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GLO Law

MCP serverVerified domain · glolaw.orgRemote● LiveFree to try

Free U.S. legal research: court opinions, statutes, state regulations and corrections policies.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to mcp.glolaw.org. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http glo-law https://mcp.glolaw.org/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search — Case-name metadata search over the local CourtListener mirror. Punctuation-insensitive trigram match on the case name ("Brown v board of edu
  • fts — Keyword full-text search (BM25) over opinion body text in the local mirror. Keyword, not concept: matches the exact words given (case-insens
  • semantic_search — Semantic (vector) search over embedded opinion chunks: finds cases by concept or plain-language description when there is no fixed term of a
  • similar — Given one opinion id, returns other opinions whose wording overlaps it, ranked by keyword match (BM25 more-like-this). Keyword overlap only:
  • citation — Resolves a reporter citation "<volume> <reporter> <page>" (e.g. 347 U.S. 483) to the matching case cluster(s) in the local mirror, optionall
  • cluster — Full case (cluster) detail by cluster id: cluster metadata, member opinions and parallel citations. Metadata only; the opinion tool returns
  • opinion — Full text of one opinion by opinion id, plus metadata. The text is the best stored text extracted from the mirror (HTML stripped; body_sourc
  • citations — Given one opinion id, lists the cases it cites (direction=authorities) or the cases that cite it (direction=cited_by). Textual reference onl
  • parentheticals — Given one opinion id, returns the one-line parentheticals later courts wrote about that case, verbatim. A parenthetical is the later court’s
  • treatment — Later courts, in their own words, reporting that one case was overruled, abrogated, superseded, reversed or vacated. Takes a cluster id (the
  • brief_check — Checks the case citations in a document the user supplies (a draft filing, brief or motion) against this collection and court-reported negat
  • statute — Exact lookup of one statute section or one regulation section by citation, in a point-in-time snapshot of published law. Returns the text ve
  • statute_search — Keyword (BM25) search over the body text of statute sections and, in the default source, Kansas administrative regulations, in the same snap
  • statute_citing — Lists the opinions whose text cites one U.S. Code section. Federal only: no state statute-citation links exist, and a state citation returns
  • corrections_policy — Internal policies of a state department of corrections, or of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (state="bop", federal), as the department posts
  • deadline — Counts a deadline from a date the user gives, under a rule whose text is in GLO’s mirror, and returns every counting step beside that text.
  • sources — Returns GLO’s coverage statements as text, so each tool’s and each source’s limits can be read on request. With a tool name alone: that tool

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