99 casesNC — 53 casesND — 147 casesOH — 49 casesOK — 379 casesOR — 10 casesPA — 24 casesRI — 2 casesSC — 163 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 79 casesTX — 32 casesUT — 19 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 14 casesWA — 26 casesWV — 4 casesWI — 647 casesWY — 83 cases
AK · 11HI · 281PR · 22

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 1 open2017

Case Types Over Time

19902017
ContractReal PropertyForfeiture / PenaltyFederal Tax / Statutory ActionsCivil Rights

Filings by Year

19902017

1,673 Cases — Newest First

Showing 51–100 of 1,673