August 16, 2026 · Research expansion

Research updates — August 16, 2026 (2 items)

Claims summaries added: what each lawsuit alleges: Added a new 'About this case' section to case pages summarizing the plaintiff's original claims/causes of action as filed, sourced strictly from official dockets and complaints (never press coverage) and framed as party allegations, not court findings. Piloted on the 25 cases with status Closed: 17 written (9 from a direct read of the complaint or an order reciting it, 4 corroborated via a court's recitation or consistent independent indexing, 4 sourced only via motion papers or an indexed filing rather than the pleading itself). 8 cases in the pilot remain blocked by PacerMonitor/NYSCEF access failures, not confirmed to lack claims content; the site's 77 non-closed cases have not yet been researched for this field.

Claims summaries expanded to 57 of 102 cases: Follow-up to RU007's pilot: added claims/allegations summaries for 40 more cases via the research-case-claims skill, covering the 77 non-closed cases (11 from a direct read of the complaint/petition, 3 reused from an already-approved companion case's identical filing, 11 corroborated via a court's recitation or a docket entry plus a short verbatim excerpt, and 15 sourced only from a docket's cause-of-action code and party list with little-to-no factual narrative -- flagged as lower confidence on the case page). Also fixed a missing same_action_as_case_id data-quality link (C013/C054). 36 cases remain not independently locatable this pass (mostly the unreachable PA UJS portal for standalone Lackawanna County filings with no federal-court companion), and one case (C019) was deliberately held back pending manual resolution of a pre-existing contradiction with C055's recorded disposition.

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Sourcing confidence varies by case; the case page cites each summary's specific source. See the Sources and Methodology pages for the evidence-layer separation this maintains.

Sourcing confidence varies by case and is noted on each case page; several entries are flagged there as thinly sourced pending fuller access to blocked dockets.

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