case-law-research

Use this skill whenever a matter needs LIVE legal research — case law, dockets, judges, or law outside the snapshotted corpora — via the bundled free CourtListener and Legal Data Hunter MCP servers, never from memory or generic web search. Triggers include "find case law", "cases on point", "is there precedent for", "what did the court hold in", "look up this opinion", "verify this citation", "is this case real", "cite-check", "is this still good law", "shepardize", "negative treatment", "who cites this case", "check the docket", "PACER", "RECAP", "research the judge", "oral argument recording", "foreign law", "law in [country]". Routes U.S. case law and dockets to CourtListener, non-U.S. and multi-jurisdictional law to Legal Data Hunter. Cardinal rule: never cite a case from memory — quote-check every holding against retrieved text.