If you want to search federal court filings, there is PACER. You need to set up an account and give them a credit card, but it's pretty easy to use once you are in it. Searches are 10 cents or something like that, and then they charge you 10 cents a page for the documents you actually retrieve, with a cap of $3 per document.
As for state court filings, that varies by state. IME, most states leave it up to the county courts to organize. Some counties have online searching and some do not.
Post by StrawberryBlondie on Oct 1, 2014 18:19:33 GMT -5
Even with pacer, I don't think it searches the underlying pleadings, just the face of the docket. I'm guessing the chances of the drug referenced on the docket itself is pretty slim. You'd probably need to search the complaints themselves, and Westlaw is generally the largest collection. Not sure about Lexis's or Bloomberg's coverage.
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Post by StrawberryBlondie on Oct 1, 2014 19:18:23 GMT -5
Just to reiterate - you will not get a list of every case out there. You will get a list of whatever Westlaw or Lexis or whatever has that meets your search criteria. Neither has everything from every court ever.