John Hawkinson
John Hawkinson
DocketReport: handle 'Date Entered' option A PACER docket report can be run with either 'Date Entered' or 'Date Filed' dates. Previous code assumed, roughly, "A date is a date," but...
Fixes freelawproject/recap#248. Sorry this history is a little messier than it should be, but it's all going to be squashed so there's probably not much point in cleaning it up....
Some cases with "In Re:" -style dockets do not properly get parsed, because the case name is in the (nominal) parties section of the the HTML. For instance, this HTML:...
This is a narrow sub-issue of #223, but `feedparser`'s `published_parsed` date is a UTC tuple. Take this example of Paul Manafort's document from yesterday: ```>>> pprint(f.entries[34]) {'guidislink': False, 'id': u'https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/DktRpt.pl?190597&1345',...
For instance, if View Multiple Documents is checked, they move to the 3rd column: Which is notionally ```html Date Filed #
One of the most valuable features of the RSS feed that's not available to general PACER users (but is available to filing CMECF users) is the timestamps of events. Down...
Sometimes they're important. Today I wanted 16-P-1378: _Richard D. Fanning vs. Board of Zoning Appeal of Cambridge_. Doesn't show up. The Court publishes a PDF called "List of Unpublished Appeals...
In everyone's favorite case of the hour: ```html Waymo LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al Assigned to: Hon. William Alsup Referred to: Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley Magistrate Judge...
Given a hypothetical case `Fox v. Mohammed Mat Et Aliasing`, the `ET_AL` regexp: https://github.com/freelawproject/juriscraper/blob/c007905e622d752273460347ddc5539883a13770/juriscraper/lib/string_utils.py#L265 is too permissive and thus the `harmonize()` function turns it into `Fox v. Mohammed Matiasing`. While...
New electronic docketing system was introduced at the United States Supreme Court this week. Unfortunately it didn't seem to change much of their existing public-facing system, but we should scrape...