Civic purpose
Supreme Court documents are written for lawyers and judges. SCOTUS Briefs helps anyone get oriented to a case, compare the parties' positions, understand a supported decision, and continue into the original record.
How guides are made
Software archives official Court PDFs, extracts page-aware evidence, and uses an AI model to draft plain-language sections. Automated checks require citations, preserve attribution, and prevent pending cases from being presented as decided. Only accepted guide records are published.
AI can still make mistakes. Each case page links its primary documents and identifies incomplete or source-limited sections. Readers should verify consequential details in those documents.
Independent and educational
This project is independent, is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and does not speak for the Court or any party. Its summaries are educational information, not legal advice.
Open record
The public source repository retains normalized case records, accepted guides, provenance, and immutable copies of archived PDFs. The PDFs are linked from case pages but deliberately excluded from this website's deployment artifact.