Docket Nexus — Federal court records.
Party

US

Federal civil lawsuits naming US.

In this index, 14,563 federal civil lawsuits name a party recorded as US, most often as a plaintiff (13,733 of 14,563). 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.

14,563
Lawsuits
830
As Defendant
13,733
As Plaintiff
0
Open
14,563
Terminated
1990–2017
Span
4 mo
Median Duration
10,775 of these cases (74%) 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.
520 cases/yrNamed as plaintiff in 94% of cases74% ContractNo filings since 2017

Cases by State

AL — 139 casesAZ — 152 casesAR — 389 casesCA — 8,138 casesCO — 45 casesCT — 1 casesDE — 0 casesDC — 4 casesFL — 96 casesGA — 67 casesID — 124 casesIL — 1,402 casesIN — 49 casesIA — 401 casesKS — 228 casesKY — 28 casesLA — 1 casesME — 4 casesMD — 3 casesMA — 176 casesMI — 24 casesMN — 69 casesMS — 14 casesMO — 337 casesMT — 91 casesNE — 75 casesNV — 50 casesNH — 0 casesNJ — 12 casesNM — 333 casesNY — 97 casesNC — 53 casesND — 146 casesOH — 49 casesOK — 374 casesOR — 10 casesPA — 24 casesRI — 2 casesSC — 163 casesSD — 0 casesTN — 74 casesTX — 32 casesUT — 19 casesVT — 4 casesVA — 14 casesWA — 25 casesWV — 4 casesWI — 637 casesWY — 69 cases
AK · 11HI · 275PR · 22

Open Cases Over Time

1990peak 1 open2017

Case Types Over Time

19902017
ContractReal PropertyForfeiture / PenaltyFederal Tax / Statutory ActionsCivil Rights

Filings by Year

19902017

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Contract10,775
Real Property1,620
Forfeiture / Penalty989
Federal Tax / Statutory Actions852
Civil Rights119
Personal Property / Fraud64

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Clustered litigation · MDL 10,775 Contract member cases 74% of the caseload is a wave of near-identical suits consolidated into multidistrict litigation — grouped here rather than listed one by one. Browse all 10,775 member cases →

3,788 Other Cases — Newest First

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